Special Webinar: Pathways to utilize locally available biomass residues in materials production
Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:00 pm Seth Kane, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Davis Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center Register to attend Global materials production, as of 2019, exceeded 42.8 Gt and was responsible for over 25% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Simultaneously, global forestry and agriculture resulted in 9 Gt of underutilized […]
Sabbie Miller
Faculty Director, UC Davis Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringChevron Endowed Chair in Energy Efficiency sabmil@ucdavis.edu 530-754-6407 Sabbie Miller is the Faculty Director of the UC Davis Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research is dedicated […]
Special Webinar: Decarbonizing High-Emissions Materials – Challenges and Opportunities for Cement, Steel, Plastics, and Bricks
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 | 1:00 – 2:00 pm Sabbie Miller, Faculty Director, UC Davis Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center Watch Video Materials like plastics generate high emissions during production due to energy-intensive processes, while others, such as cement and concrete, have high emissions largely due to their massive scale of consumption in construction. This […]
New Research Highlights Overestimation of Climate Benefits from Cement Carbonation
A recent study by the UC Davis Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center published in Nature Communications has revealed that the climate benefits of cement carbonation, a process where concrete absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, have been significantly overestimated. The research team of Sabbie Miller, Alissa Kendall, Elisabeth Van Roijen, and Kati Sethares asserts that […]
Innovative Recycling Method Could Revolutionize Cement and Steel Industries
Sabbie Miller, faculty director at the UC Davis Materials Decarbonization and Sustainability Center, recently shared with the journal Nature an innovative method to recycle cement and steel together, significantly reducing the carbon emissions associated with these materials. The method involves substituting used cement for lime in the steel recycling process using electric-arc furnaces, which not […]