Publications of the Sustainable Synthesis of Materials Group

Hachet, G.; Wei, S.; Tehranchi, A.; Dong, X.; Lestang, J.; Zhang, A.; Sun, B.; Zaefferer, S.; Gault, B.; Ponge, D. et al.; Raabe, D.: Protection of metal interfaces against hydrogen-assisted cracking. Nature Communications 16 (1), 11032 (2025)

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)

Trinca, A.; Verdone, N.; Özgün, Ö.; Ma, Y.; Filho, I.; Raabe, D.; Vilardi, G.: Sustainable ironmaking from low-grade iron ores: A kinetic study on thermal decomposition and reduction of iron (II) oxalate. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 13 (6), 119573 (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)

Manzoor, U.; Lüttke, T.; Raabe, D.; Souza Filho, I.: Low-waste, single-step, sustainable extraction of critical metals from deep-sea polymetallic nodules. Science Advances 11 (47), eaea1223 (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)

Torres-Mejia, L.; Manzoor, U.; Guo, G.; Bumby, C.; Raabe, D.; Souza Filho, I. R.: Toward decarbonization of the titanium industry via hydrogen plasma smelting reduction. Advanced Science, e14689 (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)

Shelyug, A.; Pauna, H.; Springer, H.; Souza Filho, I. R.: Puppet Strings of Hydrogen Plasma Reduction of Iron Ores: The Impact of Process Parameters on Plasma Properties and Reduction Kinetics. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 56 (5), pp. 5232 - 5245 (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)

Ro, I. -.; Lee, C.-G.; Aota, L. S.; Choi, W.; Won, S.; Ahn, J.-P.; Kim, H.-R.; Choi, G.; Gault, B.; Kim, S.-H.: Influence of chemical composition and microstructure on fatigue performance of reinforcing steel. Journal of Materials Research and Technology 36, pp. 2589 - 2599 (2025)

Manzoor, U.; Mújica Roncery, L.; Raabe, D.; Souza Filho, I. R.: Sustainable nickel enabled by hydrogen-based reduction. Nature 641 (8062), pp. 365 - 373 (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 56, pp. 3381 - 3399 (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 2025, 180371 (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)