{"id":209542,"date":"2025-03-23T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T07:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/carbon-negative-construction-new-method-turns-co%e2%82%82-into-strong-fire-resistant-building-materials"},"modified":"2025-03-23T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T07:05:57","slug":"carbon-negative-construction-new-method-turns-co%e2%82%82-into-strong-fire-resistant-building-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/carbon-negative-construction-new-method-turns-co%e2%82%82-into-strong-fire-resistant-building-materials","title":{"rendered":"Carbon-negative construction: New method turns CO\u2082 into strong, fire-resistant building materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new method inspired by coral reefs can capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transform it into durable, fire-resistant building materials, offering a promising solution for carbon-negative construction.<\/p>\n

The approach, developed by USC researchers and detailed in a study published in npj Advanced Manufacturing<\/i><\/a>, draws inspiration from the ocean\u2019s coral reefs<\/a>\u2019 natural ability to create robust structures by sequestering carbon dioxide. The resulting mineral-polymer composites demonstrate extraordinary mechanical strength, fracture toughness and fire-resistance capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a pivotal step in the evolution of converting carbon dioxide,\u201d said Qiming Wang, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. \u201cUnlike traditional carbon capture<\/a> technologies that focus on storing carbon dioxide or converting it into liquid substances, we found this new electrochemical manufacturing process converts the chemical compound into calcium carbonate minerals in 3D-printed polymer scaffolds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new method inspired by coral reefs can capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transform it into durable, fire-resistant building materials, offering a promising solution for carbon-negative construction. The approach, developed by USC researchers and detailed in a study published in npj Advanced Manufacturing, draws inspiration from the ocean\u2019s coral reefs\u2019 natural ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}