A new study examines ways that carbon could be used as a key ingredient in building materials—particularly biomass plastics and cement. Obstacles still remain, as some of these technologies are still ...

Materials such as concrete containing carbonate-based aggregates, bio-based plastics and biochar could sequester more than 16 ...

Concrete, the world’s most widely used building material, emerges as a key player. By integrating carbonated aggregates and biochar—a substance derived from heating biomass waste—concrete ...

More than 30 billion tons of conventional versions of these materials are produced worldwide every year. The carbon-storing approaches studied included adding biochar (made by heating waste biomass) ...

Research conducted at MIT suggests that cement mixed with soot can act as a supercapacitor. Soot, a byproduct of biomass combustion, contains conductive carbon. When combined with cement and water ...

The carbon-storing approaches studied included adding biochar (made by heating waste biomass) into concrete; using artificial rocks that can be loaded with carbon as concrete and asphalt pavement ...