Holec, D.; Friák, M.; Dlouhy, A.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio study of pressure stabilized NiTi allotropes: Pressure-induced transformations and hysteresis loops. Physical Review B 84, pp. 224119-1 - 224119-8 (2011)
Grabowski, B.; Söderlind, P.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Temperature-driven phase transitions from first principles including all relevant excitations: The fcc-to-bcc transition in Ca. Physical Review B 84 (21), pp. 214107-1 - 214107-20 (2011)
Du, Y. J. A.; Ismer, L.; Rogal, J.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Drautz, R.: First-principles study on the interaction of H interstitials with grain boundaries in alpha- and gamma-Fe. Physical Review B 84 (14), pp. 144121-1 - 144121-13 (2011)
Dick, A.; Körmann, F.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio based determination of thermodynamic properties of cementite including vibronic, magnetic and electronic excitations. Physical Review B 84 (12), 125101 (2011)
Ismer, L.; Ireta, J.; Neugebauer, J.: A density functional theory based estimation of the anharmonic contributions to the free energy of a polypeptide helix. Journal of Chemical Physics 135 (8), pp. 084122-1 - 084122-7 (2011)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Gambaryan, K. M.; Aroutiounian, V. M.: Growth process, characterization, and modeling of electronic properties of coupled InAsSbP nanostructures. Journal of Applied Physics 110 (4), pp. 043708-1 - 043708-6 (2011)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation energies of point defects at finite temperatures. Physica Status Solidi B 248 (6), pp. 1295 - 1308 (2011)
Pfanner, G.; Freysoldt, C.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio study of electron paramagnetic resonance hyperfine structure of the silicon dangling bond: Role of the local environment. Physical Review B 83 (14), 144110, pp. 1 - 8 (2011)
Körmann, F.; Dick, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Role of spin quantization in determining the thermodynamic properties of magnetic transition metals. Physical Review B 83 (16), 165114 (2011)
von Pezold, J.; Lymperakis, L.; Neugebauer, J.: Hydrogen-enhanced plasticity at dilute bulk H concentrations: The role of H-H interactions and the formation of local hydrides. Acta Materialia 59, pp. 2969 - 2980 (2011)
Abbasi, A.; Dick, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: First-principles investigation of the effect of carbon on the stacking fault energy of Fe–C alloys. Acta Materialia 59, pp. 3041 - 3048 (2011)
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…
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
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.
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
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…
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.