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)
Bhattacharya, A.; Barik, R. K.; Nandy, S.; Sen, M.; Prithiv, T. S.; Patra, S.; Mitra, R.; Chakrabarti, D.; Ghosh, A.: Effect of martensite twins on local scale cleavage crack propagation in a medium carbon armor grade steel. Materialia 30, 101800 (2023)
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)
Prithiv, T. S.; Thirumurugan, G.; Madan, M.; Kamaraj, A.: Thermodynamic Assessment of Steelmaking Practices for the Production of Re-sulfur Steels. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 73 (6), pp. 1595 - 1603 (2020)
Srikakulapu, K.; Morsdorf, L.; Tung, P.-Y.; Prithiv, T. S.; Herbig, M.: Cementite decomposition in 100Cr6 bearing steel during high-pressure torsion: Influence of precipitate composition, size, morphology and matrix hardness. European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, EUROMAT 2021, online (2021)
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…
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.
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
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 will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
This project will aim at developing MEMS based nanoforce sensors with capacitive sensing capabilities. The nanoforce sensors will be further incorporated with in situ SEM and TEM small scale testing systems, for allowing simultaneous visualization of the deformation process during mechanical tests