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Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials

Faster and more energy-efficient: Catalysts boost hydrogen-based steel production

Publications of Lennart Hitzemann

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Hitzemann, L.; Wei, S.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: Redox-mediated sustainable solid-state synthesis of NiTi: An in situ study of alloying pathways and phase evolution mechanisms. Acta Materialia 314, 122337 (2026)

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Original publication

X. Chen, B. Bienvenu, T. Yang, B. Gault, S.L. Wei, X. Zhou, D. Raabe

Solid-solid catalysis for sustainable alloy synthesis.

Nature Synthesis DOI: 10.1038/s44160-026-01086-5

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