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70
Citations
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4447
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogen behavior in metals and solute/defect interactions in other materials.
  • 2004 - Heyn Commemorative Medal

Overview

Reiner Kirchheim is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Engineering and Materials Science, with particular attention to Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Metals and Alloys.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kirchheim are:

  • Cynthia A. Volkert
  • Masanobu KUBOTA
  • Petros Sofronis
  • Lin Tian
  • C. Borchers

The venues where Kirchheim has commonly published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Acta Materialia
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Scripta Materialia
  • Advanced Engineering Materials

Recent publications by Kirchheim demonstrate a range of topics and collaborations, including:

  • Achieving a Carbon Neutral Future through Advanced Functional Materials and Technologies, 2022, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • A study of crack initiation in a low alloy steel, 2021, Acta Materialia
  • Onset of electronic conductivity in nanometer thick films of yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) at high electric fields, 2022, Acta Materialia
  • Influence of element distribution on mechanical properties in the bonding zone of explosively welded steels, 2021, Scripta Materialia
  • Control of Microstructure in Iron-Carbon Thin Films by Means of Electromigration, 2023, Advanced Engineering Materials

Kirchheim has been recognized with awards such as the Heyn Commemorative Medal in 2004 and membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2017. The latter was awarded for contributions to the thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogen behavior in metals and solute/defect interactions in other materials.

Best Publications

  • HYDROGEN IN METALS: Microstructural Aspects

    A. Pundt;R. Kirchheim

  • Grain coarsening inhibited by solute segregation

    Reiner Kirchheim

  • Hydrogen interactions with defects in crystalline solids

    S. M. Myers;M. I. Baskes;H. K. Birnbaum;J. W. Corbett

  • Reducing grain boundary, dislocation line and vacancy formation energies by solute segregation. I. Theoretical background

    Reiner Kirchheim

  • Hydrogen solubility and diffusivity in defective and amorphous metals

    Reiner Kirchheim

  • The passivity of iron-chromium alloys

    R. Kirchheim;B. Heine;H. Fischmeister;S. Hofmann

  • Reducing grain boundary, dislocation line and vacancy formation energies by solute segregation: II. Experimental evidence and consequences

    Reiner Kirchheim

  • Atomic-scale mechanisms of deformation-induced cementite decomposition in pearlite

    Y. J. Li;P. Choi;C. Borchers;S. Westerkamp

  • Solubility, diffusivity and trapping of hydrogen in dilute alloys. Deformed and amorphous metals—II

    R. Kirchheim

  • Segregation and diffusion of hydrogen in grain boundaries of palladium

    T. Mütschele;R. Kirchheim

  • Hydrogen as a probe for the average thickness of a grain boundary

    T. Mütschele;R. Kirchheim

  • Segregation stabilizes nanocrystalline bulk steel with near theoretical strength.

    Yujiao Li;Yujiao Li;Dierk Raabe;Michael Herbig;Pyuck-Pa Choi

  • Hydrogen in amorphous metals—I

    R. Kirchheim;F. Sommer;G. Schluckebier

  • Nano-scale grain growth inhibited by reducing grain boundary energy through solute segregation

    Feng Liu;Reiner Kirchheim

  • Stress and electromigration in Al-lines of integrated circuits

    R. Kirchheim

  • Evolution of strength and microstructure during annealing of heavily cold-drawn 6.3 GPa hypereutectoid pearlitic steel wire

    Y. J. Li;P. Choi;S. Goto;C. Borchers

  • Revisiting hydrogen embrittlement models and hydrogen-induced homogeneous nucleation of dislocations

    Reiner Kirchheim

  • Phosphorus segregation in nanocrystalline Ni–3.6 at.% P alloy investigated with the tomographic atom probe (TAP)

    B. Färber;E. Cadel;A. Menand;G. Schmitz

  • Hydrogen in amorphous and nanocrystalline metals

    R. Kirchheim;T. Mütschele;W. Kieninger;H. Gleiter

  • Metallic composites processed via extreme deformation: Toward the limits of strength in bulk materials

    Dierk Raabe;Pyuck-Pa Choi;Yujiao Li;Aleksander Kostka

  • Nanocrystalline Ni-3.6 at.% P and its transformation sequence studied by atom-probe field-ion microscopy

    Th Hentschel;D Isheim;R Kirchheim;F Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Pyuck-Pa Choi
Pyuck-Pa Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dierk Raabe
Dierk Raabe Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Dirk Ponge
Dirk Ponge Max Planck Society
Jörg Neugebauer
Jörg Neugebauer Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Stefan Zaefferer
Stefan Zaefferer Max Planck Society
Aleksander Kostka
Aleksander Kostka Ruhr University Bochum
Petros Athanasios Sofronis
Petros Athanasios Sofronis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cynthia A. Volkert
Cynthia A. Volkert University of Göttingen
Tilmann Hickel
Tilmann Hickel Max Planck Society
Hamish L. Fraser
Hamish L. Fraser The Ohio State University

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