Zhang Shaoqing
Professor
Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials
P.R.China
July 20. 2001
"The book Progress in Hydrogen Treatment of Materials … is
very attractively printed and should be quite useful."
Ted Flanagan
Professor
University of Vermont
USA
August 13, 2001
"A book … Progress in Hydrogen Treatment of Materials, was
published this year by Donetsk-Coral Gables: Kassiopeya. The book contains contributions
by world-renowned scientists and experts from ten countries, is edited by Professor
V.A.Goltsov of Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine, and prefaced
by Professor T.N. Veziroglu, President of the International Association for
Hydrogen Energy, Miami University, USA.
After an introduction by V.A. Goltsov reviewing the status and development of
hydrogen treatment of materials over the last 25 years, the book is organized
in 4 parts.
Part 1 contains 9 review papers, and includes fundamentals of hydrogen treatment
of materials, the thermodynamics of hydrogen solution, diffusion and diffusive
phenomena, theory of hydrogen elasticity phenomenon, hydrogen in thin films
and multilayers, nature and manifestations of uphill hydrogen diffusion effects,
hydride shape-memory effects, and the hydrogen phase naklep phenomenon and its
use in hydrogen treatment of metallic materials.
Part 2 contains 11 review papers covering some hydrogen effects at the metals
surface treatment; hydrogenation behavior, microstructure and hydrogen treatment,
hydrogen as a temporary alloying element, and the achievements and prospects
of hydrogen technology in production and treatment of titanium alloys; hydrogen
in technologies for aluminum alloy casting; systematization and peculiarities
of hydride crystal structures forming under the interaction of hydrogen with
intermetallics; hydrogen induced amorphization of intermetallics, kinetics and
some general features of hydrogen induced diffusive phase transformations in
Nd2Fe14B type alloys; surface modifications of hydrogen storage alloys and their
applications in recent hydrogen technology; effects of hydrogen inclusion on
electrical properties of metal oxides and nitrides; and hydrogen treatment of
non-metallic catalytic materials.
Part 3 includes 2 review papers, covering hydrogen degradation of some hydride-forming
metals and their alloys and hydrogen in welding processes.
Part 4 is a set of appendices covering historical and scientific features of
the generation and development of HTM and how a new paradigm of materials science
has been formed, classification of hydrogen treatment of materials, and the
status of the world-wide HTM community.
Of interest of the rare earth community is the generalized information on hydrogen
interactions with rare earth intermetallic compounds, oxides, and other rare
earth materials. The topic of special interest are crystal structures of hydrides,
hydrogen-induced amorphization, hydrogen-induced phase transformations, and
improvement of physical and catalytical properties by hydrogen treatment.
Our thanks to V.A. Goltsov for contributing this story."
RIC News, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3
USA
September 2001
"I write to draw your attention to a remarkable book which has recently
been published called "Progress in Hydrogen Treatment of Materials",
edited by Victor Goltsov.
Hydrogen in metals is obviously a subject of great interest to our readers.
My own interest has been largely in the theory of embrittlement and the related
mechanism of stress corrosion cracking.
I left this field some years ago but I don't think that the major questions
(for example, to what extent do very high fugacities in the metal bring about
a fracture) have yet been solved.
The book to which I wish to draw attention is an effort from the Ukraine and
from workers centered upon the Donetsk State Technical University. I cannot
claim to have studied every paper in this volume of about 500 pages but those
papers which I have perused certainly strike me as laying down a really original
and frontier type of approach.
This note may draw the attention of your readers to the work going on in Donetsk
and allow them to consider the purchase of the volume which brings new ideas
to a field of enormous practical importance.
John O'M. Bockris
Distinguished Professor
Texas A&M University (1982-1997)
October 24, 2001
"This is a very nice comment on the book."
H. Uchida
Professor
November 12, 2001
"This compilation of papers an aspects of the hydrogen treatment of materials
(HTM), contributed by well-known scientists from ten countries, brings together
information on a wide range of hydrogen-induced physical effects on metals,
alloys and compounds systems. Professor V.A. Goltsov, whose interest in this
topic goes back for many years, reviews the status and development of this field
of materials science and engineering, begun some 25 years ago, and now of increasing
importance due to the rapid commercialization of fuel cell technology and the
growing need for a clean and renewable economy, not forgetting, of course, the
traditional and important aspects of hydrogen-induced corrosion.
