Du, Y. J. A.; Ismer, L.; Rogal, J.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Drautz, R.: First-principles study on the interaction of H interstitials with grain boundaries in alpha- and gamma-Fe. Physical Review B 84 (14), pp. 144121-1 - 144121-13 (2011)
Ismer, L.; Ireta, J.; Neugebauer, J.: A density functional theory based estimation of the anharmonic contributions to the free energy of a polypeptide helix. Journal of Chemical Physics 135 (8), pp. 084122-1 - 084122-7 (2011)
Ismer, L.; Ireta, J.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles free energy analysis of helix stability: The origin of the low entropy in pi-helices. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112, pp. 4109 - 4112 (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio concepts for an efficient and accurate determination of thermodynamic properties up to the melting point. Calphad XXXIX, Jeju Island, South Korea (2010)
Aydin, U.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Chemical trends of the solution enthalpy of hydrogen in 3d transition metals in dilute limit, derived from first principles. DPG Frühjahrstagung 2010, Regensburg, Germany (2010)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Computing Ab Initio Free Energy Contributions of Point Defects. 139th Annual Meeting of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), Seattle, WA, USA (2010)
Aydin, U.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Chemical trends for the solution enthalpy of hydrogen in 3d transition metals. Computational Materials Science on Complex Energy Landscapes Workshop, Imst, Austria (2010)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio up to the melting point: Efficient sampling strategies of anharmonic free energies. Computational Materials Science on Complex Energy Landscapes Workshop, Imst, Austria (2010)
Friák, M.; Sob, M.; Kim, O.; Ismer, L.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio calculation of phase boundaries in iron along the bcc-fcc transformation path and magnetism of iron overlayers. Seminar at the Department of Materials Physics at Montan Universität Leoben, Leoben, Austria (2009)
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
The project Hydrogen Embrittlement Protection Coating (HEPCO) addresses the critical aspects of hydrogen permeation and embrittlement by developing novel strategies for coating and characterizing hydrogen permeation barrier layers for valves and pumps used for hydrogen storage and transport applications.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
In this project, we work on a generic solution to design advanced high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with enhanced magnetic properties. By overturning the concept of stabilizing solid solutions in HEAs, we propose to render the massive solid solutions metastable and trigger spinodal decomposition. The motivation for starting from the HEA for this approach…