News and Conferences
First Book on Geopolymers!
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 [...]
Geopolymer Special Event at ICC2, July 01, 2008, Verona, Italy
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, [...]
Geopolymer Session in 32nd ICACC, Jan. 2008, Florida, USA.
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 [...]
Master degree in Geopolymer Engineering
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 [...]
Website’s birthday: already 11 years old
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 [...]
NATURE report on pyramid limestone concrete
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 [...]
Cutting-Edge analysis proves Davidovits’ Pyramid theory
On November 30, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society has released a very important scientific research carried out on the pyramid stones, which confirms the theory developed by Professor Joseph Davidovits on agglomerated (artificial) limestone concrete (ancient geopolymer). The references of this paper are : Barsoum, M. W., Ganguly, A. & Hug, G. (2006), [...]
F.A.A. paper on fire-resistant geopolymer application
Dr. R. Lyon from Federal Aviation Administration, USA and Dr. P. Balaguru from Rutgers University, NJ, USA, have published a new paper involving the use of a geopolymer coating on light balsa wood, for aircraft application. The title of the paper: Use of Inorganic Polymer to Improve the Fire Response of Balsa Sandwich Structures J. [...]
Paper on geopolymer-kalsilite-leucite transformation
The geopolymer group at ANSTO (Dr. Dan S. Perera), Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, has released a paper on the geopolymer-kalsilite-leucite heat transformation. It is available for free download Abstract A geopolymer was prepared by dissolving metakaolinite in a solution of K2SiO3 and KOH and curing at 80°C for 24 h. It was progressively [...]
NASA uses geopolymer for making mirrors
Geopolymer laminate has been used by NASA in the manufacture of sophisticated mirrors : Advanced Processing of the Optical Surface on Large Lightweight Mirrors. The link to this application
New to geopolymers? Want to learn more about this chemistry? Here is the only to place to buy at a special price a bundle comprising the book "Geopolymer Chemistry & Applications" 3rd ed. together with the video "Geopolymer for newcomers".