Aksyonov, D. A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Lipnitskii, A. G.: The impact of carbon and oxygen in alpha-titanium: ab initio study of solution enthalpies and grain boundary segregation. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 28 (38), 385001 (2016)
Bleskov, I.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Ruban, A. V.: Impact of local magnetism on stacking fault energies: A first-principles investigation for fcc iron. Physical Review B 93 (21), 214115 (2016)
Körmann, F.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Influence of magnetic excitations on the phase stability of metals and steels. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 20 (2), pp. 77 - 84 (2016)
Glensk, A.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Understanding anharmonicity in fcc Materials: From its origin to ab initio strategies beyond the quasiharmonic approximation. Physical Review Letters 114 (19), 195901 (2015)
Dutta, B.; Hickel, T.; Entel, P.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab Initio Predicted Impact of Pt on Phase Stabilities in Ni–Mn–Ga Heusler alloys. Journal of Phase Equilibra and Diffusion 35 (6), pp. 695 - 700 (2014)
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…
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.
“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…
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…
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.