Geopolymer Institute

Arts et Métiers Magazine
N°180, Sept. 1993:
From ancient concretes to geopolymer
“Des bétons antiques au géopolymère”
( in English, en Français )
This paper has been adapted from an article written for the general audience by two independent French journalists. It outlines the story of geopolymer and his inventor Prof. Joseph Davidovits .
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IXth Egyptology Congress, Grenoble, 2004
Why Djoser’s blue Egyptian faience tiles are not blue?
Manufacturing Djoser’s faience tiles
at temperatures as low as 250°C?
by
Joseph Davidovits and Ralph Davidovits
30,000 blue faience tiles were found in Djoser’s funerary complex at Saqqarah (3. dynasty). It is generally assumed that the tiles underwent a self-glazing process during firing in the range of [...]

A la recherche du Carbunculus (searching for Carbunculus)
by Frédéric Davidovits, Université de Caen
published in Revue Voces, Vol. 5, pp. 33-46 (1994),
( in French, en Français )
Abstract in English:
Carbunculus, as described by Vitruvius (2, 4, 1; 2, 6, 6; 8, 1, 2), is a mineral used like a pouzzolana, which, when added, yields a very good [...]

Les mortiers de pouzzolanes artificielles chez Vitruve:
évolution historique et archirtecturale
DEA thesis by Frédéric Davidovits,
université de Nanterre – Paris X, 1993
( in French, en Français )
Contrairement à ce que l’on croit généralement, les sables employés dans les mortiers dits hydrauliques chez les romains sont de nature pouzzolaniques car d’origine volcanique. Des archéologues comme [...]

Fabrication of stone objects, by geopolymeric synthesis, in the pre-incan Huanka civilization (Peru)
Joseph DAVIDOVITS and Francisco ALIAGA
Abstract of a paper presented at the 21st International Symposium for Archaeometry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 1981 (page 21).
It is now agreed, that the TIHUANACO civilisation is modeled on the pre-incan HUANKA civilisation revealed by an extraordinary [...]