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  • Open Access
26 Citations
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19 Pages

‘Extreme biomimetics’ and ‘geomimetics’ are relatively recent fields of materials chemistry. Both take inspiration from natural materials for generating novel synthetic materials or enhanced properties in known materials. In geomimetics, the source o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,047 Views
11 Pages

Self-Healing Construction Materials: The Geomimetic Approach

  • Valery Lesovik,
  • Roman Fediuk,
  • Mugahed Amran,
  • Nikolai Vatin and
  • Roman Timokhin

12 August 2021

A person spends most of his life in rooms built from various building materials; therefore, the optimization of the human environment is an important and complex task that requires interdisciplinary approaches. Within the framework of the new theory...

(This article belongs to the Collection The Impact of Digitalization on the Quality of Life)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,275 Views
16 Pages

18 June 2024

The aim of this work was to synthesize and study the functional properties of polymer-clay nanocomposite (PCNCs) based on poly(sodium 4-styrene sulfonate) (NaPSS) and two types of clay in the dispersed phase: bentonite and kaolinite, in order to adva...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Agriculture and Water Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,811 Views
11 Pages

3 March 2023

Digital technologies and Industry 4.0 hold the prospect of improving the sustainability performance of manufacturing, but the environmental implications of this transformation are uncertain. To contribute to resolving the environmental impacts of pro...

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  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,211 Views
13 Pages

Production of Greener High-Strength Concrete Using Russian Quartz Sandstone Mine Waste Aggregates

  • Aleksandr Tolstoy,
  • Valery Lesovik,
  • Roman Fediuk,
  • Mugahed Amran and ,
  • Murali Gunasekaran,
  • Nikolai Vatin and
  • Yuriy Vasilev
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 December 2020

Quartz sandstone (QS) is a mine waste; therefore, its use in construction allows for both reducing the cost of the concrete and contributing to the utilization of waste. The scientific originality of this study is the identification of models of the...

(This article belongs to the Collection Concrete and Building Materials)