UCLA researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete

The production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, accounts for about about 5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. An even larger source of carbon dioxide emissions is flue gas emitted from smokestacks at power plants around the world. A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UCLA has developed a potential solution for this problem: a closed-loop process which captures carbon from power plant smokestacks and uses it to create a new building material- CO2NCRETE- fabricated using 3D printers.

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