Geopolymer Institute

An international patent # WO 2004/026698 has been published on the making of fire-resistant containers. One of the inventors is Andrew Foden, former member of the geopolymer group at Rutgers University, Professor P. Balaguru, USA, and co-author of several papers on fire-resistant geopolymer composites.

The geopolymer group at University of Illinois, Prof. W. Kriven, participated to the Center for Microanalysis of Materials (CMM) image contest with an image titled: 10. Vitrification of 3SiO2:Al2O3:K2O:10H2O geopolymer gel by heating to 1600°C. Crystallization of the glass systems was dendritic as seen by in micrograph of the top surface. Jonathan Bell, Kriven group. [...]

Report from the Air Force Research Laboratory on geopolymer research and developments report project number 9.
AFRL is funding and conducting cutting-edge geopolymer research. Both intramural and extramural research has led to the development of new ceramics materials that possess superior properties, leading to more cost-effective choices in the design of future Air Force (AF) [...]

Paper by Dan S Perera and Rachael L Trautman from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

The geopolymer group at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (Prof. V. Rangan) has released 2 new reports on Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Concrete. They may be downloaded from our Library.
The first report: Report GC 2 is dealing with the long term properties. It has been included in the Technical Paper #17 in the Library, [...]

The International Conference on Pozzolan, Concrete and Geopolymer, is organized by

Khon Kaen University, Sustainable Infrastructure Research and Development Center, (SIRDC),
Thai Geopolymer Network
Thai Concrete Association

and will be held on 24-25 May, 2006 at Sofitel Raja Hotel, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
The program on Geopolymer includes :

Development of geopolymer
Use of different stock feeds [...]

Palomo calcined the kaolinite at 750°C for 24h.
Don’t you think that this time can diminuish the viability of the geopolymer in large scale?
Do you think that Palomo has really synthesized a geopolymer one? He did exactly what you say in your patents (US 4,349,386) will not work, namely: invert the addition of the reagents. He [...]

Geopolymers,
Green Chemistry
and Sustainable Development Solutions.
Proceedings of the Geopolymer 2005 World Congress

The book contains the proceedings of the World Congress Geopolymer 2005, held in France and in Australia, on geopolymer science, technology and applications. More than 180 people attended the congress, 85 international research institutions and companies presented a total of 75 papers. They cover [...]

In Sept. 2004, at the IXth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, France, Prof. Joseph Davidovits and Dr. Frederic Davidovits presented several papers depicting the chemical knowledge of the Egyptians involved in pyramid building.
One was dedicated to the manufacture of the famous blue faience tiles, like those adorning the subterranean galleries of the Djoser Step-Pyramid at [...]

The Geopolymer Group at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, Prof. Vijay Rangan, has released his Research Report for free download, available in the Library. It is paper # 17.
The title is:
DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTIES OF LOW-CALCIUM FLY ASH-BASED GEOPOLYMER CONCRETE
by Djwantoro Hardjito and B.Vijaya Rangan
Research Report GC 1 (103 pages) (dec. 2005)
Faculty of Engineering, Curtin University [...]