{"id":914,"date":"2026-10-07T20:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/?p=914"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:08:10","slug":"csiros-push-to-fast-track-carbon-capture-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/csiros-push-to-fast-track-carbon-capture-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIRO&#8217;s new push to fast-track carbon capture materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/services\/page\/a2828b3257a193a24a\/\"><em>Matthew Coomber<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Through advanced automation, the Carbon Capture Materials Acceleration Centre is developing direct air capture (DAC) technologies to remove CO\u2082 directly from the atmosphere.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The centre uniquely brings together automated materials discovery, standardised testing, manufacturing scale-up and pilot-scale validation under one roof.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While early technologies drew from CO2 removal used in space and deep-water exploration, open-air DAC is a tougher problem carrying a big cost challenge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At CSIRO\u2019s Perth campus, a new lab will deliver an integrated capability unique in the Southern Hemisphere: taking carbon capture materials from laboratory discovery through to pilot-scale demonstration under one roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For CSIRO team leader Dr Colin Wood, the new facility he is building is both a career-defining project and a response to a timeline that is running out.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-1619x1080.jpg 1619w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-385x256.jpg 385w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-577x384.jpg 577w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-770x512.jpg 770w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-1152x768.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Colin-Wood-is-leading-CSIROs-new-carbon-capture-laboratory-in-Perth-350x233.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"transcript__info\"><div class=\"transcript__caption\"><div class=\"transcript__caption-text\"><p>Dr Colin Wood is leading CSIRO\u2019s new carbon capture laboratory in Perth<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somewhere in a laboratory right now, a scientist is working on a material that could cost-effectively pull significant quantities of CO\u2082 out of the atmosphere. The chemistry might be genuinely novel, and the early results might be promising. But 10 years from now, that material could still be sitting on a lab bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the problem Colin is trying to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s leading construction of the Carbon Capture Materials Acceleration Centre, CCMAC, at CSIRO\u2019s Waterford campus in Perth. CCMAC\u2019s focus is Direct Air Capture (DAC): technology that removes CO\u2082 directly from the atmosphere rather than capturing it at the point of emission. It targets carbon that is already up there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funded through a $10.2 million partnership between CSIRO and the Western Australian Government, CCMAC will be among the first facilities globally to bring together an Automated Materials Discovery platform (AMD), standardised testing, manufacturing scale-up and pilot-scale validation under one roof.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-1920x1080.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-600x338.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-250x141.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-450x253.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-750x422.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-385x217.jpeg 385w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-577x325.jpeg 577w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-770x433.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-1155x650.jpeg 1155w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-178x100.jpeg 178w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-150x84.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Scientists-Hongqi-Wang-and-Emma-Bawden-commissioning-a-number-of-direct-air-capture-testing-stations-for-CCMACs-Automated-Materials-Discovery-Platform-350x197.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"transcript__info\"><div class=\"transcript__caption\"><div class=\"transcript__caption-text\"><p><em>Scientists Hongqi Wang and Emma Bawden commissioning a number of direct air capture testing stations for the Centre\u2019s innovative Automated Materials Discovery platform. See the visualisation below for how the AMD works<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood is blunt about what the sector is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOther groups globally have got different pieces of the puzzle \u2013 automated material discovery, advanced testing, pilot-scale manufacturing and testing. What we\u2019re doing with CCMAC is bringing it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why direct air capture \u2013 and why now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood holds that DAC solves a problem that other approaches can\u2019t \u2013 how to deal with legacy emissions, carbon that\u2019s already in the atmosphere. \u201cIt also acts as a bridge for technologies that are hard to decarbonise. It\u2019s difficult to imagine how you couple carbon capture directly onto an airplane. DAC offers a path to allow those industries to transition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The technology works using sorbent materials that selectively bind CO\u2082 as air moves through or over them. Wood describes it as similar to an air handling unit in a ventilation system. The earliest DAC materials drew heavily on CO\u2082 scrubbers used in space and deep-water exploration, where concentrations are much higher and the chemistry is somewhat easier. Open-air DAC has to work at roughly 420 parts per million \u2013a much harder problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAC is relatively young as a field. Although the concept dates back several decades, serious commercial and research activity accelerated in the late noughties, but it remains early-stage. Startups are beginning to scale projects globally, but for Wood, the pace is not fast enough, and the cost figures explain why.