Chemical Additives and Alternative Admixtures for Sustainable Construction Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Let me introduce this Special Issue of Materials, devoted to novel chemical additives and alternative admixtures for the development and production of sustainable construction materials. Nowadays, requirements for the sustainability of construction production and a reduction in its negative impacts on the environment are increasingly emphasized. This can only be achieved through the development of new building materials that are at least partly based on sustainable resources and have a low carbon footprint. The development of such materials implies the reuse of waste or secondary raw material resources, as well as the study and development of alternative admixtures and additives to improve the functional parameters of materials and their durability in relation to the specific requirements of building structures and construction practices. Currently, a number of additives are applied in the production of building materials, either in the preparation of the raw material mixture itself or subsequently for the modification of specific required properties, such as workability, compactability, the dispersion of reinforcing fibers and nanoparticles, hydrophobicity, mechanical resistance, abrasion resistance, the aeration of a matrix, or, on the contrary, its defoaming, etc. Similarly, various mineral and organic admixtures are used in the production of, e.g., lightweight materials, compound binders, and alternative fillers.

Although many construction composites incorporating different kinds of additives and admixtures have already been developed, there is still an open field for the design and development of new advanced types of materials that can be produced more effectively from functional, economic, and environmental points of view.

This Special Issue of Materials welcomes papers from all areas of material research aimed at the design, development, and assessment of new composites for construction use, modified with novel chemical additives and alternative admixtures, where papers of high quality and contributing with clear novelty to the studied topic will be accepted.

Prof. Dr. Zbyšek Pavlík
Guest Editor

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• chemical additives
• alternative admixtures
• construction composites
• experimental assessment
• durability