Part I covers HTM theory, papers discuss topics such as fundamentals of hydrogen
treatment of materials (V.A. Goltsov); thermodynamics of hydrogen solution in
'perfect' and defective metals and alloys (T.B. Flanagan): for instance, ordered
Pd3Mn alloys dissolve significantly more H2
than the disordered form; diffusion and diffusive phenomena in interstitial
subsystems of M-H systems (L.I. Smirnov and V.A. Goltsov); theory of the hydrogen
elasticity phenomenon (V.A. Goltsov, T.A. Ryumshina, et al.); hydrogen
in thin films and multilayers (H. Zabel and B. Hjorvarsson). In nanostructured
metal films and superlattices, hydrogen has been used to 'tune' the epitaxial
misfit to the substract for generating a modulated lattice gas and to switch
optical and magnetic properties. Also covered are uphill hydrogen diffusion
effects (F.A. Lewis); hydride transformations: nature, kinetics morphology (M.V.
Goltsova, Yu.A. Artemenko, et al.); hydride shape memory effects (L.S.
Bushnev); the hydrogen-phase naklep phenomenon and its use in hydrogen treatment
of metallic materials (V.A. Goltsov and N.N. Vlasenko).
In part II, HTM technology is described. Reviews cover hydrogen effects of metal
surface treatment (E. Lunarska), with hydrogen modifying the elastic, inelastic
and plastic properties of the material surface. Other papers discuss the effects
of hydrogen on titanium and its alloys and for casting aluminium alloys; the
systematization and peculiarities of hydride crystal structures forming under
the interaction of hydrogen with intermetallics (S. Miraglia and D. Fruchart);
hydrogen induced amorphisation of intermetallics (K.Aoki); hydrogen-induced
diffusive phase transformations in Nd2Fe14B-type
alloys (V.A. Goltsov, S.B. Rybalka, et al.); surface modifications of
hydrogen storage alloys and their applications in recent hydrogen technology
(H. Uchida); effects of hydrogen inclusion on the electrical properties of metal
oxides and nitrides (Y. Hayashi and T. Ishikawa); and hydrogen treatment of
non-metallic catalytic materials (L. Jalowiecki-Duhamel).
Part III looks at the degradation that hydrogen can cause, with reviews on hydrogen
degradation of some hydride-forming metals and their alloys (A. Zielinski) and
hydrogen in welding processes (I.K. Pokhodnya and V.I. Shvachko).
The Appendices contain thoughts on this new paradigm of materials science -
from its beginnings and development (V.A. Goltsov; L.F. Goltsova); and the hydrogen
treatment of materials is classified (V.A. Goltsov).
Information is included on hydrogen interactions with palladium and palladium
alloys, (Pd-Ag, Pd-Au, Pd-Al, Pd-Zr, Pd-Mg, Pd-Ni, Pd-Pt, Pd3Mn, Pd3Fe, Pd-Ce,
Pd-Sn, Pd-Cu). For these materials, interest is focused on thermodynamic properties,
a macroscopic reversible and nonreversible form-changing effect; Gorsky effect;
Lewis effect; hydrogen-induced grains shift; hydrogen phase naklep (cold work);
hydrogen failure; hydride transformations; hydrogen-induced ordering-disordering;
diffusion; and hydrogen elasticity."
Platinum Metals Review, 2002, Vol. 46 (1)
January 2002
Reviews of the book Progress in Hydrogen Treatment of Materials you may
also find in journals:
Metaloznavstvo ta Obrobka Metaliv (Metal Science and Treatment of Metals),
2001, No. 4 (in Ukrainian);
Fizicheskaya Mezomekhanika (Physical Mesomechanics), 2002, Vol. 5, No. 1 (in
Russian);
Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov (Metal Science and Heat Treatment
of Metals), 2002, No. 4 (in Russian).