Concrete strength jumps up with nanoplatelets extracted from carrot and sugar beet fiber

by Mink Mingle

A research team at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom works with a company called CelluComp, which is doing business with cellulose obtained from root vegetables, and is studying about improving the strength of concrete.

Vegetables could hold the key to stronger buildings and bridges | Lancaster University
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/vegetables-could-hold-the-key-to-stronger- buildings-and-bridges

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We know that vegetables are good for the body ... ...

Vegetables are also stronger, more environmentally friendly "key" of architecture.

Now, in the construction industry, it is urgent to curb carbon emissions.

One of the main components of concrete, Portland cement, is exactly the source of intense carbon production ... ...

It accounts for 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide. Moreover, this ratio is expected to double in the next 30 years.

So Lancaster University experts are working with CelluComp to study how to use "root vegetables" to control CO 2 emissions.

Sugar beet ( beat and mix was extracted from) and carrots to "nano-platelets" to the concrete will create an even stronger mixture.

If the concrete itself becomes strong, we can reduce the amount used ....

This leads to reduction of CO 2 emissions.