Course WS: Sustainable materials

Sustainable materials

WiSe 2024
Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wenwen Song
(Lecture and exercise, 3 CP)
Lecture language: English

Content of the course:

  • Introduction to sustainable materials
  • Sustainability concepts and recycling of materials
  • Sustainable alloy design and recycling-friendly materials
  • Life cycle analysis and recycling of material flows
  • Case study 1: Cu contamination in steel recycling
  • Materials for hydrogen infrastructure (LNG pipelines for H2 transportation, H2 tanks, engines, etc.)
  • Interaction between hydrogen and metals (general behavior of hydrogen in steels: Diffusivity, solubility, hydrogen embrittlement)
  • Case study 2: Hydrogen embrittlement of steels
  • gain an overview of the development of sustainable materials and the approaches to the sustainability of metals;
  • Acquire knowledge of a holistic view of the chemistry - microstructure/nanostructure - process - property - performance - integration - recyclability nexus in the development of novel sustainable materials;
  • Acquire knowledge on design, characterization, optimization and application of sustainable materials based on case studies, especially with a focus on hydrogen energy and circular metals

Calendar week 48, 25.11- 29.11.2024

Time 10:00 - 16:00

Room 1509, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 31 (Hansahaus)

Written exam 60-90 min. or oral exam 30 min.

Time and place to be determined

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  • D. Raabe, The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys, Chemical Reviews, 123 (2023) 2436-2608.
  • D. Raabe, D. Ponge, P. Uggowitzer, M. Roscher, M. Paolantonio, C.L. Liu, H. Antrekowitsch, E. Kozeschnik, D. Seidmann, B. Gault, F. De Geuser, A. Dechamps, C. Hutchinson, C.H. Liu, Z. Li, P. Prangnell, J. Robson, P. Shanthraj, S. Vakili, C. Sinclair, L. Bourgeois, S. Pogatscher, Making sustainable aluminum by recycling scrap: the science of "dirty" alloys, Progress in Material Science, 128 (2022) 100947.
  • D. Raabe, C. Tasan, E. Olivetti, Strategies for improving the sustainability of structural metals, Nature, 575 (2019) 64-74.
  • M. Nagumo, Fundamentals of hydrogen embrittlement,1st ed, Springer Singapore, 2016.
  • V.G. Gavriljuk, V.M. Shyvaniuk, S.M. Teus, Hydrogen in Engineering Metallic Material,1st ed., Springer Cham, 2022.

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