Warden, G. K.; Ebbinghaus, P.; Rabe, M.; Juel, M.; Gaweł, B. A.; Erbe, A.; Di Sabatino, M.: Investigation of uniformity in fused quartz crucibles for Czochralski silicon ingots. Journal of Crystal Growth 645, 127844 (2024)
Pang, B.; Iqbal, D.; Sarfraz, A.; Biedermann, P. U.; Erbe, A.: Differences in perchlorate adsorption to azobenzene monolayers on gold formed from thioacetate and thiol precursors. Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie 236 (10) (2022)
Nayak, S.; Biedermann, P. U.; Erbe, A.: Superoxide intermediate in the oxygen reduction on a zinc hydroxide model corrosion product. The Journal of Chemical Physics 157, 224702 (2022)
Zhong, X.; Schulz, M.; Wu, C.-H.; Rabe, M.; Erbe, A.; Rohwerder, M.: Limiting Current Density of Oxygen Reduction under Ultrathin Electrolyte Layers: From the Micrometer Range to Monolayers. ChemElectroChem 8 (4), pp. 712 - 718 (2021)
Richter, R. A.; Tolstik, N.; Rigaud, S.; Dalla Valle, P.; Erbe, A.; Ebbinghaus, P.; Astrauskas, I.; Kalashnikov, V.; Sorokin, E.; Sorokina, I. T.: Sub-surface modifications in silicon with ultra-short pulsed lasers above 2 µm. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 37 (9), pp. 2543 - 2556 (2020)
Ksiazkiewicz, A. N.; Fernández Solis, C. D.; Erbe, A.: Electrochemical contrast switching between black and white appearance of gelatin-covered zinc. Journal of Physics: Materials 3 (2), 025009 (2020)
Rabe, M.; Toparli, C.; Chen, Y.-H.; Kasian, O.; Mayrhofer, K. J. J.; Erbe, A.: Alkaline manganese electrochemistry studied by in situ and operando spectroscopic methods - metal dissolution, oxide formation and oxygen evolution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 (20), pp. 10457 - 10469 (2019)
Rechmann, J.; Krzywiecki, M.; Erbe, A.: Carbon-Sulfur Bond Cleavage During Adsorption of Octadecane Thiol to Copper in Ethanol. Langmuir 35 (21), pp. 6888 - 6897 (2019)
Chen, Y.-H.; Erbe, A.: The multiple roles of an organic corrosion inhibitor on copper investigated by a combination of electrochemistry-coupled optical in situ spectroscopies. Corrosion Science 145, pp. 232 - 238 (2018)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
We plan to investigate the rate-dependent tensile properties of 2D materials such as metal thin films and PbMoO4 (PMO) films by using a combination of a novel plan-view FIB based sample lift out method and a MEMS based in situ tensile testing platform inside a TEM.
This project aims to investigate the influence of grain boundaries on mechanical behavior at ultra-high strain rates and low temperatures. For this micropillar compressions on copper bi-crystals containing different grain boundaries will be performed.
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.
Hydrogen embrittlement affects high-strength ferrite/martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. The associated micromechanisms which lead to failure have not been fully clarified yet. Here we present a quantitative micromechanical analysis of the microstructural damage phenomena in a model DP steel in the presence of hydrogen.
The project aims to study corrosion, a detrimental process with an enormous impact on global economy, by combining denstiy-functional theory calculations with thermodynamic concepts.