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Improved Cement to Protect the Living Treasures of Our Coastlines

September 24, 2024 sarah JonasResearch Results

Artificial coastlines, including human-made dikes and other engineered constructions, can help prevent erosion and protect from storms and flooding. However, ecological functions remain unprotected from many of these structures. So researchers in China have investigated the use of specialized types of cement.

Toshifumi Sugama Honored for Contributions to Geothermal Industry

October 4, 2023 sarah JonasAnnouncement

Toshifumi Sugama–a chemist in the Interdisciplinary Science Department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory who designs, develops, and evaluates materials for geothermal wells–received the Outstanding Research Award from Geothermal Rising, a non-profit organization advocating for the advancement of geothermal energy around the world.

Carbon-negative concrete products to be formed from upcycled waste

February 15, 2023 sarah JonasAnnouncement

The cement industry emits more than 3 gigatons of carbon dioxide worldwide from the manufacturing of about 4.5 gigatons of cement every year because of its carbon-dioxide- and energy-intensive processing. This amount of cement is necessary to produce the concrete that shapes modern infrastructure.

National research centre signals cleaner future for heavy industry

June 30, 2021 sarah JonasFeature

Australia’s leading companies in the heavy industrial sector will embark on a program that will enable a step-change in the rate at which they transition toward zero net-carbon emissions through the Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre (HILT CRC).

Penn State mourns the loss of Della Roy

April 12, 2021 sarah JonasFeature

The Penn State and materials research communities are mourning the loss of Della M. Roy, emeritus professor of materials science and a founding member of the Penn State Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), now the Materials Research Institute (MRI). Della died on March 27 at age 94. Della was known as an international leader in the field of cement and concrete research and for being a groundbreaker for women in science.

Bill Gates shines spotlight on carbon-emitting cement and need for something new

February 17, 2021 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has written a new book titled “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” and in it he argues that we need to get serious about changing the way we produce cement if we’re going to tackle climate…

Ettringite Cements Its Potential

December 21, 2020 sarah JonasResearch Results

Ettringite, a mineral found in cement, can latch on to and detain the wily and worrisome radioactive contaminant, pertechnetate.

Harmful Microbes Found on Sewer Pipe Walls

July 6, 2020 sarah JonasResearch Results

Can antibiotic-resistant bacteria escape from sewers into waterways and cause a disease outbreak? A new Rutgers study, published in the journal Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, examined the microbe-laden “biofilms” that cling to sewer walls, and even built a simulated sewer to study the germs that survive within.