Geopolymer Institute

The famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, is supporting Prof. Davidovits’ re-agglomerated stone (concrete) pyramid theory. At MIT, Professor Hobbs and two colleagues and students are experimenting the construction of a small scale pyramid using the method recommended by Davidovits.
Go to the Boston Globe article of April 22, 2008 titled
A new angle on pyramids
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The Geopolymer Institute organizes a “GeopolymerCamp” on every first Wednesday of July, every year, at Saint-Quentin, north of Paris, France.
Mark your calendars and plan on being in Saint-Quentin, France, on Wednesday 1st July 2009 for the first GeopolymerCamp (next year, not this year 2008).
GeopolymerCamp: What’s this all about?
GeopolymerCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from [...]

The pages dedicated to the Training Courses are on line. They include registration form, detailed courses program, access map, hotel/restaurants and other details for your stay in Saint-Quentin. Go to Learning
Hope to see you in Saint-Quentin soon,
Professor Joseph Davidovits

The Geopolymer Institute is introducing a series of training courses on Geopolymer Chemistry, Geopolymer Science and related Applications. The 2-day and 3-day courses will be held at the Geopolymer Institute, Saint-Quentin, France (one and half hours drive North of Paris), with low-rates Hotels in the vicinity. The first series of courses start on April 01. [...]

Professor Joseph Davidovits is proud to announce the release of his book entitled: GEOPOLYMER CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS with ca. 590 pages and 26 Chapters.
The photo shows the first printing for proof-reading. We expect to get the first exemplars printed for the end of February 2008. The first edition of the book will be sold [...]

The 2nd International Ceramic Conference is organized by major international institutions: American Ceramic Society, European Ceramic Society and Asian Ceramic Society. Its President, Dr. Nicola Babini asked the Geopolymer community to organize a Geopolymer Special Event. This is a great opportunity for us. We shall tell to the world that an ecological high-tech, environmentally friendly, [...]

The 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC) is held each year in Florida.
In Jan 27th - Feb 1st 2008, there will be a focused session on Geopolymers.
If you are interested I would like to encourage you to present a talk or poster on your recent work in this area. The conference [...]

The Tomas Bata University in Zlin Czech Republic, Europe, announces opening the prestigious full time (2 year) master’s course in Polymer Engineering (polymer science and technology) including Geopolymer Engineering. The program is held in English under supervision of prof. J. Davidovits and the 3rd and 4th semesters are dealing with high-tech and low-tech Geopolymers and [...]

On January 14th, 2007, we celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Geopolymer Institute Website. It is the first time we share this event with you, dear visitors. You are reading the first source of geopolymer science and we thank you for making it a success.
We would like to share with you a piece of the [...]

The scientific magazine NATURE, vol. 444, 793 (14 december 2006) writes in his News about the recent analysis on pyramid stones:
Materials Science: Concrete evidence
J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 89, 3788–3796 (2006)
Some of the massive blocks making up the great pyramids of Giza in Egypt (pictured) are not limestone, but a synthetic mix like concrete, argue materials [...]