Beese-Vasbender, P. F.: From Microbially Induced Corrosion to Bioelectrical Energy Conversion - Electrochemical Characterization of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Methanogenic Archaea. Dissertation, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2014)
Schuppert, A. K.: Combinatorial screening of fuel cell catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Dissertation, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2014)
Meier, J. C.: Degradation phenomena and design principles for stable and active Pt/C fuel cell catalysts. Dissertation, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2013)
Rabe, M.; Kasian, O.; Mayrhofer, K. J. J.; Erbe, A.: Schlussbericht zum Vorhaben: Mechanistische Untersuchungen der elektrochemischen Sauerstoffentwicklung auf Modellelektroden - Stabilität der Elektroden, Natur der Oxide und Intermediate - Teilvorhaben des Clusterprojekts "Mangan". Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2019), 32 pp.
In this project, links are being established between local chemical variation and the mechanical response of laser-processed metallic alloys and advanced materials.
In this project, we employ a metastability-engineering strategy to design bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases.
Solitonic excitations with topological properties in charge density waves may be used as information carriers in novel types of information processing.
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…
In this project we conduct together with Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen and the department of Prof. Neugebauer ab initio calculations for designing new Mg – Li alloys. Ab initio calculations can accurately predict basic structural, mechanical, and functional properties using only the atomic composition as a basis.
Low dimensional electronic systems, featuring charge density waves and collective excitations, are highly interesting from a fundamental point of view. These systems support novel types of interfaces, such as phase boundaries between metals and charge density waves.
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.