What Is Hydrogen Embrittlement and How Can It Be Prevented?

Why watch it?

Baptiste Gault examines hydrogen embrittlement in steel in this eight-minute video, produced by Latest Thinking and hosted on the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials channel. Atom probe tomography is used to locate hydrogen in the material and gauge how far it penetrates. Gault links damage potential to the mobility of hydrogen atoms and proposes adding trapping particles to restrict it, an approach the description says could extend to titanium and nickel alloys. A concise primer, published in 2020.

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