Nazarov, R.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio study of H-vacancy interactions in fcc metals: Implications for the formation of superabundant vacancies. Physical Review B 89 (14), 144108 (2014)
Glensk, A.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Breakdown of the Arrhenius law in describing vacancy formation energies: The importance of local anharmonicity revealed by Ab initio thermodynamics. Physical Review X 4 (1), 011018 (2014)
Neugebauer, J.; Hickel, T.: Density functional theory in materials science. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science 3 (5), pp. 438 - 448 (2013)
Ouyang, Y.; Tong, X.; Li, C.; Chen, H.; Tao, X.; Hickel, T.; Du, Y.: Thermodynamic and physical properties of FeAl and Fe3Al: An atomistic study by EAM simulation. Physica B-Condensed Matter 407 (23), pp. 4350 - 4536 (2012)
Schick, M.; Hallstedt, B.; Glensk, A.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Hampl, M.; Gröbner, J.; Neugebauer, J.; Schmid-Fetzer, R.: Combined ab initio, experimental, and CALPHAD approach for an improved thermodynamic evaluation of the Mg–Si system. Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry 37, pp. 77 - 86 (2012)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Körmann, F.; Neugebauer, J.: Advancing density functional theory to finite temperatures: Methods and applications in steel design. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 053202 (2012)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
Many important phenomena occurring in polycrystalline materials under large plastic strain, like microstructure, deformation localization and in-grain texture evolution can be predicted by high-resolution modeling of crystals. Unfortunately, the simulation mesh gets distorted during the deformation because of the heterogeneity of the plastic…
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
With the support of DFG, in this project the interaction of H with mechanical, chemical and electrochemical properties in ferritic Fe-based alloys is investigated by the means of in-situ nanoindentation, which can characterize the mechanical behavior of independent features within a material upon the simultaneous charge of H.
The full potential of energy materials can only be exploited if the interplay between mechanics and chemistry at the interfaces is well known. This leads to more sustainable and efficient energy solutions.