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Summer-Han-and-Haftom-Weldekidan-with-the-automated-materials-discovery-reaction-chamber-where-DAC-sorbents-are-rapidly-synthesised-and-thousands-of-new-samples-can-be-produced-each-year-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Summer-Han-and-Haftom-Weldekidan-with-the-automated-materials-discovery-reaction-chamber-where-DAC-sorbents-are-rapidly-synthesised-and-thousands-of-new-samples-can-be-produced-each-year-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, 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https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Summer-Han-and-Haftom-Weldekidan-with-the-automated-materials-discovery-reaction-chamber-where-DAC-sorbents-are-rapidly-synthesised-and-thousands-of-new-samples-can-be-produced-each-year-350x197.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"transcript__info\"><div class=\"transcript__caption\"><div class=\"transcript__caption-text\"><p><em>Summer Han and <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/dr-haftom-weldekidan\/\">Haftom Weldekidan<\/a> with the Automated Materials Discovery\u2019s reaction chamber \u2013 where DAC starting materials are synthesised into potential carbon capture sorbents.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Energy Association\u2019s (IEA) 2026 World Energy Investment report puts the capture cost for first-of-a-kind DAC systems at between US$500 and US$1,900 per tonne of CO\u2082, reflecting early-stage designs and limited deployment experience. The same report estimates that advances in capture materials, process efficiency and economies of scale could bring costs down to around US$300 per tonne by mid-century. Getting there requires roughly US$1 billion in public R&amp;D funding already being mobilised globally, and exactly the kind of materials acceleration work that CCMAC is designed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IEA also references a structural problem that goes beyond cost: markets for durable carbon removal are still emerging, which means projects have struggled to secure the firm offtake arrangements needed to attract private finance. Until policy catches up, it\u2019s public investment in the underlying science that is keeping the field moving.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Hongqi-Wang-in-CCMACs-automated-materials-discovery-laboratory-a-dedicated-facility-using-robotics-to-produce-and-test-thousands-of-new-direct-air-capture-sorbents-each-year-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Hongqi-Wang-in-CCMACs-automated-materials-discovery-laboratory-a-dedicated-facility-using-robotics-to-produce-and-test-thousands-of-new-direct-air-capture-sorbents-each-year-768x1024.jpeg 768w, 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100vw, 768px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"transcript__info\"><div class=\"transcript__caption\"><div class=\"transcript__caption-text\"><p><em>Hongqi Wang in CCMAC\u2019s automated materials discovery laboratory where a robotic arm will move across a rail system to transport samples between synthesis, testing and cleaning stations \u2013 helping produce and assess thousands of new direct air capture sorbents each year<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood sees the materials gap as the logical place to push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA lot of the research groups working on this are focusing on lab-scale peak performance, but that tends to stay at smaller scale. We need to move away from just focusing on peak performance and actually design in the scalability piece. Does it work at large scale? Can it be scaled quickly?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Twenty-five years in the making<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSIRO has been working on carbon capture technologies for more than 25 years. CCMAC draws directly on work done developing CarbonAssist, CSIRO\u2019s own solid sorbent technology, which gave the team direct experience in scaling materials beyond the laboratory and understanding what it takes to move from discovery to larger-scale validation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Wood, the project pulls together threads from across his career, including high-throughput approaches from his PhD; manufacturing chemistry from research postings in the UK and the US, working on coatings for a range of applications including coatings for aortic stents; and pilot engineering expertise at CSIRO over recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose stent coatings and DAC sorbents are very different applications, but at the surface chemistry level they share more than you might expect,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applying that accumulated capability to a big issue was a deliberate choice. \u201cClimate change is a global problem. Opening this capability as a shared resource means you can start sharing real knowledge, infrastructure and technical capability more broadly across industry and the research sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who will use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CCMAC is designed for a range of users at different stages of development. A university group with a promising new material but no path to scale can bring it to the centre and find out whether it actually works at size. A startup needing to validate technology before seeking investment can run it through standardised testing. A company exploring whether a sorbent can be manufactured at commercial volumes can work with the team on chemical scale-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause we\u2019ve got that whole value chain, you can see how a university might be interested in the early discovery end, whereas industry might be interested more in large-scale testing,\u201d Wood says.