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)
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)
Luo, H.; Li, Z.; Chen, Y.-H.; Ponge, D.; Rohwerder, M.; Raabe, D.: Hydrogen effects on microstructural evolution and passive film characteristics of a duplex stainless steel. Electrochemistry Communucations 79, pp. 28 - 32 (2017)
Jevremović, I.; Chen, Y.-H.; Altin, A.; Erbe, A.: Mechanisms of Inhibitor Action: Passivation and Self-Healing. In: Corrosion Inhibitors in the Oil and Gas Industries, Vol. Part 2, (Chapter 15), pp. 359 - 382 (Eds. Saji, V. S.; Umoren, S. A.). Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany (2020)
Erbe, A.; Nayak, S.; Chen, Y.-H.; Niu, F.; Pander, M.; Tecklenburg, S.; Toparli, C.: How to probe structure, kinetics and dynamics at complex interfaces in situ and operando by optical spectroscopy. In: Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry: Surface Science and Electrochemistry; part of "Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering", pp. 199 - 219 (Ed. Wandelt, K.). Elsevier, Waltham, MA, USA (2017)
Pengel, S.; Niu, F.; Nayak, S.; Tecklenburg, S.; Chen, Y.-H.; Ebbinghaus, P.; Schulz, R.; Yang, L.; Biedermann, P. U.; Gygi, F.et al.; Schmid, R.; Galli, G.; Wippermann, S. M.; Erbe, A.: Oxygen reduction and water at the semiconductor/solution interface probed by stationary and time-resolved ATR-IR spectroscopy coupled to electrochemical experiments and DFT calculations. In: Program of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS) – Oral Abstracts, pp. 130 - 131 (Eds. Lendl, B.; Koch, C.; Kraft, M.; Ofner, J.; Ramer, G.). 8th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS), Vienna, Austria, July 12, 2015 - July 17, 2015. (2015)
Chen, Y.-H.: A comprehensive in situ spectroscopic study of 2-mercaptobenzothiazole as a corrosion inhibitor for copper. Dissertation, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (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.