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Carbon Forming

Sponsored by the OpenAir Collective, a volunteer-based + open source R+D / advocacy / policy organization, ongoing research focuses on methods of sequestering CO2 within various polymers to allow consumer products to be viable sources of carbon storage.

ongoing carbon utilization material R+D

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Desktop filament extruder used to conduct material exploration trials

Combination of PLA and PEN-100 (a carbon-sequestering polymer) in the extruder's hopper

Carbon-storing filament being produced with the extruder

Spool of filament

3D printed object made with carbon-storing filament

Two different material trials of various carbon percentages and a 3D printing test

3D printing trial testing the materiality and ability to print

Cyan, an open source / DIY carbon removal unit using store-bought items, which produces the calcium carbonate used in other material trials

Presenting the Carbon Forming system in a webinar April 2022

Presenting the Carbon Forming system at the Earth Day Initiative booth in Union Square, NYC during April 2022

Material trial compression molding PLA with CaCO3

Material trial thermoforming PLA with CaCO3

Material trial casting epoxy resin with CaCO3

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