Papers

The article “Correlative laboratory Nano-CT and 360° electron tomography of macropore structures in hierarchical zeolites” by Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, Janis Wirth, Dominik Drobek, Silvan Englisch, Thomas Przybilla, Tobias Weissenberger, Wilhelm Schwieger, and Erdmann Spiecker has recently been publis...

The paper on “Microscopic Deformation Modes and Impact of Network Anisotropy on the Mechanical and Electrical Performance of Five-fold Twinned Silver Nanowire Electrodes” by Nadine Schrenker and colleagues has been recently published in ACS Nano. Congratulations! Silver nanowire (AgNW) network...

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. ...

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...