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Gerhard Dehm is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and materials science, with significant contributions also made within subfields such as materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their body of work covers a variety of main topics, including microstructure and mechanical properties, metal and thin film mechanics, advanced materials characterization techniques, aluminum alloys composites properties, high entropy alloys studies, microstructure and mechanical properties of steels, and advanced materials and composites.

Dehm has published frequently in several scientific venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Acta Materialia
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Materials & Design

Among the recent scholarly articles featuring Dehm's work are:

  • Unveiling the Re effect in Ni-based single crystal superalloys, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Observations of grain-boundary phase transformations in an elemental metal, 2020, Nature
  • Reactive wear protection through strong and deformable oxide nanocomposite surfaces, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Understanding grain boundary electrical resistivity in Cu: the effect of boundary structure, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Crystal-Glass High-Entropy Nanocomposites with Near Theoretical Compressive Strength and Large Deformability, 2020, Advanced Materials

In their collaborative work, Dehm has frequently co-authored with several researchers, including:

  • Christian H. Liebscher
  • James P. Best
  • Christoph Kirchlechner
  • Tobias Brink
  • Baptiste Gault

Best Publications

  • A further step towards an understanding of size-dependent crystal plasticity: In situ tension experiments of miniaturized single-crystal copper samples

    Daniel Kiener;Wolfgang Grosinger;Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm;Reinhard Pippan

  • FIB damage of Cu and possible consequences for miniaturized mechanical tests

    Daniel Kiener;Christian Motz;Martin Rester;Monika Jenko

  • Observation of Giant Diffusivity Along Dislocation Cores

    Marc Legros;Gerhard Dehm;Eduard Arzt;T. John Balk

  • In situ observation of dislocation nucleation and escape in a submicrometre aluminium single crystal.

    Sang Ho Oh;Marc Legros;Daniel Kiener;Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm

  • Overview on micro- and nanomechanical testing: New insights in interface plasticity and fracture at small length scales

    Gerhard Dehm;Balila Nagamani Jaya;Rejin Raghavan;Christoph Kirchlechner

  • A comparative micro-cantilever study of the mechanical behavior of silicon based passivation films

    Kurt Matoy;Helmut Schönherr;Thomas Detzel;Thomas Schöberl

  • Micro-compression testing: A critical discussion of experimental constraints

    Daniel Kiener;Christian Motz;Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm

  • Determination of Mechanical Properties of Copper at the Micron Scale

    Daniel Kiener;Christian Motz;Thomas Schöberl;Monika Jenko

  • Trends in the Development of New Mg Alloys

    Menachem S. Bamberger;Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm

  • Bidirectional Transformation Enables Hierarchical Nanolaminate Dual‐Phase High‐Entropy Alloys

    Wenjun Lu;Christian H. Liebscher;Gerhard Dehm;Dierk Raabe

  • Importance and Challenges of Electrochemical in Situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy for Energy Conversion Research

    Nejc Hodnik;Gerhard Dehm;Karl J. J. Mayrhofer;Karl J. J. Mayrhofer;Karl J. J. Mayrhofer

  • Observations of grain-boundary phase transformations in an elemental metal.

    Thorsten Meiners;Timofey Frolov;Robert E. Rudd;Gerhard Dehm

  • Unveiling the Re effect in Ni-based single crystal superalloys.

    Xiaoxiang Wu;Surendra Kumar Makineni;Christian H. Liebscher;Gerhard Dehm

  • Superlattice effect for enhanced fracture toughness of hard coatings

    Rainer Hahn;Matthias Bartosik;Rafael Soler;Christoph Kirchlechner;Christoph Kirchlechner

  • Reactive wear protection through strong and deformable oxide nanocomposite surfaces

    Chang Liu;Zhiming Li;Wenjun Lu;Wenjun Lu;Yan Bao

  • Can microscale fracture tests provide reliable fracture toughness values? A case study in silicon

    Balila Nagamani Jaya;Christoph Kirchlechner;Gerhard Dehm

  • Miniaturized single-crystalline fcc metals deformed in tension: New insights in size-dependent plasticity

    Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm

  • Differences in deformation behavior of bicrystalline Cu micropillars containing a twin boundary or a large-angle grain boundary

    Peter Julian Imrich;Christoph Kirchlechner;Christoph Kirchlechner;Christian Motz;Christian Motz;Gerhard Dehm;Gerhard Dehm

  • Understanding Grain Boundary Electrical Resistivity in Cu: The Effect of Boundary Structure.

    Hanna Bishara;Subin Lee;Subin Lee;Tobias Brink;Matteo Ghidelli;Matteo Ghidelli

  • Cyclic deformation of polycrystalline Cu films

    Ruth Schwaiger;Gerhard Dehm;Oliver Kraft

  • Grain refinement in γ-Ti–Al-based alloys by solid state phase transformations

    Helmut J. Clemens;Arno Bartels;Slawomir Bystrzanowski;Harald F. Chladil

  • Interface controlled plasticity in metals: dispersion hardening and thin film deformation

    Eduard Arzt;Eduard Arzt;Gerhard Dehm;Peter Gumbsch;Oliver Kraft

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society
Eduard Arzt
Eduard Arzt University of California, San Diego
Dierk Raabe
Dierk Raabe Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Helmut Clemens
Helmut Clemens University of Leoben
Daniel Kiener
Daniel Kiener University of Leoben
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Jochen M. Schneider
Jochen M. Schneider RWTH Aachen University
Zaoli Zhang
Zaoli Zhang Austrian Academy of Sciences
Reinhard Pippan
Reinhard Pippan Austrian Academy of Sciences
Manfred Rühle
Manfred Rühle Max Planck Society

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