SUPREMETAL - Sustainable 3D Printing Solutions and Surface Engineering for Magnesium and Titanium Alloys PID2024–158719OB-C33/MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE

RAUL ARRABAL DURAN

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SUPREMETAL - Sustainable 3D Printing Solutions and Surface Engineering for Magnesium and Titanium Alloys PID2024–158719OB-C33/MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE

RAUL ARRABAL DURAN (Project member)¹

1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Magnesium and titanium alloys are essential in transportation, aeronautics and biomedical sectors due to their exceptional strength-to-weight ratio and biocompatibility. Magnesium, as the lightest structural metal, is increasingly used in lightweight designs, while titanium excels in high-performance applications requiring superior mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. In biomedicine, magnesium is ideal for resorbable implants, while titanium is preferred for permanent ones.

Conventional manufacturing methods for these alloys often result in high material wastage, energy consumption and environmental impact. Metal Additive manufacturing (AM) offers a transformative solution by enabling near-net shape production, complex geometries and significant waste reduction.

However, AM faces critical challenges, including sustainability in raw material usage and defects like porosity and inhomogeneities that compromise properties such as corrosion resistance, mechanical strength and bioactivity. Advancing sustainable AM processes must therefore be paired with efficient surface treatments to ensure the long-term performance and applicability of AM Mg and Ti alloys.

The SUPREMETAL project addresses these challenges by adopting sustainable practices in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and indirect additive manufacturing via material extrusion (MEX). SUPREMETAL prioritizes magnesium powder reuse and recycled titanium, integrating thermodynamic and kinetic simulations to mitigate issues such as impurities and oxidation, ensuring improved process control, material quality and sustainability.

To enhance performance, the project integrates innovative surface engineering strategies. These include laser post-processing, eco-friendly anodizing for aerospace, self-healing hybrid coatings for transport and bioactive functionalization for biomedical applications. Sustainable solutions emphasize green corrosion inhibitors, eco-friendly additives and biodegradable polymers, combined with technologies like sol-gel processes, layered double hydroxides and plasma electrolytic oxidation.

SUPREMETAL aligns with three areas of intervention within the Advanced Materials and New Manufacturing Technologies line of Priority Topic 5, Industry (PEICTI 2024-2027):

i) Sustainable materials, ii) Advanced manufacturing methods and technologies, iiI) Smart and functional materials.

The projects objectives tackle three key challenges linked to each subproject:

1. Sustainability: Develop AM processes with reused Mg powders and recycled Ti to reduce environmental footprint (URJC).

2. Process and material optimization: Use thermodynamic and kinetic simulations to address challenges in alloy design, powder oxidation, impurities and phase transformation, ensuring high-performance outcomes (UC3M).

3. Smart-coatings: Create hybrid coatings with green corrosion inhibitors and natural additives for superior corrosion resistance, wear protection, selfhealing, bioactivity and drug-elution properties (UCM).

The expertise of URJC, UC3M and UCM in alloy design, AM, and engineering, along with their complementary research facilities, ensures the successful execution of SUPREMETALs goals

This DMP is a part of WP1 (Coordination, Management and State of the Art) in the SUPREMETAL project. The purpose of this DMP is to describe the data management strategy (data handling, data sharing, data privacy and data ownership). Relevant links with data from the project are included in the DMP.

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