Hydrogen embrittlement in metallic nanowires

Sheng Yin, Guangming Cheng, Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Gunther Richter, Yong Zhu () and Huajian Gao ()
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Sheng Yin: Brown University
Guangming Cheng: North Carolina State University
Tzu-Hsuan Chang: North Carolina State University
Gunther Richter: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Yong Zhu: North Carolina State University
Huajian Gao: Brown University

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Although hydrogen embrittlement has been observed and extensively studied in a wide variety of metals and alloys, there still exist controversies over the underlying mechanisms and a fundamental understanding of hydrogen embrittlement in nanostructures is almost non-existent. Here we use metallic nanowires (NWs) as a platform to study hydrogen embrittlement in nanostructures where deformation and failure are dominated by dislocation nucleation. Based on quantitative in-situ transmission electron microscopy nanomechanical testing and molecular dynamics simulations, we report enhanced yield strength and a transition in failure mechanism from distributed plasticity to localized necking in penta-twinned Ag NWs due to the presence of surface-adsorbed hydrogen. In-situ stress relaxation experiments and simulations reveal that the observed embrittlement in metallic nanowires is governed by the hydrogen-induced suppression of dislocation nucleation at the free surface of NWs.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10035-0

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