A Big Change for Concrete Comes in Small Packages, page-27

Well well well.

How do you know that your ground-breaking new technology is going to be a major force moving forward? When the first of the big players tries to copy it.

"CANTON, MASS. (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and CHASM™ Advanced Materials (CHASM) are joining forces to advance scalable decarbonization technologies from discovery through deployment through a new memorandum of understanding, or MOU...

One common way to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint is to substitute cement with other cementitious materials like fly ash, but the use of high volumes of fly ash can substantially reduce the overall stiffness, flexural strength and early compressive strength of concrete. Research has shown that the addition of very small quantities of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) led to the production of concrete with unprecedented improvements in mechanical properties, potentially offsetting the effects of high volumes of fly ash. However, these results were obtained using non-scalable processes to overcome the challenges of dispersing CNTs in the mixture...

“CHASM is proud to partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to accelerate scalable cement decarbonization solutions,” Dave Arthur, CHASM CEO, said. “We are on a mission to develop low-carbon, low-cost, cement, and our partnership with ORNL will redefine what’s possible for the national and global concrete industry.”
Under the new MOU, the potential collaborative activities may include:

• Optimization of the proportion of CHASM’s additive, NTeC, to maximize fly-ash usage and displacement of carbon-intensive cement in concrete.
• Optimization of the dispersion process of CHASM’s NTeC additive to be compatible with construction practices in the field."

https://www.prweb.com/releases/ornl...e_decarbonization_of_cement/prweb18898212.htm

So, at least 5yrs for them to come up with their own version of EdenCrete Pz whilst EDE reaps the benefits of the validation of the tech and the marketing boost from others hearing about how CNTcrete can assist in the decarbonisation of the industry and other uses for our CNTs.