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)
Kim, M.; Kiranbabu, S.; Ponge, D.; Soo Park, E.: Prediction of reversion kinetics in medium Mn steel by linking real experimental data with diffusion simulation. Materials and Design 258, 114631 (2025)
Shi, H.; Hachet, G.; Cheng, H.; Prithiv, T. S.; Ponge, D.; Sun, B.: Improving hydrogen embrittlement resistance of martensitic steel via interface B segregation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 164, 150954 (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)
Saksena, A.; Sun, B.; Dong, X.; Khanchandani, H.; Ponge, D.; Gault, B.: Optimizing site-specific specimen preparation for atom probe tomography by using hydrogen for visualizing radiation-induced damage. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 50 (Part A), pp. 165 - 174 (2024)
Elkot, M.; Sun, B.; Zhou, X.; Ponge, D.; Raabe, D.: On the formation and growth of grain boundary k-carbides in austenitic high-Mn lightweight steels. Materials Research Letters 12 (1), pp. 10 - 16 (2024)
Shi, H.; Nandy, S.; Cheng, H.; Sun, B.; Ponge, D.: In-situ investigation of the interaction between hydrogen and stacking faults in a bulk austenitic steel. Acta Materialia 262, 119441 (2024)
Sukumar Prithiv, T.; Gault, B.; Li, Y.; Andersen, D.; Valle, N.; Eswara, S.; Ponge, D.; Raabe, D.: Austenite grain boundary segregation and precipitation of boron in low-C steels and their role on the heterogeneous nucleation of ferrite. Acta Materialia 252, 118947 (2023)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of steel is a great challenge in engineering applications. However, the HE mechanisms are not fully understood. Conventional studies of HE are mostly based on post mortem observations of the microstructure evolution and those results can be misleading due to intermediate H diffusion. Therefore, experiments with a…
Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
We plan to investigate the rate-dependent tensile properties of 2D materials such as metal thin films and PbMoO4 (PMO) films by using a combination of a novel plan-view FIB based sample lift out method and a MEMS based in situ tensile testing platform inside a TEM.
This project aims to investigate the influence of grain boundaries on mechanical behavior at ultra-high strain rates and low temperatures. For this micropillar compressions on copper bi-crystals containing different grain boundaries will be performed.