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Stronger and safer: new design strategy for aluminium combines strength with hydrogen embrittlement resistance

April 30, 2025

International researcher team develops scalable aluminium alloys for the hydrogen economy

New design strategy for high-performance steels

July 09, 2024

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International research team develops steel for liquid gas transport and storage. Results now published in the journal Science.

In the foreground, a section of the extensive area of a landfill site with rust-red mud, in the background a much smaller aluminium plant. The plant and landfill are located on a gulf, which can be seen in the upper half of the picture. Green meadows can be seen on the right.

Green steel from toxic red mud

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An economical process with green hydrogen can be used to extract CO₂-free iron from the red mud generated in aluminium production

Seeing light elements in a grain boundary

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A further step in unravelling materials’ properties down to the atomic scale

Optimized magnets for the energy transition

May 31, 2023

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European Innovation Council supports a research project led by Technical University Darmstadt with 3 million euros

A new space for designing advanced materials

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Dr. Liuliu Han heads the new research group “High-Entropy Materials”

Using artificial intelligence to design innovative materials

March 31, 2023

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Max Planck scientists explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence in materials science and publish their review

Ammonia: efficient hydrogen carrier and green steel enabler

March 30, 2023

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Max Planck materials scientists use ammonia for sustainable iron- and steelmaking. They publish their latest findings in the Journal Advanced Science

Sustainable steel production using ammonia

March 17, 2023

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New video explains the benefits of ammonia as hydrogen carrier and reduction material for iron ores

Towards defect engineering: identifying universal structures on the atomic scale

February 15, 2023

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Researchers of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung publish their latest findings in the journal Physical Review B

Sustainable, ultra-strong and ductile steel through advanced processing

January 17, 2023

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International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science

Better magnets for green energy

August 10, 2022

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Researchers use multicomponent alloys to make strong and ductile soft magnetic materials. Latest results now published in the journal Nature

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