Funded Projects

First funding period (2023-2026)

Projects Principal Investigator(s)
P1 Hardened cement paste activation as a pathway for concrete decarbonization Frank Dehn, KIT
P2 Net zero Concretes by Carbonation and Aluminate Reaction Boosting (NO-CARBON) Torben Gädt, TUM
Daniel Jansen, FAU
Dirk Lowke, TUM
P3 Carbonation and hydration – towards the low CO2 binders with enhanced early-age performance Qiao Wang, RWTH
Thomas Matschei, RWTH
P4 R-ClinkerControl: AI augmented control model for coping with fluctuating recycling waste in carbonate-melt clinkering for recycling-cement Michael Haist, LUH
Peter Stemmermann, KIT
P5 Accelerated Carbonation hardening of binders based on raw dolomite – a way to a new resource-efficient construction material with low CO2 footprint Harald Hilbig, TUM
P6 Supplementary cementitious materials reactivity: chemistry-structure relationships for dissolution kinetics by upscaling atomistic modeling (SuperUptom) Mohammadreza Izadifar, TUDa
P7 CO2-neutral biomass-based particle interactions for NET-ZERO Concretes (BIOMAC) – experiments and modeling Eduardus Koenders, TUDa
Bernhard Middendorf, Uni Kassel
P8 Steel slags as the basis for CO2-neutral binders Horst Michael Ludwig, BUW
Christiane Rößler, BUW
P9 re-CEM: Applicability of recycled concrete paste as SCM through CCU – Elucidating the correlation between chemical composition, amorphous gel structure, and pozzolanic reactivity Alisa Machner, TUM
P10 Thermodynamic Data for Production and Utilization of Net-Zero Binders (DatProBind) Thomas Matschei, RWTH
Dietmar Stephan, TUB
P11 Active Carbonation of Porous Mineral Binder Systems – A-COMBS Viktor Mechtcherine, TUD
Marco Liebscher, TUD
P12 Microanalytical and microstructural investigations on hardening and carbonation behavior of activated clay based materials Martin Ritter, TUHH
Frank Schmidt-Döhl, TUHH
P13 C-Cure: Net-Zero Concrete with Carbonatable Binders, Rapid Reactivity Testing, Internal CO2-Curing, and Upscaling Computations Christiane Rößler, BUW
Neven Ukrainczyk, TUDa
P14 Building to Building to Building to Binder (Bn) Karl-Christian Thienel,
UniBwM
P15 Development of low-CO2 binders based on material from burned coal mining dumps Anya Vollpracht, RWTH
Tobias Vraetz, RWTH

Associated Projects

Projects Principal Investigator(s)
AP1 Magnesium silicate binders: Activation, hydration and carbonation Jürgen Neubauer, FAU
Frank Bellmann, BUW