A new UCLA-led study reveals how graphene oxide, a carbon-based nanomaterial, can be incorporated into cementitious mixtures to produce higher-performance concrete
Concrete has a guilt problem. Every tonne of cement you pour into a dam, a bridge, a housing block, carries with it roughly 800 kilograms of carbon dioxide released during manufacture, roughly twice the weight of the cement itself. The industry accounts for about 8 percent of global CO2 emissions, which puts it on a par with all the world’s cars put together, or thereabouts. And yet fixing it has…
