Huemer, K.; Karsten, S.; Balusundaram, K.; Raabe, D.; Hild, S.; Fabritius, H.: Structural organization and mineral distribution in load-bearing exoskeleton parts of the edible crab Cancer pagurus. DPG Frühjahrstagung 2010, Regensburg, Germany (2010)
Fabritius, H.; Karsten, E. S.; Balasundaram, K.; Hild, S.; Huemer, K.; Raabe, D.: Influence of Structural Organization and Mineral Distribution on the Local Mechanical Properties of Mineralized Cuticle from the Crab Cancer pagurus. Materials Science and Engineering MSE 2010, Darmstadt, Germany (2010)
Fabritius, H.; Hild, S.; Raabe, D.: Leg joints of the lobster Homarus americanus as an example of cuticle modification for specific functions: Variations in structure, composition and properties. MRS Fall Meeting 2008, Boston, MA, USA (2008)
Struss, J.; Znidarsic, N.; Ziegler, A.; Hild, S.: Microscopic anatomy and mineral composition of cuticle in amphibious isopods Ligia italica and Titanethes albus (Crustacea:Isopoda). European Microscopy Congeress EMC 2008, Aachen, Germany (2008)
Ziegler, A.; Hild, S.: Distribution and function of amorphous CaCO3 and Calcite within the tergite cuticle of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea). European Microscopy Congeress EMC 2008, Aachen, Germany (2008)
Hild, S.; Ziegler, A.: The isopod cuticle: A model to study formation and function of amorphous calcium carbonate in calcified tissues. European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (2008)
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…
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.
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…
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 the use of a combinatorial experimental approach to design advanced multicomponent multi-functional alloys with rapid alloy prototyping. We use rapid alloy prototyping to investigate five multicomponent Invar alloys with 5 at.% addition of Al, Cr, Cu, Mn and Si to a super Invar alloy (Fe63Ni32Co5; at.%), respectively…