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Dr David Stone works on a small domed building made with Ferrock, a material he has been developing as an alternative to Portland cement
Collaborative venture between Iron Shell LLC of US and VIT Chennai ANI | Updated: Dec 24, 2020 13:44 IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI/SRV Media): A new green alternative to Portland cement will be studied and developed in the Concrete Technology and Structures Laboratory at VIT Chennai.
The innovative cement is called Ferrock because it is an iron-based material and becomes hard like a rock when it reacts with carbon dioxide. This greenhouse gas is trapped in the material making it carbon negative. In contrast, the manufacture of Portland cement is a huge source of CO2 and contributes about 8 per cent to the total global output.
The University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Engineering. Photo Credit: 401 Tech Bridge
401 Tech Bridge (Portsmouth, R.I., U.S.) announced on Dec. 15 Rhode Island-based Canapitsit Customs LLC (Bristol), Nautilus Defense (Pawtucket) and TxV Aerospace Composites (Bristol) as the winners of the company’s Materials Innovation Challenge, which connects innovators to academic resources to accelerate the development of advanced composite materials and technologies.
401 Tech Bridge will provide $105,000 ($35,000 per project) to the University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Engineering. Project funding will support collaboration with URI’s Dynamic Photomechanics Laboratory led by Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor, Arun Shukla and Assistant Professor, Helio Matos and its Multiscale and Multiphysics Mechanics of Materials Research Laboratory led by Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sumanta Das on modeling, research testing a
URI students, professors will support winners of Materials Innovation Challenge
The new Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering at the University of Rhode Island
(URI Photo/Nora Lewis)
KINGSTON, R.I. – Dec. 15, 2020 – Three Rhode Island companies will soon benefit from faculty expertise at the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering as part of the 401 Tech Bridge Materials Innovation Challenge. Canapitsit Customs and TxV Aerospace Composites, both of
Bristol, and Nautilus Defense, a
Pawtucket-based small business, were selected as challenge winners from applicants across the country, enabling them to leverage the University’s academic resources and to work with three preeminent advanced materials researchers.