[HTML][HTML] Making sustainable aluminum by recycling scrap: The science of “dirty” alloys

D Raabe, D Ponge, PJ Uggowitzer, M Roscher… - Progress in materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are several facets of aluminum when it comes to sustainability. While it helps to save
fuel due to its low density, producing it from ores is very energy-intensive. Recycling it shifts …

Advanced characterization methods for wear resistant hard coatings: a review on recent progress

M Tkadletz, N Schalk, R Daniel, J Keckes… - Surface and Coatings …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to economical demands to further increase the efficiency of production processes, it is
essential to exploit the full potential of wear resistant hard coatings. This is, however …

How solute atoms control aqueous corrosion of Al-alloys

H Zhao, Y Yin, Y Wu, S Zhang, AM Mingers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aluminum alloys play an important role in circular metallurgy due to their good recyclability
and 95% energy gain when made from scrap. Their low density and high strength translate …

Recent search for new superhard materials: Go nano!

S Veprek - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
High elastic moduli do not guarantee high hardness because upon finite shear electronic
instabilities often occur that result in transformation to softer phases. Therefore, the author …

Self-formation of compositionally complex surface oxides on high entropy alloys observed by accelerated atom probe tomography: a route to sustainable catalysts

V Strotkötter, Y Li, A Kostka, F Lourens, T Löffler… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable catalysts rely on abundant elements which are prone to oxidation. A route to
non-noble electrocatalysts is opened by directing the formation of unavoidable surface …

Reflections on the analysis of interfaces and grain boundaries by atom probe tomography

BM Jenkins, F Danoix, M Gouné… - Microscopy and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Interfaces play critical roles in materials and are usually both structurally and
compositionally complex microstructural features. The precise characterization of their …

Limits to the preparation of superhard nanocomposites: Impurities, deposition and annealing temperature

S Veprek, MGJ Veprek-Heijman - Thin Solid Films, 2012 - Elsevier
Impurities, in particularly oxygen, degrade the mechanical properties of superhard nc-TiN/a-
Si3N4 nanocomposites. In the present paper we show that relatively small oxygen impurities …

Diatomic dications and dianions

H Sabzyan, E Keshavarz, Z Noorisafa - Journal of the Iranian Chemical …, 2014 - Springer
Diatomic dications and dianions are attractive species for quantum chemists and
spectroscopists. In comparison with neutral diatomics, these species show a wealth of …

Atom probe crystallography: Characterization of grain boundary orientation relationships in nanocrystalline aluminium

MP Moody, F Tang, B Gault, SP Ringer, JM Cairney - Ultramicroscopy, 2011 - Elsevier
Spatial Distribution Maps (SDM) in their various forms have previously been used to identify
and characterize crystallographic structure within APT reconstructions. Importantly, it has …

Negative effect of vacancies on cubic symmetry, hardness and conductivity in hafnium nitride films

C Hu, X Zhang, Z Gu, H Huang, S Zhang, X Fan… - Scripta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Although vacancies exist commonly in nonstoichiometric transition metal nitrides, their roles
on structure and properties are not yet well explored. We show that in rocksalt hafnium …