He, D.; Zaefferer, S.; Li, Q.: Response to Comment on "An Experimental Study on Evolution of Grain-Scale Stress/Strain and Geometrical Necessary Dislocations in Advanced TA15 Titanium Alloy during Uniaxial Tension Deformation". Advanced Engineering Materials 19 (6), 1700293 (2017)
Stoffers, A.; Cojocaru-Mirédin, O.; Seifert, W.; Zaefferer, S.; Riepe, S.; Raabe, D.: Grain boundary segregation in multicrystalline silicon: correlative characterization by EBSD, EBIC, and atom probe tomography. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 23 (12), pp. 1742 - 1753 (2015)
Konijnenberg, P. J.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: Assessment of geometrically necessary dislocation levels derived by 3D EBSD. Acta Materialia 99, pp. 402 - 414 (2015)
Zhang, J.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: A study on the geometry of dislocation patterns in the surrounding of nanoindents in a TWIP steel using electron channeling contrast imaging and discrete dislocation dynamics simulations. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 636, pp. 231 - 242 (2015)
Ram, F.; Zaefferer, S.; Jäpel, T.; Raabe, D.: Error analysis of the crystal orientations and disorientations obtained by the classical electron backscatter diffraction technique. Journal of Applied Crystallography 48 (3), pp. 797 - 813 (2015)
Afshar, M.; Zaefferer, S.: A pseudo-3D approach based on electron backscatter diffraction and backscatter electron imaging to study the character of phase boundaries between Mg and long period stacking ordered phase in a Mg–2Y–Zn alloy. Materials Characterization 101, pp. 130 - 135 (2015)
Schäffer, A. K.; Jäpel, T.; Zaefferer, S.; Abart, R.; Rhede, D.: Lattice strain across Na–K interdiffusion fronts in alkali feldspar: An electron back-scatter diffraction study. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 41 (10), pp. 795 - 804 (2014)
Zaefferer, S.; Elhami, N. N.: Theory and application of electron channelling contrast imaging under controlled diffraction conditions. Acta Materialia 75, pp. 20 - 50 (2014)
Mandal, S.; Pradeep, K. G.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: A novel approach to measure grain boundary segregation in bulk polycrystalline materials in dependence of the boundaries’ five rotational degrees of freedom. Scripta Materialia 81, pp. 16 - 19 (2014)
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…
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
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.
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.
Hydrogen embrittlement affects high-strength ferrite/martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. The associated micromechanisms which lead to failure have not been fully clarified yet. Here we present a quantitative micromechanical analysis of the microstructural damage phenomena in a model DP steel in the presence of hydrogen.
This project will aim at developing MEMS based nanoforce sensors with capacitive sensing capabilities. The nanoforce sensors will be further incorporated with in situ SEM and TEM small scale testing systems, for allowing simultaneous visualization of the deformation process during mechanical tests
The project aims to study corrosion, a detrimental process with an enormous impact on global economy, by combining denstiy-functional theory calculations with thermodynamic concepts.