Brink, T.; Bhat, M. K.; Best, J. P.; Dehm, G.: Grain-boundary segregation effects on bicrystal Cu pillar compression. DPG Spring Meeting, Dresden, Germany (2023)
Brink, T.: Atomistic simulations of grain boundary phases: From thermodynamics to mechanics. Seminar Materials Science and Technology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
, Bochum, Germany (2023)
Pemma, S.; Janisch, R.; Dehm, G.; Brink, T.: Deformation mechanism of complexions in a Cu grain boundary under shear. FEMS EUROMAT 2023, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2023)
Pemma, S.; Janisch, R.; Dehm, G.; Brink, T.: Disconnection activation in complexions of a Cu grain boundary under shear. 19th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL-2023), Heraklion, Greece (2023)
Pemma, S.; Brink, T.; Janisch, R.; Dehm, G.: Stress driven grain boundary migration for different complexions of a Cu tilt grain boundary. Materials Science and Engineering Congress 2022, Darmstadt, Germany (2022)
Brink, T.: Thermodynamics of grain boundary phases in fcc metals: Using atomistic simulations to augment and extend experimental insights. Materials Science Colloquium at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (2022)
Pemma, S.; Janisch, R.; Dehm, G.; Brink, T.: Atomistic simulation study of grain boundary migration for different complexions in copper. DPG-Tagung, Virtual (2021)
Brink, T.; Frommeyer, L.; Freitas, R.; Frolov, T.; Pemma, S.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Diffusionless congruent grain boundary phase transitions in metals: Simulation and experimental imaging. 2021 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research
Society
, Virtual (2021)
Frommeyer, L.; Brink, T.; Freitas, R.; Frolov, T.; Dehm, G.; Liebscher, C.: Congruent grain boundary phase transformations revealed by STEM in pure copper. Microscopy conference Joint Meeting of Dreiländertagungn & Multinational Congress on Microscopy MC 2021, virtual, Vienna, Austria (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.