Publications

since inception of the Chair:

2024

Merle, B., Winczewski, J. P., Zeiler, S., Gabel, S., Maestre, D., Gardeniers, J. G. E., & Susarrey Arce, A. (2024). Additive manufacturing of 3D yttria-stabilized zirconia microarchitectures. Materials & Design, 238, 112701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112701
Krapf, A., Merle, B., Gebhart, D. D., Reiter, M., Lassnig, A., Göken, M., Cordill, M. J., & Gammer, C. (2024). Observing High‐Cycle Fatigue Damage in Freestanding Gold Thin Films with Bulge Testing and Intermittent Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2400216. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202400216
Rothermel, F., Thiele, S., Krapf, A., Ilse, S. E., Merle, B., Giessen, H., Herkommer, A. M., & Jung, C. (2024). Fabrication and Characterization of a Magnetic 3D-printed Microactuator. Advanced Materials Technologies, 2302196. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202302196

2023

Gebhart, D. D., Krapf, A., Merle, B., Gammer, C., & Cordill, M. J. (2023). Describing mechanical damage evolution through in situ electrical resistance measurements. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, 41(2), 023408. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0002362
Morales, L. A., Bezold, A., Foerner, A., Holz, H., Merle, B., Neumeier, S., Koerner, C., & Zenk, C. H. (2023). Influence of Cu Addition and Microstructural Configuration on the Creep Resistance and Mechanical Properties of an Fe-Based α/α′/α″ Superalloy. Advanced Engineering Materials, 25(9), 202201652. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202201652
Sommer, N., Bauer, A., Kahlmeyer, M., Wegener, T., Degener, S., Liehr, A., Bolender, A., Vollmer, M., Holz, H., Zeiler, S., Merle, B., Niendorf, T., & Böhm, S. (2023). High-Throughput Alloy Development Using Advanced Characterization Techniques During Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2023, 2300030. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300030
Rothammer, B., Schwendner, M., Bartz, M., Wartzack, S., Boehm, T., Krauss, S., Merle, B., Schroeder, S., Uhler, M., Kretzer, J. P., Weihnacht, V., & Marian, M. (2023). Wear Mechanism of Superhard Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon (ta-C) Coatings for Biomedical Applications. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10(7), 2202370. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202202370
Marian, M., Zambrano, D. F., Rothammer, B., Waltenberger, V., Boidi, G., Krapf, A., Merle, B., Stampfl, J., Rosenkranz, A., Gachot, C., & Grützmacher, P. G. (2023). Combining multi-scale surface texturing and DLC coatings for improved tribological performance of 3D printed polymers. Surface and Coatings Technology, 466, 129682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2023.129682
Yang, Z., Huber, F., Krapf, A., Merle, B., Markl, M., Schmidt, M., & Körner, C. (2023). Revealing bulk metallic glass crystallization kinetics during laser powder bed fusion by a combination of experimental and numerical methods. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 619, 122532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2023.122532
Haušild, P., Cech, J., Karlík, M., Legros, M., Nohava, J., & Merle, B. (2023). Indentation Size Effect in Electrodeposited Nickel with Different Grain Size and Crystal Orientation. Crystals, 13(9), 1385. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13091385
Holz, H., & Merle, B. (2023). Novel nanoindentation strain rate sweep method for continuously investigating the strain rate sensitivity of materials at the nanoscale. Materials & Design, 236, 112471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.112471
Krapf, A., Gebhart, D. D., Gammer, C., Cordill,, M. J., & Merle, B. (2023). Creep-dominated fatigue of freestanding gold thin films studied by bulge testing. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 887, 145759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145759
Winczewski, J. P., Zeiler, S., Gabel, S., Susarrey-Arce, A., Gardeniers, J. G. E., & Merle, B. (2023). Exploring the mechanical properties of additively manufactured carbon-rich zirconia 3D microarchitectures. Materials & Design, 232, 112142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.112142

