Friedrichs, M.; Peng, Z.; Grunwald, T.; Rohwerder, M.; Gault, B.; Bergs, T.: PtIr protective coating system for precision glass molding tools: Design, evaluation and mechanism of degradation. Surface and Coatings Technology 385, 125378 (2020)
Sun, B.; Krieger, W.; Rohwerder, M.; Ponge, D.; Raabe, D.: Dependence of hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms on microstructure-driven hydrogen distribution in medium Mn steels. Acta Materialia 183, pp. 313 - 328 (2020)
Aguirre, J.; Walczak, M.; Rohwerder, M.: The mechanism of erosion-corrosion of API X65 steel under turbulent slurry flow: Effect of nominal flow velocity and oxygen content. WEAR 438-439, 203053 (2019)
Merz, A.; Rohwerder, M.: The protection zone: A long-range corrosion protection mechanism around conducting polymer particles in composite coatings: Part II. PEDOT: PSS. Journal of the Electrochemical Society 166 (12), pp. C314 - C320 (2019)
Merz, A.; Uebel, M.; Rohwerder, M.: The Protection Zone: A Long-Range Corrosion Protection Mechanism around Conducting Polymer Particles in Composite Coatings: Part I. Polyaniline and Polypyrrole. Journal of the Electrochemical Society 166 (12), pp. C304 - C313 (2019)
Wu, C.-H.; Krieger, W.; Rohwerder, M.: On the robustness of the Kelvin probe based potentiometric hydrogen electrode method and its application in characterizing effective hydrogen activity in metal: 5 wt. % Ni cold-rolled ferritic steel as an example. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 20 (1), pp. 1073 - 1089 (2019)
Uebel, M.; Exbrayat, L.; Rabe, M.; Tran, T. H.; Crespy, D.; Rohwerder, M.: On the Role of Trigger Signal Spreading Velocity for Efficient Self-Healing Coatings for Corrosion Protection. Journal of the Electrochemical Society 165 (16), pp. C1017 - C1027 (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…
“Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of steel is a great challenge in engineering applications. However, the HE mechanisms are not fully understood. Conventional studies of HE are mostly based on post mortem observations of the microstructure evolution and those results can be misleading due to intermediate H diffusion. Therefore, experiments with a…
The goal of this project is the investigation of interplay between the atomic-scale chemistry and the strain rate in affecting the deformation response of Zr-based BMGs. Of special interest are the shear transformation zone nucleation in the elastic regime and the shear band propagation in the plastic regime of BMGs.
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…