Nayyeri, G.; Poole, W. J.; Sinclair, C. W.; Zaefferer, S.: The role of indenter radius on spherical indentation of high purity magnesium loaded nearly parallel to the c-axis. Scripta Materialia 137, pp. 119 - 122 (2017)
Wang, Z.; Zaefferer, S.: On the accuracy of grain boundary character determination by pseudo-3D EBSD. Materials Characterization 130, pp. 33 - 38 (2017)
Archie, F. M. F.; Li, X. L.; Zaefferer, S.: Micro-damage initiation in ferrite-martensite DP microstructures: A statistical characterization of crystallographic and chemical parameters. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 701, pp. 302 - 313 (2017)
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)
Max Planck scientists design a process that merges metal extraction, alloying and processing into one single, eco-friendly step. Their results are now published in the journal Nature.
Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung pioneer new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy design. Their results are now published in the journal Science Advances
It is very challenging to simulate electron-transfer reactions under potential control within high-level electronic structure theory, e. g. to study electrochemical and electrocatalytic reaction mechanisms. We develop a novel method to sample the canonical NVTΦ or NpTΦ ensemble at constant electrode potential in ab initio molecular dynamics…
Photovoltaic materials have seen rapid development in the past decades, propelling the global transition towards a sustainable and CO2-free economy. Storing the day-time energy for night-time usage has become a major challenge to integrate sizeable solar farms into the electrical grid. Developing technologies to convert solar energy directly into…
Statistical significance in materials science is a challenge that has been trying to overcome by miniaturization. However, this process is still limited to 4-5 tests per parameter variance, i.e. Size, orientation, grain size, composition, etc. as the process of fabricating pillars and testing has to be done one by one. With this project, we aim to…
Crystal Plasticity (CP) modeling [1] is a powerful and well established computational materials science tool to investigate mechanical structure–property relations in crystalline materials. It has been successfully applied to study diverse micromechanical phenomena ranging from strain hardening in single crystals to texture evolution in…
The field of micromechanics has seen a large progress in the past two decades, enabled by the development of instrumented nanoindentation. Consequently, diverse methodologies have been tested to extract fundamental properties of materials related to their plastic and elastic behaviour and fracture toughness. Established experimental protocols are…
In this project, links are being established between local chemical variation and the mechanical response of laser-processed metallic alloys and advanced materials.