Geopolymers for Sustainable Applications: Recent Advances and Future Perspective
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Circular and Green Sustainable Polymer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 456
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geopolymers; life-cycle assessment; recycled aggregate concrete
Interests: geopolymers; fly ash; XRD; ft-ir; blast furnace slag
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Portland cement industry has received wide criticism in the last decade due to its high embodied energy and carbon dioxide footprint. Numerous "clean" strategies and solutions have been developed, including geopolymer technology, which is gaining growing interest as a functional solution to designing more eco-friendly construction materials and waste management issues suffered by various industries.
This Special Issue aims to provide an update on recent advances and future perspective in the field of geopolymers (or alkali-activated materials) and their applications in alternative sustainable building materials. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): geopolymer properties in fresh and hardened states, including physical, mechanical, stress–strain, functional properties (thermal insulation, acoustic and optical properties) and durability properties, and life-cycle assessment. Papers may explore plain geopolymers (pastes, mortars and concretes), fibre-reinforced geopolymers, highly porous geopolymers, geopolymers with nanotechnology, luminescent geopolymers and low-carbon footprint geopolymers.
Prof. Dr. Ramón Corral Higuera
Prof. Dr. Susana Paola Arredondo-Rea
Dr. José Manuel Gómez-Soberón
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geopolymer
- geopolymer mortar
- geopolymer concrete
- fiber-reinforced geopolymer
- nanotechnological geopolymer
- stress-strain properties
- thermal properties
- acoustic properties
- optical properties
- life-cycle assessment
- geopolymer applications
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