Seminar DPPT: Jochen M. Schneider

We cordially invite you to a Department of Plasma Physics and Technology seminary lecture. The speaker is prof. Jochen M. Schneider of Materials Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His research focuses on the quantum-mechanically guided design of thin films with tailored thermal and chemical stability, as well as elasticity. He also designs self-reporting materials. 

Synthesis and oxidation behavior of transition metal aluminum diborides with varied compositional complexity

Eva Mayer¹, Amir Hossein Navidi Kashani¹, Stanislav Mráz¹, Damian M. Holzapfel¹, Marcus Hans¹, Lukas Löfler¹, Pavel Ondračka¹, Daniel Primetzhofer², Sebastian Lellig^1,3, Johann Michler^3,5, Peter Schweizer³, Arnold Müller⁴, Peter J. Pöllmann¹, Ganesh Kumar Nayak¹, Szilárd Kolozsvári⁶, Peter Polcik⁶, Janani Devi Ramesh¹, Zsolt Czigány⁷ and Jochen M. Schneider¹

¹Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University
²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University
³Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa
⁴Labor für Ionenstrahlphysik (LIP).HPK H32
⁵École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
⁶Plansee Composite Materials GmbH
⁷Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research

The oxidation behavior of TiAlB2, HfAlB2 and selected compositionally complex variants are compared. For TiAlB2 the effect of the metal to nonmetal ratio as well as the Al concentration is explored and compared to TiAlN. Similarities and differences of to the oxidation behavior of HfAlB2 will be discussed and compared to selected compositionally complex variants.