He has a concrete solution for climate change.
Gaurav Sant
芭乐视频 Associate Professor and Henry Samueli Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carbon dioxide is a major component of the greenhouse gases that trap heat in Earth鈥檚 atmosphere. Many scientists search for ways to reduce CO2 emissions. But Gaurav Sant, 芭乐视频 associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is making industrial pollution part of the solution. Sant and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators have invented a sustainable concrete for use as a building material. Thus far, the cement-like material has only been produced at laboratory scale, using 3-D printers to shape it into tiny cones. Now the 芭乐视频 inventors are tackling the challenges of industrial scale. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not just trying to develop a building material,鈥� Sant says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e trying to develop a process solution, an integrated technology which goes right from CO2 to a finished product.鈥