Grabowski, B.: Modern materials design from first-principles: Recent progress and future prospects. Seminar, Imperial College London, London, UK (2015)
Grabowski, B.: Ab initio thermodynamics of the CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy: Importance of entropy contributions beyond the configurational one. ICAMS Seminar, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2015)
Grabowski, B.: Random phase approximation up to the melting point: The impact of anharmonicity and non-local many-body effects on the thermodynamics of Au. MISIS Workshop, Moscow, Russia (2015)
Körmann, F.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Temperature-dependent coupling of atomic and magnetic degree of freedom from first-principles. Electronic Structure Theory for the Accelerated Design of Structural Materials, Moscow, Russia (2015)
Grabowski, B.; Wippermann, S. M.; Glensk, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Random phase approximation up to the melting point: Impact of anharmonicity and nonlocal many-body effects on the thermodynamics of Au. DPG Spring Meeting 2015, Berlin, Germany (2015)
Hickel, T.; Glensk, A.; Grabowski, B.; Körmann, F.; Neugebauer, J.: Thermodynamics of materials up to the melting point: The role of anharmonicities. Asia Sweden Meeting on Understanding Functional Materials from Lattice dynamics, Guwahati, India (2014)
Low dimensional electronic systems, featuring charge density waves and collective excitations, are highly interesting from a fundamental point of view. These systems support novel types of interfaces, such as phase boundaries between metals and charge density waves.
In this project, links are being established between local chemical variation and the mechanical response of laser-processed metallic alloys and advanced materials.
In this project, we employ a metastability-engineering strategy to design bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases.
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
In this project we conduct together with Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen and the department of Prof. Neugebauer ab initio calculations for designing new Mg – Li alloys. Ab initio calculations can accurately predict basic structural, mechanical, and functional properties using only the atomic composition as a basis.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.