Climate change is the most pressing challenge faced today. Carbon emissions from
industry, transport and other forms of energy continue to threaten the future. Industrialised …

The present work reports a systematic study of the potential degradation of metals and
dielectric thin films in different space environments. The mono-and bilayers selected are …

When a metal surface is exposed to prolonged irradiation with energetic H−, the ions are
expected to penetrate into bulk and dissolve in the matrix. However, the irradiated surfaces …

SOLAR sails generate thrust by means of thin metalized polymer films, which extract
momentum from the impinging photons coming from the sun [1–6]. The dynamics of a solar …

Hydrogen (H) induced damage in metals has been a longstanding woe for many industrial
applications. One form of such damage is linked to H clustering, for which the atomic origin …

For materials with high surface-to-volume ratio and high oxygen affinity, oxide layers will
significantly change the material properties. However, oxidation effects have not been …

Copper and hydrogen are among the most common elements that are widely used in
industrial and fundamental research applications. Copper surfaces are often exposed to …

Future space missions will operate in increasingly hostile environments, such as those in
low-perihelion solar orbits and Jovian magnetosphere. This exploration involves the …

The presence of inclusions in steels is responsible for hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC),
which necessitates control over their size and distribution. The aims of this study are to …

Any effort which intends to physically interact with specific asteroids requires understanding
at least of the composition and multi-scale structure of the surface layers, sometimes also of …