Grabowski, B.: Modern materials design from first-principles: Recent progress and future prospects. Seminar, Imperial College London, London, UK (2015)
Grabowski, B.: Ab initio thermodynamics of the CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy: Importance of entropy contributions beyond the configurational one. ICAMS Seminar, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2015)
Grabowski, B.: Random phase approximation up to the melting point: The impact of anharmonicity and non-local many-body effects on the thermodynamics of Au. MISIS Workshop, Moscow, Russia (2015)
Körmann, F.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Temperature-dependent coupling of atomic and magnetic degree of freedom from first-principles. Electronic Structure Theory for the Accelerated Design of Structural Materials, Moscow, Russia (2015)
Grabowski, B.; Wippermann, S. M.; Glensk, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Random phase approximation up to the melting point: Impact of anharmonicity and nonlocal many-body effects on the thermodynamics of Au. DPG Spring Meeting 2015, Berlin, Germany (2015)
Hickel, T.; Glensk, A.; Grabowski, B.; Körmann, F.; Neugebauer, J.: Thermodynamics of materials up to the melting point: The role of anharmonicities. Asia Sweden Meeting on Understanding Functional Materials from Lattice dynamics, Guwahati, India (2014)
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.