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)
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)
Tanure, L.; Patterer, L.; Balakumar, S.; Fekete, M.; Mráz, S.; Karimi Aghda, S.; Hans, M.; Schneider, J. M.; Springer, H.: A novel concept for self-healing metallic structural materials: Internal soldering of damage using low melting eutectics. Materials & Design 252, 113821 (2025)
Gathmann, M.; Moisi, D.; Springer, H.: Coarsening mechanism of M2B-borides and their effect on the mechanical properties of high modulus steels. Materials & Design 247, 113411 (2024)
Gathmann, M.; Tönnißen, N.; Baron, C.; Kostka, A.; Steinbacher, M.; Springer, H.: Surface hardening of high modulus steels through carburizing and nitriding: First insights into microstructure property relationships. Surface and Coatings Technology 494 (Part 1), 131354 (2024)
Pauna, H.; Ernst, D.; Zarl, M.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Kulse, M.; Büyükuslu, Ö.; Jovičević-Klug, M.; Springer, H.; Huttula, M.; Schenk, J.et al.; Fabritius, T.; Raabe, D.: The Optical Spectra of Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction of Iron Ore: Application and Requirements. Steel Research International 95 (8), 2400028 (2024)
Springer, H.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Choisez, L.; Zarl, M. A.; Quick, C.; Horn, A.; Schenk, J.: Iron ore wires as consumable electrodes for the hydrogen plasma smelting reduction in future green steel production. Sustainable Materials and Technologies 39, e00785 (2024)
Fantin, A.; Maria Manzoni, A.; Springer, H.; Darvishi Kamachali, R.; Maaß, R.: Local lattice distortions and chemical short-range order in MoNbTaW. Materials Research Letters 12 (5), pp. 346 - 354 (2024)
Souza Filho, I. R.; Ma, Y.; Raabe, D.; Springer, H.: Fundamentals of Green Steel Production: On the Role of Gas Pressure During Hydrogen Reduction of Iron Ores. JOM-Journal of the Minerals Metals & Materials Society 75, pp. 2274 - 2286 (2023)
Pinson, M.; Springer, H.; Depover, T.; Verbeken, K.: The role of cementite on the hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in martensitic medium-carbon steels. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 859, 144204 (2022)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
Project A02 of the SFB1394 studies dislocations in crystallographic complex phases and investigates the effect of segregation on the structure and properties of defects in the Mg-Al-Ca System.
The aim of this project is to develop novel nanostructured Fe-Co-Ti-X (X = Si, Ge, Sn) compositionally complex alloys (CCAs) with adjustable magnetic properties by tailoring microstructure and phase constituents through compositional and process tuning. The key aspect of this work is to build a fundamental understanding of the correlation between…
In this project, we aim to enhance the mechanical properties of an equiatomic CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy (MEA) by interstitial alloying. Carbon and nitrogen with varying contents have been added into the face-centred cubic structured CoCrNi MEA.
Hydrogen is a clean energy source as its combustion yields only water and heat. However, as hydrogen prefers to accumulate in the concentrated stress region of metallic materials, a few ppm Hydrogen can already cause the unexpected sudden brittle failure, the so-called “hydrogen embrittlement”. The difficulties in directly tracking hydrogen limits…