Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

One dimensional wormhole corrosion in metals

  • Yang Yang,
  • Weiyue Zhou,
  • Sheng Yin,
  • Sarah Y. Wang,
  • Qin Yu,
  • Matthew J. Olszta,
  • Ya-Qian Zhang,
  • Steven E. Zeltmann,
  • Mingda Li,
  • Miaomiao Jin,
  • Daniel K. Schreiber,
  • Jim Ciston,
  • M. C. Scott,
  • John R. Scully,
  • Robert O. Ritchie,
  • Mark Asta,
  • Ju Li,
  • Michael P. Short,
  • Andrew M. Minor

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36588-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Corrosion is a ubiquitous failure mode in materials. Here the authors report a percolating 1D wormhole corrosion morphology using advanced electron microscopy and theoretical simulations. The work presents a vacancy mapping method with nm-resolution, identifying the incubation sites of the wormholes.