Shah, V.; Sedighiani, K.; Van Dokkum, J. S.; Bos, C.; Roters, F.; Diehl, M.: Coupling crystal plasticity and cellular automaton models to study meta- dynamic recrystallization during hot rolling at high strain rates. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 849, 143471 (2022)
Shah, V.; Krugla, M.; Offerman, S. E.; Sietsma, J.; Hanlon, D. N.: Effect of silicon, manganese and heating rate on the ferrite recrystallization kinetics. ISIJ International 60 (6), pp. 1312 - 1323 (2020)
Shah, V.; Diehl, M.; Roters, F.: Prediction of Nucleation Sites for Recrystallization using Crystal Plasticity Simulations. 7th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, Ghent, Belgium (2019)
Shah, V.; Diehl, M.; Roters, F.: Prediction of Nucleation Sites During Recrystallization. M2i conference “Meeting Materials”, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands (2018)
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
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.
In this project, we work on a generic solution to design advanced high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with enhanced magnetic properties. By overturning the concept of stabilizing solid solutions in HEAs, we propose to render the massive solid solutions metastable and trigger spinodal decomposition. The motivation for starting from the HEA for this approach…
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.
In this project, we work on the use of a combinatorial experimental approach to design advanced multicomponent multi-functional alloys with rapid alloy prototyping. We use rapid alloy prototyping to investigate five multicomponent Invar alloys with 5 at.% addition of Al, Cr, Cu, Mn and Si to a super Invar alloy (Fe63Ni32Co5; at.%), respectively…