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Hydrogen Workshop
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Hydrogen Workshop Poster

    Hydrogen plays a key role in materials, beneficial in some cases, problematic in others. In all such systems a detailed understanding of the hydrogen based interaction is necessary for control, for improvements and for possible new applications. This workshop brings together many communities who deal with the hydrogen-materials issue. Each community will address hydrogen concerns pertaining to their specific application and the understanding they have gained about the generic physics issues of hydrogen in materials.

    Some of the hydrogen-materials issues are:

    • Diffusion of H in metals (kinetics as a function of time and temperature)
    • Role of interstitials, grain boundaries
    • Movement of H from grain boundaries to interstitial location
    • H incorporation during chemical treatment of metals
    • H incorporation during electropolishing
    • H out gassing from metals, temperature, times
    • Why does H absorption cause embrittelment?
    • How does H in metal affect the metal lattice?
    • Diffusion in grain boundaries
    • H segregation at the surface
    • Passivation
    • Hydride formation conditions
    • Metal- hydrogen phase diagrams
    • Influence of H on physical properties, such as electrical and thermal conductivity
    • Hydrogen content measurements (internal friction, neutron scattering, thermal desorption etc.)
    • Hydrogen based electronic devices and H sensors
    • Hydrogen interaction with particle beams in high energy accelerators
    • .....other issues?

    This informal, transdisciplinary workshop is expected to combine scientific, technological, and industrial perspectives to engage new ideas in the science, engineering, and art of hydrogen in materials.

    When you are interested in contributing a presentation to the workshop, please, email an abstract (400 words) to the one of the chairs of the session you are interested.

    Proceedings will be published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

    content by Ganapati Myneni
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    updated May 24, 2002