Stress-triggered atomic explosion of trapped hydrogen initiates crack nucleation
Energy
Summary
arXiv:2606.03298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) has persisted for more than a century as one of the most intractable problems in materials science. The prevailing view1 that diffusive H governs embrittlement has fostered the widespread assumption that H trapping at crystal defects mitigates HE. Here we overturn this conventional paradigm.
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