Nature Communications Reports Consecutive Research Advances by ECUST in Damage-Resistant Manufacturing of Materials for Extreme Service

Recently, the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering at ECUST, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (MPI-SusMat) in Germany, has achieved significant progress in damage-resistant manufacturing of metallic materials designed for extreme service environments. The two studies were published in the Nature Communications under the titles “In situ nano-reprecipitation enables superior cryogenic mechanical properties in a 3D printable medium-entropy alloy” and “Protection of metal interfaces against hydrogen-assisted cracking.”

Lecturer Tiwen Lu and doctoral candidate Xiyu Chen served as co-first authors of the paper “In situ nano-reprecipitation enables superior cryogenic mechanical properties in a 3D printable medium-entropy alloy.” The project was jointly supervised by co-corresponding authors Professor Xiancheng Zhang, Professor Binhan Sun, and Professor Raabe Dierk, with invaluable strategic guidance provided by Academician Shandong Tu. This pioneering work was supported by funding from the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and other funding sources. 

Professor Binhan Sun from the Key Laboratory of Pressure Systems and Safety (Ministry of Education), ECUST, served as one of the corresponding authors for the paper “Protection of metal interfaces against hydrogen-assisted cracking”, and doctoral candidate Aochen Zhang participated in this research.