Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab Initio Determined Phase Diagram of Clean and Solvated Muscovite Mica Surfaces. Langmuir 32 (4), pp. 1027 - 1033 (2016)
Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Connecting semiconductor defect chemistry with electrochemistry: Impact of the electrolyte on the formation and concentration of point defects in ZnO. Surface Science 631, pp. 190 - 195 (2015)
Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Extending the concept of defect chemistry from semiconductor physics to electrochemistry. Physical Review Applied 1 (1), 014001 (2014)
Soon, A.; Wong, L.; Lee, M.; Todorova, M.; Delley, B.; Stampfl, C.: Nitrogen adsorption and thin surface nitrides on Cu(111) from first-principles. Surface Science 601, pp. 4775 - 4785 (2007)
Kenmoe, S.; Todorova, M.; Biedermann, P. U.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of the vapour pressure of water on the equilibrium shape of ZnO nanoparticles: An ab-initio study. In APS March Meeting 2014, abstract #Q2.009. APS March Meeting 2014 , Denver, CO, USA, March 03, 2014 - March 07, 2014. (2014)
Kenmoe, S.; Todorova, M.; Biedermann, P. U.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of the vapour pressure of water on the equilibrium shape of ZnO nanoparticles: An ab-initio study. In DPG Spring Meeting 2014, Abstract: O50.6. DPG Spring Meeting 2014 , Dresden, Germany, March 30, 2014 - April 04, 2015. (2014)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Deißenbeck, F.; Wippermann, S. M.; Neugebauer, J.: Atomic insights into fundamental processes at electrochemical solid/liquid interface by ab initio calculations. 38th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry: Nanomaterials in Electrochemistry, Manchester, UK (2024)
Todorova, M.: Future directions in materials from modelling. Future directions in materials research in Europe organised by the Materials Australia VIC-TAS Branch/RMIT Europe, Online (2024)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Deißenbeck, F.; Wippermann, S. M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab Initio Calculations for electrified solid/liquid interfaces – Challenges, insights and Opportunities. GRC Aqueous Corrosion: Corrosion Challenges and Opportunities for the Energy Transition, New London, NH, USA (2024)
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.