Herbig, M.; Kumar, A.: Removal of hydrocarbon contamination and oxide films from atom probe specimens. Microscopy Research and Technique 84 (2), pp. 291 - 297 (2021)
Kumar, A.; Dutta, A.; Makineni, S. K.; Herbig, M.; Petrov, R.; Sietsma, J.: In-situ observation of strain partitioning and damage development in continuously cooled carbide-free bainitic steels using micro digital image correlation. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 757, pp. 107 - 116 (2019)
Kwiatkowski da Silva, A.; Inden, G.; Kumar, A.; Ponge, D.; Gault, B.; Raabe, D.: Competition between formation of carbides and reversed austenite during tempering of a medium-manganese steel studied by thermodynamic-kinetic simulations and atom probe tomography. Acta Materialia 147, pp. 165 - 175 (2018)
International research team shows how hydrogen affects Nickel-base superalloys at elevated temperatures. Latest results published in journal Nature Materials.
Water electrolysis has the potential to become the major technology for the production of the high amount of green hydrogen that is necessary for its widespread application in a decarbonized economy. The bottleneck of this electrochemical reaction is the anodic partial reaction, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is sluggish and hence…
This project targets to exploit or develop new methodologies to not only visualize the 3D morphology but also measure chemical distribution of as-synthesized nanostructures using atom probe tomography.
The mission of our group is to uncover the fundamental mechanisms of deformation and degradation in battery systems and to leverage mechanical principles to design damage-resilient energy storage systems.
Here the focus lies on investigating the temperature dependent deformation of material interfaces down to the individual microstructural length-scales, such as grain/phase boundaries or hetero-interfaces, to understand brittle-ductile transitions in deformation and the role of chemistry or crystallography on it.
The group aims at unraveling the inner workings of ion batteries, with a focus on probing the microstructural and interfacial character of electrodes and electrolytes that control ionic transport and insertion into the electrode.