{"id":175372,"date":"2026-04-10T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=175372"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:28:59","slug":"using-seawater-and-electricity-scientists-create-a-new-carbon-negative-building-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/using-seawater-and-electricity-scientists-create-a-new-carbon-negative-building-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Seawater And Electricity, Scientists Create A New Carbon-Negative Building Material"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Scientists from Northwestern University\u2019s McCormick School of Engineering<\/a> have created<\/a> a new carbon-negative building material, using seawater, electricity, and carbon dioxide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study that led to this creation was spearheaded by Professor Alessandro Rotta Loria<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Building on previous work in his lab centered around long-term CO2 storage in concrete<\/a> and electrifying seawater to cement<\/a> marine soils, Rotta Loria and his team now focused on injecting CO2 into seawater and applying electricity to it in lab-based reactors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To create the carbon-negative material, the team placed electrodes into seawater and applied an electric current, where the low current split water molecules into hydroxide ions, releasing hydrogen gas, which is used as a clean fuel with various applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping the electric current on, the scientists then released a bubbling CO2 gas into the seawater, and as a result, this process changed the chemical composition of the seawater, ramping up the concentration of bicarbonate ions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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