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European project MITHRIL Hydrogen permeation barriers<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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12 August 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: <\/strong>Development of permeation barrier coatings for steels in hydrogen applications<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong>  from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2029 (42 months)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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European Research Executive Agency (REA), Programme for Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RSC), project number 101216702 Link to European Funding<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Web page: <\/strong> mithril-project.eu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web page UniCa<\/strong>: https:\/\/en.unica.it\/en\/research\/research-funding-opportunities\/european-funding\/programme-horizon-europe\/horizon-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coordinator: <\/strong>RINA Consulting \u2013 Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A., Rome, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective: <\/strong>MITHRIL Project aims to contribute to the advancement of the steel sector in the hydrogen economy by facilitating the realization of an economic, effective, and durable hydrogen steel infrastructure. This will be achieved by developing, validating, and diffusing (with guidelines) hydrogen barrier coatings for steels in hydrogen applications. These coatings will impart hydrogen embrittlement-resistance properties which will prolong the service life and make materials capable of being used in hydrogen industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background of the group of UNICA<\/summary>\n

The research group Surface Analysis, Electrochemistry and Corrosion of UNICA has long experience in characterizing electroless Ni-P coatings with electrochemical and surface analytical techniques<\/a>, both regarding the corrosion resistance<\/a>, their structure and surface composition<\/a>. The main findings were that the very high corrosion resistance of Ni-P coatings (and also of amorphous Ni-P ribbons prepared by rapid quenching) is due to a nickel-phosphate surface layer of about 1 nm thickness and beneath a highly phosphorus enriched layer of about 2 nm that block the dissolution of nickel from the bulk of the Ni-P layer. This knowledge and know-how will be used to study Ni-P coatings as hydrogen permeation barriers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In depth surface composition profile of the nano-layer on the surface of electroless Ni-P alloys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
Role of the group of UNICA in the project<\/summary>\n

UNICA will use its knowledge and expertise to the study of Ni\u2013P coatings as barriers to hydrogen permeation. Before starting the project a literature review on Ni-P coatings as hydrogen permeation barriers<\/a> has been performed and published<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hydrogen permeation experiments on Ni-P coated steel samples will be performed, using the Devanathan Starchurski cell and the established analytical protocol <\/a> from previous studies on X60 steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Procedure to determine hydrogen permeation according to Devanathan Starchurski as installed in the laboratory for Surface Analysis, Electrochemistry and Corrosion <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The porosity of the coating will be characterized by the linear polarization electrochemical method. The surface of the Ni-P coatings will be characterized using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Collaboration with other groups<\/summary>\n

UNICA is one of the three “Characterizing and testing units” in the MITHRIL consortium<\/a>. Together with University of Ghent and Fundaci\u00f3n TEKNIKER (TEK) we are actively engaged in conducting electrochemical permeation tests on the five different coatings produced by the other partners. UNICA is responsible for the task T “ranking of coatings by permeation tests”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNICA will perform a limited amount of porosity tests of the different coatings produced by the other partners. On selected coatings and to address specific scientific questions also x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) will be performed on selected coatings of the other partners. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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