Papers

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...

Self-assembly processes play an important role in nature and often result in complex structures, e.g. in chlorophyll or in living organisms. Compact clusters of elemental particles can be shown to be of practical relevance, and are found in atomic nuclei, nanoparticles or viruses.   Self-as...

Earlier this year had been a dynamic and productive time for the team of high-temperature materials, which is a key collaboration partner in the SFB/TR 103. Besides the joining of new members in the group (DK), breakthroughs in the bottle-neck phase (ML) and harvesting phase of on-going PhD work (YM...

Researchers in IMN has recently reported the direct observation of nucleation and propagation of basal plane dislocations in Nb2AlC, a member of MAX phases, using nanomechanical testing inside a transmission electron microscope. MAX Phases (with M an early transition metal, A an A group element a...

A research article "A Novel Approach for Preparation and In Situ Tensile Testing of Silica Glass Membranes in the Transmission Electron Microscope" by our colleagues Mirza Mačković, Thomas Przybilla, Christel Dieker, Patrick Herre, Stefan Romeis, Hana Stara, Nadine Schrenker, Wolfgang Peukert and Er...

Research article "Correlative micro-diffraction and differential phase contrast study of mean inner potential and subtle beam-specimen interaction", by Mingjian Wu and Erdmann Spiecker, has been accepted for publication in the journal Ultramicroscopy. Probing nanometer scale electrostatic (Coulom...