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Varanasi, R. S.; Gault, B.; Ponge, D.: Effect of Nb micro-alloying on austenite nucleation and growth in a medium manganese steel during intercritical annealing. Acta Materialia 229, 117786 (2022)
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Sun, B.; Ma, Y.; Vanderesse, N.; Srinivas Varanasi, R.; Song, W.; Bocher, P.; Ponge, D.; Raabe, D.: Macroscopic to nanoscopic in situ investigation on yielding mechanisms in ultrafine grained medium Mn steels: Role of the austenite-ferrite interface. Acta Materialia 178, pp. 10 - 25 (2019)
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Alper Kasirga wins the Max Planck Apprenticeship Award and the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials is recognised as an excellent training institution
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials have developed a carbon-free, energy-saving method to extract nickel for batteries, magnets and stainless steel.