# Making parts on Mars: Laser processing of iron contaminated by regolith simulant

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2025-04-03T07:24:25.848061Z

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2025.100566

## Date published

2025-02-26

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2025-3

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## Title

- title: 'Making parts on Mars: Laser processing of iron contaminated by regolith
    simulant'
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Manufacturing pure metals on Mars is challenging due to limited energy
    resources and unavoidable contamination of raw materials and production equipment
    with the Martian dust (regolith) resulting in impure materials. Understanding
    the effect of contamination on material properties is crucial for establishing
    materials manufacturing on Mars. This study investigates the influence of regolith
    contamination on its processability, and properties of the Fe-based material manufactured
    via laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) for potential extraterrestrial applications.
    To simulate a contamination, water-atomized iron powder was mixed with 1 wt% Martian
    regolith simulant and processed by L-PBF. It was found the regolith is uniformly
    distributed within the iron matrix transforming from contaminant to reinforcement
    material. The crack-free interface between iron and regolith systematically studied
    using STEM reveals segregation of some elements but absence of notable reaction
    between matrix and particles. The Fe-regolith composite demonstrate moderate strength
    and large plastic deformability. The results suggest that unavoidable regolith
    contamination during production on Mars can be rethink as in-situ resource utilization
    for manufacturing of regolith reinforced iron matrix composites.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: Askar Kvaratskheliya
  role: author
- name: Aleksandr Filimonov
  role: author
- name: Bruno Bianchini
  role: author
- name: Muchammad Izzuddin Jundullah Hanafi
  role: author
- name: Thorsten M. Gesing
  role: author
- name: Taisuke T. Sasaki
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5952-7638
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Piter Gargarella
  role: author
- name: Lutz Mädler
  role: author
- name: Ilya Okulov
  role: author

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organization: Elsevier BV

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## Keyword

- subject: Mars
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- subject: Regolith
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- subject: Printing
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- subject: Contamination
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- subject: Metal matrix composites
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## Rights

- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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## Journal

- title: Materials Today Advances
  issn: '25900498'
  volume: '25'
  article_number: '100566'

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## Funding

- funder_name: Japan Science and Technology Agency
- funder_name: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- funder_name: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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