Our recent work on the “Limitations of Hydrogen Detection After 150 Years of Research on Hydrogen Embrittlement” was highlighted in the Advanced Engineering Materials journal with a back cover!
I am mostly happy that this was a special edition of the journal to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Professor Reinhard Pippan (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15272648/2024/26/19)!
To all my co-workers and team members, Glück Auf!
Hydrogen Detection
During the second industrial revolution, William H. Johnson investigated a mystery that affected the British metallurgy industry. He observed that cleaning rust from iron and steel wires with acidulated water reduced their original toughness via an embrittlement effect. Gas bubbles emerging from the wires’ cracks revealed the culprit: hydrogen. In article number 2400776, Matheus A. Tunes, Peter J. Uggowitzer, and co-workers discuss how detecting hydrogen in materials remains a challenge 150 years later.
Link to the paper!
Tunes, M.A., Uggowitzer, P.J., Dumitraschkewitz, P., Willenshofer, P., Samberger, S., da Silva, F.C., Schön, C.G., Kremmer, T.M., Antrekowitsch, H., Djukic, M.B. and Pogatscher, S. (2024), Limitations of Hydrogen Detection After 150 Years of Research on Hydrogen Embrittlement. Adv. Eng. Mater., 26: 2400776. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202400776
Materials at Extremes 