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Concrete is the second most-used substance on Earth, after water, and it's responsible for 7.5% of total carbon emissions - triple that of aviation.
Decarbonising cement - the carbon-hungry component of concrete - is a massive challenge. But Cambridge researchers have come up with a solution.
They've developed a method to produce very low-emission concrete at scale - an innovation that could be transformative for the transition to net zero.
Find out more at cam.ac.uk/cement-recycling
The research was supported in part by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Reference:
Cyrille F Dunant, Shiju Joseph, Rohit Prajapati, Julian M Allwood. ‘Electric recycling of Portland cement at scale.’ Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07338-8
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