Cement-Based Materials: Synthesis, Mechanical Properties and Applications

This Special Issue, entitled “Special Inorganic Cements and Cement-Based Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications”, is dedicated to all scientists who adhere to the principle “from science to technology”. Special inorganic cements are powdered materials that undergo reactions in water medium to produce ions in solution. The ions then combine and the solid hydrates precipitate from the solution. Hardened cement paste is unstable both chemically and structurally, and it continuously changes with time. Fine and ultrafine components of binders, here referred to as matrix, are an important part of concretes, cement-based materials and cement-free materials, that determine, besides the flowability, workability and strength, the performance in special application (e.g. high temperature applications). Hence, designing cementitious materials with improved properties via the bottom-up nanofabrication approach is an important strategy to develop technologically attractive materials.

Summarizing, this issue will accept papers concerning:

• Scientific aspects of calcium aluminate cements, synthesis, hydration and applications.
• Constituents and composition of calcium aluminate cements.
• Calcium aluminate hydrate phases, conversion and properties.
• The hydration of pure calcium aluminates and doped calcium aluminates.
• Aluminous cement based composite binders.
• Novel binders alternative to calcium aluminate cements.
• Cements for high performance concretes.
• Cementitious phases and cements containing strontium and barium compounds.
• Cement-based composites: materials, mechanical properties and performance.
• Application of calcium aluminate cements and related binders.
• Hydraulic binders for refractory castables.
• Supplementary cementitious materials in concretes.
• Testing of cement-based and cement-free materials.

Prof. Nocun-Wczelik Wieslawa
Prof. Dr. Dominika Madej
Guest Editors

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