Swaminathan, S.; Spiegel, M.; Rohwerder, M.: Effect of annealing conditions on the selective oxidation of quarternary model alloy. 4th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, Barcelona, Spain (2008)
Swaminathan, S.; Koll, T.; Pohl, M.; Spiegel, M.: Hot-dip galvanizing simulation of model alloys and industrial steel grades: Correlation between surface chemistry and wettability. GALVATECH `07, 7th International Conference on Zinc and Zinc Alloy Coated Steel Sheet, Osaka, Japan (2007)
Swaminathan, S.; Spiegel, M.: Effect of alloy composition on the selective oxidation of ternary Fe–Si–Cr, Fe–Mn–Cr model alloys. ECASIA 2007, 12th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis, Brussels-Flggey, Belgium (2007)
Auinger, M.; Swaminathan, S.; Rohwerder, M.: The Influence of Oxide Formation on the Diffusion Properties in Iron Alloys - The Thermogravimetric Behaviour in Early Stages of Oxidation. Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on High Temperature Corrosion and Gordon-Research Conference on High Temperature Corrosion, New London, NH, USA (2011)
Vogel, D.; Swaminathan, S.; Rohwerder, M.; Renner, F. U.: Possibilities for high-temperature corrosion at MPIE. International Symposium on High-temperature Oxidation and Corrosion, Zushi, Japan (2010)
Vogel, A.; Swaminathan, S.; Vogel, D.; Rohwerder, M.: Novel Setup for Metal/Gas Reactions at High Temperature. 6th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids: Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer and Microstructure and Properties, Paris, France (2010)
Swaminathan, S.: Selective surface oxidation and segregation upon short term annealing of model alloys and industrial steel grades. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Bochum, Germany (2007)
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.
This work led so far to several high impact publications: for the first time nanobeam diffraction (NBD) orientation mapping was used on atom probe tips, thereby enabling the high throughput characterization of grain boundary segregation as well as the crystallographic identification of phases.