10.1038/s41529-018-0035-4

2018-04-04

Turning carbon dioxide (CO2) into rocks: controlling this process, which naturally operates at the Earth’s surface over geological timescales, is likely to represent a major technological challenge of this century. One of the recurring criticisms with the car...

10.1038/s41529-018-0032-7

2018-04-03

Tailoring the grain boundary network is desired to improve grain boundary-dependent phenomena such as intergranular corrosion. An important grain boundary network descriptor in heavily twinned microstructures is the twin-related domain, a cluster of twin-rela...

10.1038/s41529-018-0033-6

2018-03-29

The compatibility of current collectors with the electrolyte plays a major role in the overall performance of lithium batteries, critical to obtain high storage capacity as well as excellent capacity retention. In lithium-ion batteries, in particular with cat...

10.1038/s41529-018-0031-8

2018-03-21

In situ highly sensitive potential- and time-resolved monitoring of polycrystalline gold and platinum electrochemical dissolution in pure organic media is reported. This was achieved by successfully upgrading electrochemical flow cell coupled to inductively c...

10.1038/s41529-018-0029-2

2018-03-12

CoCrMo-based metal-on-metal hip implants experienced unexpectedly high failure rates despite the high wear and corrosion resistance of the bulk material. Although they exhibit a lower volumetric wear compared to other implant materials, CoCrMo-based implants ...

10.1038/s41529-018-0030-9

2018-03-07

Corrosion rates of strained grade UNS S32202 (2202) and UNS S32205 (2205) duplex stainless steel wires have been measured, in situ, using time-lapse X-ray computed tomography. Exposures to chloride-containing (MgCl2) atmospheric environments at 50 °C (12–15 M...

10.1038/s41529-018-0028-3

2018-03-02

For the handling of high level nuclear waste (HLW), new glass formulations with a high waste capacity and an enhanced thermal stability, chemical durability, and processability are under consideration. This study focuses on the durability of peraluminous glas...

10.1038/s41529-018-0027-4

2018-02-20

Structure, composition and surface properties dictate corrosion resistance in any given environment. The degrees of freedom in alloy design are too numerous in emerging materials such as high entropy alloys and bulk metallic glasses for the use of high-throug...

10.1038/s41529-018-0026-5

2018-02-14

Titanium has been added to ferritic stainless steels to combat the detrimental effects of intergranular corrosion. While this has proven to be a successful strategy, we have found that the resulting Ti-rich inclusions present on the surface play a significant...

10.1038/s41529-017-0025-y

2018-02-05

Knowing the structure of a material is necessary to understand its evolution under various influences; here, the alteration by water of a reference glass of nuclear interest, called International Simple Glass (ISG), is studied. The ISG atomic structure has no...