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Ni-based superalloys exhibit outstanding high-temperature mechanical properties, which makes them uniquely suitable for modern jet engines and power plants. Their superb high-temperature performance (e.g., creep strength, oxidation resistance) are to large parts governed by the elementary processes ...

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. ...

Wie lassen sich ultradünne Beschichtungen von einigen Nanometern gezielt herstellen? Darüber hat sich der Erlanger Bundestagsabgeordnete Stefan Müller bei einem Besuch am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Nanostrukturierte Filme (IZNF) der FAU informiert. Zu Beginn des Besuchs in dem neu errichteten...

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...

What began as a sport to compensate for the often long day in the lab has become a passion: our colleague Lilian Vogl has accepted the challenge of the Germany Tour stage from Ebensfeld to Erlangen. Together with a group of enthusiastic racing cyclists, she arrived at the finish after 87 km at the r...

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...