Scientific Breakthrough

A research team from the Department of Materials Science at FAU and CENEM has made a significant step forward in understanding how platinum single atoms (Pt SAs) behave under thermal conditions on titanium dioxide (TiO₂) surfaces—crucial knowledge for advancing photocatalytic hydrogen generation. Th...

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IMN/CENEM researchers recently published their study on the “Influence of substrate polarity on thermal stability, grain growth and atomic interface structure of Au thin films on ZnO surfaces” in Acta Materialia (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120531). The work was carried out in close colla...

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IMN/CENEM is proud to announce the publication of a collaborative study entitled "Microscopic mechanism of the L1₂–D0₁₉ phase transformation in a Co-base single crystal superalloy" in Acta Materialia! This study offers novel insights into the atomic-level processes governing an often-observed phase ...

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The paper “Influence of Au alloying on solid state dewetting kinetics and texture evolution of Ag and Ni thin films” by Martin Dierner, Johannes Will, Michael Landes, Christian Volland, Robert Branscheid, Tobias Zech, Tobias Unruh and Erdmann Spiecker has just been published in the Journal of Surfac...

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