Choi, W. S.; De Cooman, B. C.: Effect of Carbon on the Damping Capacity and Mechanical Properties of Thermally Trained Fe–Mn Based High Damping Alloys. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 700, pp. 641 - 648 (2017)
Lee, C. W.; Choi, W. S.; Cho, Y. R.; De Cooman, B. C.: Direct Resistance Joule Heating of Al-10 pct Si-Coated Press Hardening Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 47 (6), pp. 2875 - 2884 (2016)
Lee, C. W.; Choi, W. S.; Cho, Y. R.; De Cooman, B. C.: Microstructure evolution of a 55 wt.% Al–Zn coating on press hardening steel during rapid heating. Surface and Coatings Technology 281, pp. 35 - 43 (2015)
Choi, W. S.; De Cooman, B. C.; Sandlöbes, S.; Raabe, D.: Size and orientation effects in partial dislocation-mediated deformation of twinning-induced plasticity steel micro-pillars. Acta Materialia 98, 12304, pp. 391 - 404 (2015)
Choi, W. S.: Deformation mechanisms and the role of interfaces in face-centered cubic Fe-Mn-C micro-pillars. Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany (2018)
Low dimensional electronic systems, featuring charge density waves and collective excitations, are highly interesting from a fundamental point of view. These systems support novel types of interfaces, such as phase boundaries between metals and charge density waves.
In this project, links are being established between local chemical variation and the mechanical response of laser-processed metallic alloys and advanced materials.
In this project, we employ a metastability-engineering strategy to design bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases.
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.
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.
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.
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.