Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Romano, P.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles on the mechanics of a biological fiber-based composite material with hierarchical organization: The exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus. Advanced Materials 21, pp. 391 - 400 (2009)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Influence of the microstructure on deformation anisotropy of mineralized cuticle from the lobster Homarus americanus. Journal of Structural Biology 161, pp. 120 - 132 (2008)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Hardness and elastic properties of dehydrated cuticle from the lobster Homarus americanus obtained by nanoindentation. Journal of Material Research 21 (8), pp. 1987 - 1995 (2006)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Microstructure and crystallographic texture of the chitin-protein network in the biological composite material of the exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus. Materials Science and Engineering A 421, pp. 143 - 153 (2006)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Experimental investigation of the elastic-plastic deformation of mineralized lobster cuticle by digital image correlation. Journal of Structural Biology 155, pp. 409 - 425 (2006)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Mesostructure of the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus. Mater. Res. Soc. Sympos. Proc. 874, pp. 155 - 160 (2005)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Discovery of a honeycomb structure in the twisted plywood patterns of fibrous biological nano-composite tissue. Journal of Crystal Growth 283, 1-2, pp. 1 - 7 (2005)
Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Romano, P.: The crustacean exoskeleton as an example of a structurally and mechanically graded biological nanocomposite material. Acta Materialia 53, pp. 4281 - 4292 (2005)
Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Petrov, M.; Friak, M.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.; Ma, D.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of lobster cuticle from nano‐ up to macroscale: The influence of the mineral content and the microstructure. In: Proceedings of MMM 2008 "Computational Modeling of biological and soft condensed matter systems", pp. 667 - 670. 4th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Tallahassee, FL, USA, October 27, 2008 - October 31, 2008. Dep. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, USA (2008)
Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Structure and crystallographic texture of arthropod bio-composites. In: Materials Science Forum, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials ICOTOM 14, pp. 1665 - 1674. 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials ICOTOM 14, Leuven, Belgium, July 11, 2005 - July 15, 2005. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland (2005)
Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.: Mesostructure of the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus. Mater. Res. Soc. Sympos. Proc. 874, L.5.3, pp. 161 - 166 (2005)
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…
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.
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.
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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…
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.
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