Publications of the Sustainable Synthesis of Materials Group

Shankar, S.; Ratzker, B.; Ma, Y.; Raabe, D.: Hydrogen-based direct reduction of multicomponent oxides: Insights from powder and pre-sintered precursors toward sustainable alloy design. Acta Materialia 301, 121528 (2025)

Zhou, X.; Bienvenu, B.; Wu, Y.; Kwiatkowski da Silva, A.; Ophus, C.; Raabe, D.: Complexions at the iron-magnetite interface. Nature Communications 16 (1), 2705 (2025)

Shankar, S.; Ratzker, B.; Kwiatkowski da Silva, A.; Schwarz, T.; Brouwer, H.; Gault, B.; Ma, Y.; Raabe, D.: Unraveling the thermodynamics and mechanism behind the lowering of direct reduction temperatures in oxide mixtures. Materials Today 90, pp. 43 - 51 (2025)

Dong, X.; Wei, S.; Tehranchi, A.; Saksena, A.; Ponge, D.; Sun, B.; Raabe, D.: The dual role of boron on hydrogen embrittlement: example of interface-related hydrogen effects in an austenite-ferrite two-phase lightweight steel. Acta Materialia 299, 121458 (2025)

Nutor, R.; Ruffino, M.; Miles, A.; Joshi, Y.; Woods, E.; Kamran Bhat, M.; Jannat, S.; Manzoor, U.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Raabe, D. et al.; Gault, B.: Enabling circularity of copper through nanoscale impurity control. Acta Materialia 297, 121373 (2025)

Srinivas Varanasi, R.; Waseda, O.; Syed, F. W.; Prithiv, T. S.; Gault, B.; Neugebauer, J.; Ponge, D.: Temperature and misorientation-dependent austenite nucleation at ferrite grain boundaries in a medium manganese steel: role of misorientation-dependent grain boundary segregation. Acta Materialia 296, 121242 (2025)

Pauna, H.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Kulse, M.; Jovičević-Klug, M.; Springer, H.; Huttula, M.; Fabritius, T.; Raabe, D.: In Situ Observation of Sustainable Hematite-Magnetite-Wustite-Iron Hydrogen Plasma Reduction. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 56 (4), pp. 3938 - 3949 (2025)

Ratzker, B.; Ruffino, M.; Shankar, S.; Raabe, D.; Ma, Y.: Elucidating the microstructure evolution during hydrogen-based direct reduction via a case study of single crystal hematite. Acta Materialia 294, 121174 (2025)

Sun, Y.; Pauna, H.; Gabriela Torres Mejia, L.; Klapproth, D.; Manzoor, U.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Tanskanen, P.; Fabritius, T.; Raabe, D.: Monitoring Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction of Ilmenite by Optical Emission Spectroscopy at Laboratory Scale. Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy 11 (3), pp. 3117 - 3130 (2025)

Jovičević-Klug, M.; Brondin, C. A.; Caretta, A.; Bonnekoh, C.; Gossing, F.; Vogel, A.; Rieth, M.; McCord, J.; Rohwerder, M.; Jovičević-Klug, P.: Suppression of Cr nanoclusters and enrichments in Fe–Cr based alloys with cryogenic processing for future energy sector. Journal of Materials Research and Technology 36, pp. 9262 - 9273 (2025)

Putaala, H.-R.; Pauna, H.; Javed, A.; Manzoor, U.; Klapproth, D.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Visuri, V.-V.; Ganguly, A.; Huttula, M.; Fabritius, T. et al.; Raabe, D.: Effect of Furnace Parameters on Optical Emission Spectra of Hematite Reduction by Hydrogen Plasma. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (2025)

Wu, C.; Gong, Y.; Liu, C.; Li, X.; Gizer, G.; Pistidda, C.; Körmann, F.; Ma, Y.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Hydrogen accommodation and its role in lattice symmetry in a TiNbZr medium-entropy alloy. Acta Materialia 288, 120852 (2025)

Schönfeldt, M.; Rossa, J.; Opelt, K.; Schäfer, K.; Schäfer, L.; Maccari, F.; Jovičević-Klug, M.; Schwarz, T.; Lin, C.-C.; Hasan, M. et al.; Gassmann, J.; Raabe, D.; Gutfleisch, O.: Functional recycling of grain boundary diffusion processed Nd–Fe–B sintered magnets. Acta Materialia 283, 120532 (2025)

Tegg, L.; Ostergaard, H. E.; Jovičević-Klug, M.; Jovičević-Klug, P.; Wu, C.-M.; Cairney, J. M.: In-situ SANS for the kinetic analysis of β″ precipitation in an Al-Mg-Si alloy following deep cryogenic treatment. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 180371 (2025)

Wei, S.; Ma, Y.; Raabe, D.: Reactive vapor-phase dealloying-alloying turns oxides into sustainable bulk nano-structured porous alloys. Science Advances 10 (51), eads2140 (2024)

Hachet, G.; Tehranchi, A.; Shi, H.; Prabhakar, J. M.; Wei, S.; Angenendt, K.; Zaefferer, S.; Gault, B.; Sun, B.; Ponge, D. et al.; Raabe, D.: Segregation at prior austenite grain boundaries: The competition between boron and hydrogen. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 95, pp. 734 - 746 (2024)

Han, L.; Mu, W.; Wei, S.; Liaw, P.; Raabe, D.: Sustainable high-entropy materials? Science Advances 10 (50), eads3926 (2024)

Han, Y.; Chen, H.; Sun, Y.; Liu, J.; Wei, S.; Xie, B.; Zhang, Z.; Zhu, Y.; Li, M.; Yang, J. et al.; Chen, W.; Cao, P.; Yang, Y.: Ubiquitous short-range order in multi-principal element alloys. Nature Communications 15 (1), 6486 (2024)

Geng, X.; Vega-Paredes, M.; Wang, Z.; Ophus, C.; Lu, P.; Ma, Y.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.; Liebscher, C.; Gault, B.: Grain boundary engineering for efficient and durable electrocatalysis. Nature Communications 15, 8534 (2024)

Yu, J.; Wang, Z.; Saksena, A.; Wei, S.; Wei, Y.; Colnaghi, T.; Marek, A.; Rampp, M.; Song, M.; Gault, B. et al.; Li, Y.: 3D deep learning for enhanced atom probe tomography analysis of nanoscale microstructures. Acta Materialia 278, 120280 (2024)