Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab Initio Determined Phase Diagram of Clean and Solvated Muscovite Mica Surfaces. Langmuir 32 (4), pp. 1027 - 1033 (2016)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio Determination of Formation Energies and Charge Transfer Levels of Charged Ions in Water. APS 2016, Baltimore, MD, USA (2016)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation Energy of Ions in Water using ab-initio Molecular Dynamics. DPG Frühjahrstagung 2016, Regensburg, Germany (2016)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation Energy of Halide ions (Cl/Br/I) in water from ab-initio Molecular Dyna. Psi-k 2015 Conference, San Sebastián, Spain (2015)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation Energy of ions in water: An ab initio molecular dynamics study. 2nd German-Austrian Workshop on "Computational Materials Science on Complex Energy Landscapes", Kirchdorf, Austria (2015)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Modelling Mica from first-principles. 1st Dutch/German Workshop on Computational Materials Design, Balk, The Netherlands (2013)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation Energy of Zn-ions in water: An ab initio molecular dynamics study. ICMR Workshop - Workshop on Charged Systems and Solid/Liquid Interfaces, University of California , Santa Barbara, USA (2015)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation Energy of Zn-ions in water: An ab initio molecular dynamics study. ICMR Workshop - Advances in oxide materials: Preparation, properties, performance, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (2014)
Vatti, A. K.: An ab initio study of muscovite mica and formation energy of ions in liquid water. Dissertation, Fakultät für Maschinenbau der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2016)
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…
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.
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 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…
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.
This project will aim at developing MEMS based nanoforce sensors with capacitive sensing capabilities. The nanoforce sensors will be further incorporated with in situ SEM and TEM small scale testing systems, for allowing simultaneous visualization of the deformation process during mechanical tests