Peng, Z.; Meiners, T.; Gault, B.; Liebscher, C.; Raabe, D.; Lu, Y.: A Methodology for Investigation of Grain-Boundary Diffusion and Segregation. In: MicroscopyMicroanalysis, Vol. 23, pp. 656 - 657. Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017, St. Louis, MO, USA, August 06, 2017 - August 10, 2017. (2017)
El-Zoka, A.; Kim, S.-H.; Khanchandani, H.; Stephenson, L.; Gault, B.: Advances in Cryo-Atom Probe Tomography Studies on Formation of Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying (Digital Presentation). In ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2022-01 (47), p. 1983. The Electrochemical Society (2022)
Schwarz, T.; Wieland, F.; Zeller-Plumhoff, B.; Gault, B.: On the trail of Mg - Incorporation and diffusion of Mg into the bone structure during the biodegradation of a MgGd screw. 17th Biometal 2025 Symposium, Cetraro, Italy (2025)
Schwarz, T.; Hsu, Y.-L.; Dumont, M.; Garcia-Giner, V.; Jung, C.; Porter, A.; Gault, B.: Atom Probe Tomography - a new approach to provide new insights into the interfacial reaction at the liquid-solid interface on the atomic scale. Institute Seminar FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Materials Science, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (2025)
Schwarz, T.; Hsu, Y.-L.; Dumont, M.; Garcia-Giner, V.; Jung, C.; Porter, A.; Gault, B.: Atom probe tomography – a new technique to understand biominerals/materials on the atomic scale. 8th BioMAT 2025 - Symposium on Biomaterials and Related Areas, Weimar, Germany (2025)
Zhou, X.; Hickel, T.; Gault, B.; Ophus, C.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.; Raabe, D.: Exploring the Relationship Between Grain Boundary Structure and Chemical Composition at the Atomic Level. International Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials (IIB 2024), Beijing, China (2024)
Krämer, M.; Favelukis, B.; El-Zoka, A.; Sokol, M.; A. Rosen, B.; Eliaz, N.; Kim, S.-H.; Gault, B.: Compositional mapping of 2D MXenes at the near-atomic-scale by atom probe tomography. EUROMXENE Congress 2024, Valencia, Spain (2024)
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…
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 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.
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.
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…
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.