Zaefferer, S.; Kuo, J. C.; Zhao, Z.; Winning, M.; Raabe, D.: On the influence of the grain boundary misorientation on the plastic deformation of aluminum bicrystals. Acta Materialia 51, pp. 4719 - 4735 (2003)
Kuo, J. C.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: Experimental investigation of the deformation behavior of aluminium-bicrystals. MPI für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany (2004)
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.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.