Let's grab CO2 right out of the air using products we use everyday.  Using bricks, pavers, and roof tiles, we could potentially reach 1 Gton of CO2 mineralized per year.  Read about it more here.

Net-negative bricks and pavers are available now from Summit Brick Co. and soon a brick manufacturer near you.  Our net-negative technologies use existing building materials markets instead of the carbon capture credit markets for profitability.

Brian's recent appointment as a Faculty Startup Fellow at Mines allows him to work on commercializing this technology as part of his faculty appointment.  Contact him for more information.

In this program, we use ceramic processing techniques to produce fake rocks with controlled chemistry, phase, and microstructure / porosity.  We are able to control all of these from microns to nanometers scales.  Controlled materials allow us to controllably study aqueous reactions with minerals.

We also use femtosecond laser etching to produce controlled microchannels through which aqueous reactions can be controllably studied.

Jung, H., Malenda, M., Worts, N., Squier, J., Gorman, B. P., & Navarre-Sitchler, A. (2020). The fabrication of plagioclase feldspar microdevices: An experimental tool for pore-scale mineral dissolution studies. Water Resources Research, 56, e2020WR027737.

https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/6289

https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/8069

This project is sponsored by DOE-Geochemistry and is in collaboration with Prof. Alexis Sitchler (Mines Geology).