Zhou, X.; Hickel, T.; Gault, B.; Ophus, C.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.; Raabe, D.: Exploring the Relationship Between Grain Boundary Structure and Chemical Composition at the Atomic Level. International Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials (IIB 2024), Beijing, China (2024)
Neugebauer, J.; Yang, J.; Todorova, M.; Hickel, T.: Constructing Defect Phase Diagrams from Ab Initio Calculations and CALPHAD Concepts. TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Diego, CA, USA (2023)
Neugebauer, J.; Körmann, F.; Hickel, T.: Ab Initio Descriptors to Guide Materials Design in High-dimensional Chemical and Structural Configuration Spaces. TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Diego, CA, USA (2022)
Neugebauer, J.; Zendegani, A.; Hickel, T.: Construction and Application of Defect Phase Diagrams. TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Anaheim, CA, USA (2022)
Neugebauer, J.; Zendegani, A.; Hickel, T.: Defect phase diagrams as novel tool to understand and design tailored defect structures in advanced steels. Thermec2021, Virtual Meeting, Vienna, Austria (2021)
Hickel, T.: Application of Density Functional Theory in the Context of Phase Diagram Modelling. MSIT Winter School on Materials Chemistry, Virtual Event (2021)
Janßen, J.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: pyiron – an integrated development environment for ab initio thermodynamics. Potential Workshop, ICAMS, virtual, Bochum, Germany (2021)
Freysoldt, C.; Hickel, T.; Janßen, J.; Wang, N.; Zendegani, A.: High-throughput optimization of finite temperature phase stabilities: Concepts and application. Coffee with Max Planck, virtual seminar organized by the MPIE, Düsseldorf, Germany (2021)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is one of the most dangerous embrittlement problems in metallic materials and advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) are particularly prone to HE with the presence of only a few parts-per-million of H. However, the HE mechanisms in these materials remain elusive, especially for the lightweight steels where the composition…
Conventional alloy development methodologies which specify a single base element and several alloying elements have been unable to introduce new alloys at an acceptable rate for the increasingly specialised application requirements of modern technologies. An alternative alloy development strategy searches the previously unexplored central regions…
The key to the design and construction of advanced materials with tailored mechanical properties is nano- and micro-scale plasticity. Significant influence also exists in shaping the mechanical behavior of materials on small length scales.
This project aims to correlate the localised electrical properties of ceramic materials and the defects present within their microstructure. A systematic approach has been developed to create crack-free deformation in oxides through nanoindentation, while the localised defects are probed in-situ SEM to study the electronic properties. A coupling…