UCLA researchers receive DOE grant to transform CO2 into construction materials

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have received a two-year $2m grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a process that can convert CO₂ emissions into construction materials.

That grant, and an additional $905,000 in new funding from UCLA discretionary funds and industry partners, will advance research led by Gaurav Sant, a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

A team headed by Sant invented CO₂Concrete, a form of concrete that is made in part from CO₂ emissions, which are an underlying cause of climate change.