Nanotechnology for Advanced and Sustainable Construction Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Nanotechnology has changed and will continue to change our vision and expectations of construction materials. Construction materials are an important subject in civil engineering, and important construction materials include concrete, steel, stones, bricks, plastics, timber, glass, and many metals. As nanotechnology has grown, new, sustainable, and smart nanomaterials have been developed by engineers and researchers all over the world and this process continues even today. Construction nanomaterials are widely used across the world due to their higher strength and lower density. For example, nanomaterials such as nano-silica, graphene, nano clays, nano CaCO₃, carbon nanotubes, etc., were found to be a very effective additive to polymers and concrete, and these materials significantly improved the workability and strength of polymers and concrete.

This Special Issue presents recent trends in the field of construction engineering with an emphasis on the applications of nanomaterials and their beneficial effects at the nanoscale. This Special Issue is focused on, but not confined to, five main research areas involving the construction of nanomaterials.

1. Nano silica in construction engineering;
2. Metal-based nanomaterials in construction engineering;
3. Concrete/reinforced concrete nanomaterials;
4. Nanofibers in construction engineering;
5. Smart nanomaterials (self cleaning; stress sensing; self compacting, building integrated photovoltaics, etc.).

We welcome full papers, communications, and review articles emphasizing the broad scope of the topic.

Dr. Yue Gu
Prof. Dr. Zhuangzhuang Liu
Guest Editors

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