2022

Wallis, D., Wang, D., Harris, J., Böhm, C. F., Zavattieri, P., Feldner, P., Merle, B., Pipich, V., Hurle, K., Leupold, S., Hansen, L. H., Marin, F., & Wolf, S. E. (2022). Progressive changes in crystallographic textures of biominerals generate functionally graded ceramics. Materials Advances, 3(3), 1527–1538. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ma01031j
Wallis, D., Harris, J., Böhm, C. F., Di, W., Zavattieri, P., Feldner, P., Merle, B., Pipich, V., Hurle, K., Leupold, S., Hansen, L., Marin, F., & Wolf, S. E. (2022). Correction: Progressive changes in crystallographic textures of biominerals generate functionally graded ceramics. Materials Advances, 3(5), 2598. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA90020C
Winczewski, J., Herrera, M., Cabriel, C., Izeddin, I., Gabel, S., Merle, B., Susarrey Arce, A., & Gardeniers, H. (2022). Additive Manufacturing of 3D Luminescent ZrO 2 :Eu 3+ Architectures. Advanced Optical Materials, 10(12), 2102758. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202102758
Maier-Kiener, V., Lawrence, S., & Merle, B. (2022). 30 Years of Oliver–Pharr: Then, Now and the Future of Nanoindentation. Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 74(6), 2177–2178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05305-0
Yang, Z., Wang, H., Krauß, S., Huber, F., Merle, B., Schmidt, M., Markl, M., & Körner, C. (2022). Evolution of an industrial-grade Zr-based bulk metallic glass during multiple laser beam melting. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 589(8), 121649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2022.121649
Akhlaghi, M., Hock, R., Dallmann, J., Krapf, A., Merle, B., Hofsäss, H., Körner, C., & Leineweber, A. (2022). Gaseous nitriding of Co-10 at% and -15 at% Cr alloys at 400 °C and 450 °C. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 907, 164535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.164535
Gebhart, D., Krapf, A., Gammer, C., Merle, B., & Cordill, M. (2022). Linking through-thickness cracks in metallic thin films to in-situ electrical resistance peak broadening. Scripta Materialia, 212, 114550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2022.114550
Luo, N., Galgon, F., Krauß, S., Morales, L., Merle, B., Zenk, C., & Körner, C. (2022). Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties in Zr–Cu–Al–Nb bulk metallic glass composites prepared by laser metal deposition. Intermetallics, 140, 107393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2021.107393
Bykova, E., Johansson, E., Bykov, M., Chariton, S., Fei, H., Ovsyannikov, S., Aslandukova, A., Gabel, S., Holz, H., Merle, B., Alling, B., Abrikosov, I., Smith, J., Prakapenka, V., Katsura, T., Dubrovinskaia, N., Goncharov, A., & Dubrovinsky, L. (2022). Novel Class of Rhenium Borides Based on Hexagonal Boron Networks Interconnected by Short B2 Dumbbells. Chemistry of Materials, 34(18), 8138–8152. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00520
Lubauer, J., Ast, J., Göken, M., Merle, B., Lohbauer, U., & Belli, R. (2022). Resistance-curve envelopes for dental lithium disilicate glass-ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 42(5), 2516–2522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.01.013
Krauß, S., Seynstahl, A., Tremmel, S., Meyer, B., Bitzek, E., Göken, M., Yokosawa, T., Apeleo-Zubiri, B., Spiecker, E., & Merle, B. (2022). Structural reorientation and compaction of porous MoS2 coatings during wear testing. Wear, 500-501, 204339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2022.204339
Gabel, S., Merle, B., Bitzek, E., & Göken, M. (2022). A new method for microscale cyclic crack growth characterization from notched microcantilevers and application to single crystalline tungsten and a metallic glass. Journal of Materials Research, 37(12), 2061–2072. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-022-00618-x
Bykova, E., Ovsyannikov, S., Bykov, M., Yin, Y., Fedotenko, T., Holz, H., Gabel, S., Merle, B., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, B. V., Dubrovinskaia, N., Goncharov, F. A., & Dubrovinsky, L. (2022). Synthesis, crystal structure, and properties of stoichiometric hard tungsten tetraboride, WB₄. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 37(10), 20111–20120. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TA02268K