"Metal and Oxide Sublimation from Lunar Regolith: A Kinetics Study" - Shaw et al. (2023)
Alan Duffy
A gigantic study by my student Matt Shaw on how we might access the resource of the Moon - a technique known as InSitu Resource Utilisation (ISRU) - can take advantage of the conditions of the Moon itself. In particular, the fact that we have a vacuum that changes the way in which the metals might evaporate out of the soil of the Moon (called regolith) in a way different to that on Earth, and very much in a way that might help us access iron for future building!