Jentner, R.; Scholl, S.; Srivastava, K.; Best, J. P.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: Local strength of bainitic and ferritic HSLA steel constituents understood using correlative electron microscopy and microcompression testing. Materials and Design 236, 112507 (2023)
Jentner, R.; Tsai, S.-P.; Welle, A.; Scholl, S.; Srivastava, K.; Best, J. P.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: Automated classification of granular bainite and polygonal ferrite by electron backscatter diffraction verified through local structural and mechanical analyses. Journal of Materials Research 38 (18), pp. 4177 - 4191 (2023)
Li, J.; Pharr, G. M.; Kirchlechner, C.: Quantitative insights into the dislocation source behavior of twin boundaries suggest a new dislocation source mechanism. Journal of Materials Research 36 (10), pp. 2037 - 2046 (2021)
Tian, C.; Dehm, G.; Kirchlechner, C.: Influence of strain rate on the activation of {110}, {112}, {123} slip in ferrite of DP800. Materialia 15, 100983 (2021)
Tian, C.; Kirchlechner, C.: The fracture toughness of martensite islands in dual-phase DP800 steel. Journal of Materials Research 36, pp. 2495 - 2504 (2021)
The mission of our group is to uncover the fundamental mechanisms of deformation and degradation in battery systems and to leverage mechanical principles to design damage-resilient energy storage systems.
Here the focus lies on investigating the temperature dependent deformation of material interfaces down to the individual microstructural length-scales, such as grain/phase boundaries or hetero-interfaces, to understand brittle-ductile transitions in deformation and the role of chemistry or crystallography on it.
The group aims at unraveling the inner workings of ion batteries, with a focus on probing the microstructural and interfacial character of electrodes and electrolytes that control ionic transport and insertion into the electrode.
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.