
Gaurav Sant
PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Henry Samueli Fellow
5731-J Boelter Hall
Email:Phone: (310) 206-3084
Fax: (310) 206-2222
Websites
Laboratory for the Chemistry of Construction Materials
Gaurav Sant
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Research InterestsOur research efforts are directed towards the development and design of sustainable low-CO2 foot-print materials for infrastructure construction applications. These efforts are three-fold encompassing:
- strategies to utilize natural and waste materials in concrete by inferring optimal chemical combination’s and compatibilities of constituent materials using thermodynamic calculations and experimental evaluations,
- the formulation and-or utilization of application specific organic and inorganic chemicals to improve the properties, durability performance and service-life of concrete structures and
- developing CO2-insensitive concretes for use in carbon sequestration and fixation applications.
- Low-Clinker Factor Cements and Concretes
- Carbon Fixation and Sequestration in Cementitious Materials
- Organic Polymer Additions for Property Modifications
- Blast and Fire Resistant Infrastructure Materials
- Mitigation of Deleterious Phenomena Caused by Salt Crystallization
IN THE NEWS
- Using Dirt to Clean Up Construction | Eos
- UCLA team nabs $2.9M grant to turn CO2 into concrete | Construction Dive
- These Companies are Turning CO2 into Concrete.. Could it be the Solution to Construction’s Emissions Problem? | This is Construction
- Turning carbon into concrete could win UCLA team a climate victory — and $7.5 million | Los Angeles Times
- UCLA engineers received $1.5 million grant to make environmentally friendly concrete | UCLA Samueli
- Capture Carbon in Concrete Made With CO2 | IEEE Spectrum
- Scientists developing eco-friendly concrete | Tri-Valley Dispatch
EDUCATION
Ph.D., (2009), Purdue University M.S.C.E, (2007), Purdue University B.S.C.E, (2006), Purdue University
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- The Bryant Mather ‘Best Paper Award’ (Concrete Materials Section): The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, (2006, 2008)
- The Fred Burggraf Award for ‘Best Paper by a Young Researcher’ – The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, (2007)
- William L. Dolch Graduate Scholarship for Outstanding Research in Materials Science – The School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, (2007)