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-1619x1080.jpg 1619w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-385x256.jpg 385w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-577x384.jpg 577w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-770x512.jpg 770w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-1152x768.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/Dr-Zhijian-Wan-working-on-next-generation-sorbent-materials-for-scalable-direct-air-capture-of-carbon-dioxide-350x233.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"transcript__info\"><div class=\"transcript__caption\"><div class=\"transcript__caption-text\"><p><em>Dr Zhijian Wan working on next generation sorbent materials at CCMAC for scalable direct air capture of carbon dioxide<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a less visible benefit too. Today, R&amp;D organisations test materials in their own ways, making it almost impossible to compare results across the sector, or build reliably on each other\u2019s work. Shared, standardised testing protocols change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first material to go through the full CCMAC pipeline will be one CSIRO has developed in-house: a hybrid sorbent that sits between conventional solid and liquid-based systems. It begins in powder form, which is easiest to synthesise and test at bench scale. That same chemistry will then be assessed in other form factors more suitable for large-scale deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Three years, four milestones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funding for CCMAC will run for three years, released in stages tied to specific delivery points: first the automated discovery platform working with small volumes of material, then the testing infrastructure, then expanded standardised testing capability. The final stage is the pilot plant, which Wood says will target around 100 kilograms of sorbent \u2013 a scale that bridges the gap between laboratory testing and larger engineering systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Year one is building and commissioning the lab. Year two is running it and screening materials, moving from concept to real-world performance data, year three is bringing in external users. By year five, Wood wants to see genuinely deployable DAC technologies coming out of the pipeline, a cohort of trained researchers and engineers entering the workforce, and a centre funding itself through fees for service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just about building infrastructure,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about identifying scalable solutions. If we can shorten that path from scientific discovery to real-world capture solutions, that aligns the research with what the climate actually requires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Achieving net zero by 2050 means capturing billions of tonnes of CO\u2082 annually. The materials to do that are being discovered right now, in labs around the world. CCMAC is being built to make sure they don\u2019t languish there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The AMD and how it works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using robotics and AI, the Automated Materials Discovery platform \u2013 AMD \u2013 is designed and built to systematically screen thousands of materials, creating reproducible benchmarks for carbon capture performance and discovering next generation sorbents<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1811\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-1024x725.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-1536x1087.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-2048x1449.png 2048w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-1526x1080.png 1526w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-600x425.png 600w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-250x177.png 250w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-450x318.png 450w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-750x531.png 750w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-362x256.png 362w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-543x384.png 543w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-724x512.png 724w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-1085x768.png 1085w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-141x100.png 141w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/files\/2026\/10\/CCMAC_AMD_THIN_BORDER_enhanced_2x-350x248.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-h-6-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><em>CCMAC is funded through a 50\/50 partnership between CSIRO and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wa.gov.au\/service\/business-support\/industry-assistance-schemes\/lower-carbon-grants-program-gorgon-fund\">Western Australian Government\u2019s Lower Carbon Grants Program, Gorgon Fund<\/a>, administered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.data.wa.gov.au\/en\/organization\/about\/department-of-mines-industry-regulation-and-safety\">WA Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety<\/a>. The $10.2 million, three-year project is based at CSIRO\u2019s Waterford campus in Perth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, automated facility in Perth, Western Australia is designing carbon capture materials from laboratory discovery through to pilot-scale demonstration under one roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nba-redirect":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-negative-co2-emissions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CSIRO @ GHGT-18<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/ghgt-18\/csiros-push-to-fast-track-carbon-capture-materials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CSIRO&#039;s new push to fast-track carbon capture materials - 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