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Engineered porosity for space applications.

University of Stuttgart · IKMTStuttgart, Germany05/2025 – 01/2026

Research project on the development of an additively manufactured ceramic thruster for water-based satellite propulsion. The work focused on a reliable digital and experimental development route from material and process preparation through DLP printing and thermal post-processing to characterization. In parallel, resincreator.de was built as a digital lab and process documentation system to structure material, manufacturing and test data and prepare them for future ML/AI-based recommendation systems.

From resin to rocket part.

Water-based propulsion needs components that survive extreme heat with precisely controlled porosity. The thesis built a complete development route for DLP-printed porous ceramics, and validated it with high-temperature tests on manufactured thruster components.

# the development route
material prep → DLP printing → thermal post-processing
→ characterization → high-temperature testing
# documented in parallel on resincreator.de

The showcase deck.

The thesis itself is a university document, what’s public is this condensed deck: the research question, the manufacturing route and where the work is headed, in five slides.

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notes from the work

The goal was to develop a component and process chain capable of meeting the extreme thermal and mechanical demands of future in-space propulsion systems.

This work combines manufacturing engineering, materials research, and application-driven testing in a real aerospace context. Initial high-temperature tests showed that the manufactured components can maintain structural integrity under demanding conditions, providing a strong basis for further development.

What I found most interesting about this work was the connection between fundamental process understanding and real-world engineering application.

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