During past four years, we have been conducting research on the potential of harvesting bacteria metabolic pathways  to capture CO2 via in situ biomineralization, our research has been focused on three following lines:

1. CO2 capture and ground improvement through CO2-based biocementation:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674775526002854 

2. Developing bactoinks for 3D bioprinting of 3D constructs capable of carbon capture: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844026000939 

3. Heavy metal removal through CO2 based biocementation: namely microbially-facilitated and  enzymatically-facilitated carbonation (MFC, and EFC, respectively) and biomineralization (In press, coming soon!)

Core Team Members:

Sajjad Deylaghian (PhD)  (Geotechnical Eng.)

Mojtaba Ansari (PhD) (Geotechnical Eng.)

Hamed Aghili (MSc) (Material Science Eng.)

Ehsan Khodayari (MSc) (Material Science Eng.)

Mohammad Reza Jahanmard (MSc in Environmental Eng., with BSc in Mechanical Eng.)

Core colleagues (collaborations)

International:

Prof. Thomas Nagel (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Lehrstuhl für Bodenmechanik und Grundbau)

National

Prof. Ali Niazi (Institute of Biotechnology, School of Agricultural Science)

Prof. Sirus Javadpour (Material Science and Eng. Dept.)