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  • Rice Team Uses Fly Ash from Coal-Fired Power Plants to Replace Portland Cement
    News - 21 Jun 2018
    A composite binder composed mainly of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, has been developed by Rice University engineers to possibly serve as a replacement for Portland cement in...
  • Atomic Level Researched Hoped to Make Cement Better and More Environmentally Friendly
    News - 13 Sep 2009
    In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the...
  • Calcined Gypsum Plaster Water Content Calculated by Scientists
    News - 16 Apr 2009
    Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a...
  • The Uses of Raman Spectroscopy in Cement Chemistry
    Article - 29 Jan 2020
    Raman spectroscopy has been used to analyze the chemistry of cement since the 1970s, but this was plagued by various issues.
  • Building With Lime
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    Lime is one of the oldest building materials in existence and can be used to make many different types of mortar. Find out about the different types of lime, including lime putty and hydraulic lime.
  • What is the AFm phase in Portland Cements?
    Article - 30 Mar 2022
    AFm is abbreviated from ‘alumina, ferric oxide, monsulfate’. The AFm phase of Portland cement refers to a group of similar members of hydrated calcium aluminates that have a hydrocalumite-like...
  • Smog soaking paint
    News - 4 Feb 2004
    Millennium Chemicals has developed a paint that absorbs nitrogen oxide (NOx) gases from vehicle exhausts, a pollution source that can cause smog and respiratory problems. Next weeks edition of New...
  • New Method Confirms Direct Air Capture in Concrete
    News - 27 Nov 2023
    Carbon capture is important to decrease the influence of human carbon dioxide emissions on the climate. Sacred Torii Gate in Wajima, Japan. Japan’s concrete production has remained about the...
  • Using Bacteria to Self-Heal Cracks in Concrete Structures
    News - 11 Dec 2023
    New and exciting research emerging from Drexel University could increase the longevity of concrete structures by giving them the ability to heal themselves using bacteria. Image...
  • Rubber Consistency Ensured by using Conductivity Sensing
    News - 31 Jul 2006
    The Foxboro Measurements & Instruments Division of Invensys (www.foxboro.com/instrumentation) has provided a solution for Calzin, Inc.’s sticky rubber situation. Calzin, an international...
Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

With an increase in the pressure to decarbonize the built environment and build more carbon-neutral buildings, the reduction of embodied carbon has become of great importance.

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

AZoBuild talks to Professors Noguchi and Maruyama about their research and development of Calcium Carbonate Concrete (CCC), a new material that has the potential to cause a sustainable revolution in the construction industry.

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