Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

A sustainable ultra-high strength Fe18Mn3Ti maraging steel through controlled solute segregation and α-Mn nanoprecipitation

  • A. Kwiatkowski da Silva,
  • I. R. Souza Filho,
  • W. Lu,
  • K. D. Zilnyk,
  • M. F. Hupalo,
  • L. M. Alves,
  • D. Ponge,
  • B. Gault,
  • D. Raabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30019-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Recent demands to design alloys in a more sustainable way have discouraged the use of critical elements that are rare. Here the authors demonstrate a segregation-based strategy to produce a sustainable steel, Fe18Mn3Ti, without critical elements while achieving ultrahigh-strength.