Schwarz, T.; Yang, J.; Aota, L. S.; Woods, E.; Zhou, X.; Neugebauer, J.; Todorova, M.; McCaroll, I.; Gault, B.: Analysis of the reactive solid-liquid interface during the corrosion of magnesium at the near atomic level using cryo-atom probe tomography. Aqueous Corrosion Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) 2024, Corrosion Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigation Towards a Sustainable Future, New London, CT, USA (2024)
Krämer, M.; Favelukis, B.; Sokol, M.; Rosen, B. A.; Eliaz, N.; Kim, S.-H.; Gault, B.: Facilitating Atom Probe Tomography of Free-Standing 2D MXene Films. Atom Probe Tomography & Microscopy (APT&M) 2023, Leuven, Belgium (2023)
Schwarz, T.; Woods, E.; Aota, L. S.; Zhou, X.; McCaroll, I.; Gault, B.: Application of cryo-atom probe tomography to study early-stage corrosion mechanism at liquid-solid interfaces at near atomic scale. EuroCorr 2023, Bruessles, Belgium (2023)
Bueno Villoro, R.; Luo, T.; Bishara, H.; Abdellaoui, L.; Gault, B.; Wood, M.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Effect of grain boundaries on electrical conductivity in Ti(Co,Fe)Sb half Heusler thermoelectrics. 719. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Understanding Transport Processes on the Nanoscale for Energy Harvesting Devices, online (2021)
Kühbach, M.; Breen, A. J.; Herbig, M.; Gault, B.; Raabe, D.: Building a Library of Simulated Atom Probe Data for Different Crystal Structures and Pillar Orientations Using TAPSim. APT&M 2018 International Conference on Atom-Probe Tomography & Microscopy, Washington, DC, USA (2018)
Makineni, S. K.; Raabe, D.; Gault, B.: Development of high temperature Mo–Si–B based alloy through Laser Additive Manufacturing. Intermetallics 2017, Bad Staffelstein, Germany (2017)
Rusitzka, A. K.; Stephenson, L.; Gremer, L.; Raabe, D.; Willbold, D.; Gault, B.: Getting insights to Alzheimer‘s disease by atom probe tomography. 6th International caesar conference, Overcoming Barriers — atomic-resolution and beyond: advances in molecular electron microscopy, Bonn, Germany (2017)
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.