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)
Kenmoe, S.; Biedermann, P. U.: Water adsorbate phases on ZnO and impact of vapor pressure on the equilibrium shape of nanoparticles. The Journal of Chemical Physics 148, 054701 (2018)
Kenmoe, S.; Biedermann, P. U.: Water aggregation and dissociation on the ZnO(1010) surface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19, pp. 1466 - 1486 (2017)
Biedermann, P. U.; Agranat, I.: Stereochemistry of bistricyclic aromatic enes and related polycyclic systems. Topics in Current Chemistry 350, pp. 177 - 277 (2014)
Nayak, S.; Biedermann, P. U.; Stratmann, M.; Erbe, A.: In situ infrared spectroscopic investigation of intermediates in the electrochemical oxygen reduction on n-Ge(100) in alkaline perchlorate and chloride electrolyte. Electrochimica Acta 106, pp. 472 - 482 (2013)
Nayak, S.; Biedermann, P. U.; Stratmann, M.; Erbe, A.: A mechanistic study of the electrochemical oxygen reduction on the model semiconductor n-Ge(100) by ATR-IR and DFT. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15 (16), pp. 5771 - 5781 (2013)
Azzam, W.; Bashir, A.; Biedermann, P. U.; Rohwerder, M.: Formation of highly ordered and orientated gold islands: Effect of immersion time on the molecular adlayer structure of pentafluorobenzenethiols (PFBT) SAMs on Au(111). Langmuir 28 (27), pp. 10192 - 10208 (2012)
Torres, E.; Blumenau, A. T.; Biedermann, P. U.: Steric and Chain Length Effects in the (√(3) x √(3))R30°Structures of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111). ChemPhysChem 12, pp. 999 - 1009 (2011)
Hamou, F. R.; Biedermann, P. U.; Erbe, A.; Rohwerder, M.: Numerical simulation of probing the electric double layer by scanning electrochemical potential microscopy. Electrochimica Acta 55 (18), pp. 5210 - 5222 (2010)
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…
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…
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.