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)
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)
Sandim, M. J. R.; Nagamine, L. C. M.; Kwiatkowski da Silva, A.; Aota, L. S.; Han, L.; Cohen, R.; Zschommler Sandim, H. R.; Gault, B.; Souza Filho, I. R.: Anomalous magnetization induced by local chemistry fluctuations in Mn-containing a'-martensite. Acta Materialia 272, 119956 (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)
Rodrigues Souza Filho, I.; Knabl, W.; Kestler, H.; Ricardo Zschommler Sandim, H.: Strain-rate effects on the recrystallization of molybdenum-based MZ17 alloy. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 112, 106124 (2023)
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)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
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…
Funding ended January 2023 This group was concerned with the 3D mapping of hydrogen at near-atomic scale in metallic alloys with the aim to better understand hydrogen storage materials and hydrogen embrittlement.