Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010853

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,743,635 from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to transform industrial and biomass wastes into low-cost, low-carbon construction materials using a novel negative emission technology (NET). The project is a collaborative effort involving researchers from the University of Alabama, University of New Mexico, University of Idaho, and Alabama A&M University, a Historically Black College and University. The...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $250,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to C-Crete Technologies LLC to support a research project titled "Reactive CO2 Capture and Conversion in Underutilized Waste Streams to Make Synthetic Aggregates for Concrete." The project aims to develop innovative carbon capture and utilization technologies that convert waste CO2 into synthetic aggregates for concrete manufacturing. The award will fund C-Crete Technologies' research...

This $491,763 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to transform hazardous industrial waste and biomass into sustainable, low-carbon construction materials using negative emission technology (NET). The project revolves around developing a process to capture and mineralize CO2 from alkaline industrial waste streams, creating calcium-rich compounds that can partially replace Portland cement in concrete. This...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $199,999 to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) supports the development of a novel, sustainable ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) for infrastructure applications. The project aims to replace carcinogenic materials in traditional UHPC with waste mine tailings and incorporate a green ternary binder system composed of low-carbon super-sulfated cement, silica fume, and magnesium...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $256,500 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Solid Carbon, Inc. in McMinnville, OR on July 22, 2024. The grant supports the "Development of a Novel Lightweight Aggregate with Carbon Sequestration for the Concrete Industry". The project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative technologies to address national priorities in energy and environmental management. The research will focus on creating a novel...

This five-year, $674,756 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, within the Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041), will fund the development of a novel, stratlingite-based cementitious binder with significantly lower carbon emissions than traditional Portland cement. The awardee, Missouri University of Science & Technology, will leverage the chemistries of ancient Roman concretes and modern concrete designs to...

This $950,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Arizona State University to develop carbon-neutral cement manufacturing technologies. The goal is to enable production of Portland cement and other lime-based cements in an energy-efficient and carbon-neutral manner through technological innovations, including a low-temperature process to decompose...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $300,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to develop a novel non-hydraulic cementitious composite material called Lunar Thermochemically Activated Concrete (LTAC) for lunar construction applications. The project aims to utilize lunar in-situ resources to enable sustainable and cost-effective lunar infrastructure development, which is crucial for advancing human...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award supports research at Temple University to develop novel multi-functional hybrid materials and internal carbon dioxide (CO2) curing processes for carbon-sink concrete materials. The $579,448 award, effective from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2029, aims to address limitations of carbonated concrete systems and advance technologies for long-term sequestration of anthropogenic CO2. The research will focus on...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for the period of July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The grant funds research to develop a carbon-negative process for converting municipal solid waste incineration ashes into high-value blended supplementary cementitious materials using carbon dioxide from flue gases. These carbon-negative supplementary cementitious...