Widening the Lens on Innovation for Clean Manufacturing: Alternative Materials Manufacturing

Alternative Materials Workshop | February 17, 2021

Workshop focused on the development of novel engineered materials with increased functionality and lower production energy requirements, specifically considering whether higher material functionality and resulting reduction can offset additional cost at scale.

Challenge & Issues for Discussion

• Alternative Materials

Workshop Summaries

• Technical Appendices

Speaker Presentations & Recordings

• Embodied Carbon, Meghan Lewis, Senior Research, Carbon Leadership Forum

• Materials and Manufacturing Tech: Full Project Lifecycle Sustainability, Robert D. Moser, Ph.D., SSTM, Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers

• Computational Materials Design: Affordable Change, G.B. Olson, ThermoCalc Professor of the Practice, MIT & QuesTek Innovations LLC

• Rethinking Bio-industrial Manufacturing, Patrick P. Rose, PhD, Science Director Synthetic Biology & Program Manager of BioMADE