Frank, A.; Dias, M.; Hieke, S. W.; Kruth, A.; Scheu, C.: Spontaneous fluctuations in a plasma ion assisted deposition – correlation between deposition conditions and vanadium oxide thin film growth. Thin Solid Films 722, 138574 (2021)
Frank, A.; Wochnik, A. S.; Bein, T.; Scheu, C.: A biomolecule-assisted, cost-efficient route for growing tunable CuInS2 films for green energy application. RSC Advances 7 (33), pp. 20219 - 20230 (2017)
Hettstedt, C.; Frank, A.; Karaghiosoff, K.: Synthesis of two p-methoxyphenyl substituted phosphines. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements 191 (10), pp. 1297 - 1301 (2016)
Frank, A.; Changizi, R.; Scheu, C.: Preparative and analytical challenges in electron microscopic investigation of nanostructured CuInS2 thin films for energy applications. Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC) 2019, Manchester, UK (2019)
Gänsler, T.; Frank, A.; Betzler, S. B.; Scheu, C.: Electron microscopy studies of Nb3O7(OH) nanostructured cubes - insights in the growth mechanism. Microscience Microscopy Congress MMC2019, Manchester, UK (2019)
Frank, A.; Dias, M.; Hieke, S. W.; Kruth, A.; Scheu, C.: Electron microscopic investigation of the influence of plasma parameters on VOx films deposited by a plasma ion assisted process. E-MRS 2019 Spring Meeting, Nice, France (2019)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
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…
Conventional alloy development methodologies which specify a single base element and several alloying elements have been unable to introduce new alloys at an acceptable rate for the increasingly specialised application requirements of modern technologies. An alternative alloy development strategy searches the previously unexplored central regions…
The full potential of energy materials can only be exploited if the interplay between mechanics and chemistry at the interfaces is well known. This leads to more sustainable and efficient energy solutions.
This project aims to correlate the localised electrical properties of ceramic materials and the defects present within their microstructure. A systematic approach has been developed to create crack-free deformation in oxides through nanoindentation, while the localised defects are probed in-situ SEM to study the electronic properties. A coupling…