Using a fully automated closed-loop system, a robotic chemist synthesizes an oxygen-evolution catalyst from Martian meteorites, with implications for the production of catalysts that may underpin human survival on Mars in the future.
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Symes, M.D., Cronin, L. Bringing digital synthesis to Mars. Nat. Synth 3, 284–285 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00456-7
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