Roman seawater concrete holds the secret to cutting carbon emissions
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The chemical secrets of a concrete Roman breakwater that has spent the last 2,000 years submerged in the Mediterranean Sea have been uncovered by an international team of researchers led by Paulo Monteiro of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.