Funded Projects

First funding period (2023-2026)

Projects title Principal Investigator
P1 Hardened cement paste activation as a pathway for concrete decarbonization Dehn, KIT
P2 Net zero Concretes by Carbonation and Aluminate Reaction Boosting (NO-CARBON) Gädt, TUM
Jansen, FAU
Lowke, TUM
P3 A fundamental model of coupled carbonation-hydration curing for optimal early-age performance of low CO2 binders Georget, RWTH Aachen
P4 R-ClinkerControl: AI augmented control model for coping with fluctuating recycling waste in carbonate-melt clinkering for recycling-cement Haist, UHannover
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 Hilbig, TUM
P6 Supplementary cementitious materials reactivity: chemistry-structure relationships for dissolution kinetics by upscaling atomistic modeling (SuperUptom) Izadifar, TUDa
P7 CO2-neutral biomass-based particle interactions for NET-ZERO Concretes (BIOMAC) – experiments and modeling Koenders, TUDa
Middendorf, UKassel
P8 Steel slags as the basis for CO2-neutral binders Ludwig, Weimar
P9 re-CEM: Applicability of recycled concrete paste as SCM through CCU – Elucidating the correlation between chemical composition, amorphous gel structure, and pozzolanic reactivity Machner, TUM
P10 Thermodynamic Data for Production and Utilization of Net-Zero Binders (DatProBind) Matschei, RWTH
Stephan, TU Berlin
P11 Active Carbonation of Porous Mineral Binder Systems – A-COMBS Mechtcherine, TU Dresden
P12 Microanalytical and microstructural investigations on hardening and carbonation behavior of activated clay based materials Ritter, TUHH
Schmidt-Döhl, TUHH
P13 C-Cure: Net-Zero Concrete with Carbonatable Binders, Rapid Reactivity Testing, Internal CO2-Curing, and Upscaling Computations Rößler, Weimar
Ukrainczyk, TU Darmstadt
P14 Building to Building to Building to Binder (Bn) Thienel, Uni Bund
P15 Development of low-CO2 binders based on material from burned coal mining dumps Vollpracht, RWTH
Weitkämpfer, RWTH