Hydrogen - metal alloys interactions

Understanding the interactions between hydrogen and metal alloys is fundamental to developing durable, cost-effective materials capable of withstanding hydrogen-induced embrittlement, which otherwise leads to mechanical degradation and failure.

My research in this field focuses on three primary areas:

• Understanding how different solutes impact hydrogen trapping and diffusion in steels;
  
• developing advanced simulation schemes, such as on-the-fly kinetic/grand canonical Monte Carlo, to bridge the gap between atomistic effects and macroscopic mechanical behavior; and
  
• unraveling the influence of magnetic ordering on hydrogen dynamics in metals at low temperatures.

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