Papers

Two research papers from the high-temperature group have been published recently in the Proceedings of Superalloys 2020. The principal goal of the symposium is to highlight new initiatives and future growth opportunities for superalloys that are used in gas turbine engines and related applications. ...

A special edition of Advanced Engineering Materials, one of the major scientific journals for materials science, is available as of today: The "Special Issue: Materials Science and Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)" with specialist contributions from scientist...

The paper "Segregation-assisted climb of Frank partial dislocations: An alternative route to superintrinsic stacking faults in L12-hardened superalloys" by Malte Lenz, Mingjian Wu and Erdmann Spiecker has recently been published in Acta Materialia. Congratulations! As the fundamental carrier o...

The paper "Unraveling the Complex Nanomorphology of Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Multimodal Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy" by Dr. Stefanie Rechberger and colleagues has recently been published in Solar RRL. In this paper, the successful discrimination and spatial mapping of the act...

FAU scientists develop method for cleaning surfaces at the nanoscale A team of scientists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has developed a novel mechanical cleaning method for surfaces on the nanoscale. The technique successfully removes even the tiniest contaminants down...

The paper “A versatile diffraction technique in SEM” by Peter Schweizer, Peter Denninger, Christian Dolle and Erdmann Spiecker is recently published in Ultramicroscopy. This work demonstrates a novel setup for transmission diffraction in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and its applications. Us...

A paper by Malte Lenz, Janis Wirth, and colleagues, entitled "Correlative Nano‐Computed Tomography and Focused Ion‐Beam Sectioning: A Case Study on a Co‐Base Superalloy Oxide Scale" was recently published in Advanced Engineering Materials. In this work, a correlative tomography approach combining...

A collaborative "Highly Effective Propane Dehydrogenation Using Ga−Rh Supported Catalytically Active Liquid Metal Solutions" has been recently published in ACS Catalysis. This work was contributed by a team of scientist in Erlangen including Chemists, Experimental/Theoretical Physcists, Materials Sc...

Transition metal oxides, such as TiO2, ZnO or MoO2, and transition metal chalcogenides like WS2 or MoS2 represent two classes of functional materials, both hold great promise for applications in nanotechnology, ranging from energy storage to microelectronics. In a recent work "Transforming layered M...

The tension/compression asymmetries of materials, i.e., changing the mechanism loading directions while keeping all other parameters identical, is particularly interesting as it provides insight into the elementary defect mechanisms. In a recent work published in Acta Materialia (click here), resear...