UCLA researchers hope to turn captured CO2 into sustainable concrete

Posted on 23 Mar 2016 by Aiden Burgess

A team of researchers at UCLA have begun working on a unique solution to help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by turning it into a concrete-like material.

The team’s proposed project involves collecting CO2 from smokestacks and processing the chemical into a usable material able to be used in large scale 3D printing. The researchers plan is to create a closed-loop process; capturing carbon from power plant smokestacks and use it to create a new building material called CO2 NCRETE. The material will…

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