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| author | Albrecht, Aleksander Song, Sang Yoon Lee, Chang-Gi Krämer, Mathias Yoo, Su-Hyun Hans, Marcus Gault, Baptiste Ma, Yan Raabe, Dierk Sohn, Seok-Su Lee, Yonghyuk Kim, Se-Ho |
| author_facet | Albrecht, Aleksander Song, Sang Yoon Lee, Chang-Gi Krämer, Mathias Yoo, Su-Hyun Hans, Marcus Gault, Baptiste Ma, Yan Raabe, Dierk Sohn, Seok-Su Lee, Yonghyuk Kim, Se-Ho |
| contents | Hydrogen, while a promising sustainable energy carrier, presents challenges such as the embrittlement of materials due to its ability to penetrate and weaken their crystal structures. Here we investigate Fe4N nitride layers, formed on iron through a cost-effective gas nitriding process, as an effective hydrogen permeation barrier. A combination of screening using advanced characterization, density functional theory calculations, and hydrogen permeation analysis reveals that a nitride layer reduces hydrogen diffusion by a factor of 20 at room temperature. This reduction is achieved by creating energetically unfavorable states due to stronger H-binding at the surface and high energy barriers for diffusion. The findings demonstrate the potential of Fe4N as a cost-efficient and easy-to-process solution to protecting metallic materials exposed to hydrogen, with great advantages for large-scale applications. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | An atomic-scale view at Fe4N as hydrogen barrier material Albrecht, Aleksander Song, Sang Yoon Lee, Chang-Gi Krämer, Mathias Yoo, Su-Hyun Hans, Marcus Gault, Baptiste Ma, Yan Raabe, Dierk Sohn, Seok-Su Lee, Yonghyuk Kim, Se-Ho Materials Science Hydrogen, while a promising sustainable energy carrier, presents challenges such as the embrittlement of materials due to its ability to penetrate and weaken their crystal structures. Here we investigate Fe4N nitride layers, formed on iron through a cost-effective gas nitriding process, as an effective hydrogen permeation barrier. A combination of screening using advanced characterization, density functional theory calculations, and hydrogen permeation analysis reveals that a nitride layer reduces hydrogen diffusion by a factor of 20 at room temperature. This reduction is achieved by creating energetically unfavorable states due to stronger H-binding at the surface and high energy barriers for diffusion. The findings demonstrate the potential of Fe4N as a cost-efficient and easy-to-process solution to protecting metallic materials exposed to hydrogen, with great advantages for large-scale applications. |
| title | An atomic-scale view at Fe4N as hydrogen barrier material |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04059 |