Research on Properties of Novel Building Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon capture and carbon neutral building materials; nano-modified hydraulic and marine engineering materials; building energy storage and bionic multifunctional materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: durability; concrete structure; microstructure
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High speed has given way to high quality in the building industry's development trend in recent years. There is a growing need for environmentally friendly, durable, and multipurpose building materials to satisfy the public's expectations for a comfortable living space. Even building materials are on the verge of undergoing a paradigm shift.
For this Special Issue, authors are kindly invited to submit high-quality papers on the following topics:
- CO2 storage in building materials.
- Energy storage in concrete.
- Self-sensing in building materials.
- Artificial intelligence-enhanced building materials.
- Nano-modified building materials, such as piezoresistive effect, photocatalytic color change, self-cleaning, and other properties.
Dr. Yue Gu
Prof. Dr. Lin Liu
Dr. Kai Lyu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- construction materials
- durability
- low carbon
- CO2 uptake
- energy storage
- self-sensing
- artificial intelligence
- nano-modified
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