Uebel, M.; Tran, T. H.; Altin, A.; Gerlitzky, C.; Erbe, A.; Groche, P.: Which Properties Must a Surface have to be Suitable for Cold Pressure Welding? 22nd International Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2019), Mondragon Unibrtsitatae, Spain (2019)
Rabe, M.; Baumgartner, L.-M.; Boyle, A. L.; Erbe, A.: Designing smart interfaces based on electro-responsive self-assembled monolayers from coiled-coil peptides. Bunsentagung 2019 - 118th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Jena, Germany (2019)
Ebbinghaus, P.; Rabe, M.; Erbe, A.: Time-dependent Water Uptake in s Polymer Model Coating Visualised by FTIR Microscopy Using a Focal Plane Array Detector. Fourier Transform Spectroscopy 2016, Leipzig, Germany (2016)
Mondragon Ochoa, J. S.; Altin, A.; Rohwerder, M.; Erbe, A.: Surface Modification of Iron With Grafted Hydrophobic Acrylic Polymers and Study of Their Delamination Kinetics. Polymers and Organic Chemistry POC16, Hersonissos (Crete), Greece (2016)
Erbe, A.; Schneider, P.; Sarfraz, A.; Iqbal, D.: Neue Ergebnisse zur Bildung und Wirkung klassischer und moderner Vorbehandlungen. Gfkorr Jahrestagung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015)
Iqbal, D.; Erbe, A.: Chemie der kathodischen Delamination – welche Bindung bricht? Sitzung des Gfkorr Arbeitskreises “Korrosionsschutz durch Beschichtungen”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015)
Altin, A.; Wohletz, S.; Krieger, W.; Groche, P.; Erbe, A.: Effect of surface condition on the bond strength between aluminum and steel joint in cold welding. CETAS 2015, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015)
Biedermann, P. U.; Nayak, S.; Erbe, A.: The Mechanism of Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction: A Combined DFT and in-Situ ATR-IR Study on Model Semiconductor Surfaces Ge(100) and ZnO. 227th ECS Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA (2015)
Yang, L.; Tecklenburg, S.; Fang, N.; Erbe, A.; Wippermann, S. M.; Gygi, F.; Galli, G.: A joint first principles and ATR-IR study of the vibrational properties of interfacial water at Si(100):H-H2O solid-liquid interfaces. APS March Meeting 2015 , San Antonio, TX, USA (2015)
Altin, A.; Wohletz, S.; Krieger, W.; Kostka, A.; Groche, P.; Erbe, A.: Nanoscale understanding of bond formation during cold welding of aluminum and steel. 6th International Conference on Tribology in Manufacturing Processes & Joining by Plastic Deformation, Darmstadt, Germany (2014)
Altin, A.; Erbe, A.; Ritter, H.; Rohwerder, M.: Controlled release of inhibitors from composite organic coatings: A “green” way of corrosion protection. EUROCORR 2013, Estoril, Portugal (2013)
Sarfraz, A.; Posner, R.; Lill, K.; Erbe, A.: Zirconium oxide based conversion layers on aluminum alloys: Role of intermetallics. 112th Bunsentagung (Annual German Conference on Physical Chemistry), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany (2013)
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
In this project we conduct together with Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen and the department of Prof. Neugebauer ab initio calculations for designing new Mg – Li alloys. Ab initio calculations can accurately predict basic structural, mechanical, and functional properties using only the atomic composition as a basis.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
The project Hydrogen Embrittlement Protection Coating (HEPCO) addresses the critical aspects of hydrogen permeation and embrittlement by developing novel strategies for coating and characterizing hydrogen permeation barrier layers for valves and pumps used for hydrogen storage and transport applications.