Geopolymer Institute

Up to 90% reduction of CO2 Greenhouse Gas emission during cement manufacture
Professor J. Davidovits started working on CO2 emissions mitigation as earlier as 1990, at PennState Materials Research Laboratory, USA. American Agencies (DOE and EPA) stated that this was not an important issue and both institutions declined to support research proposals.
In this section we develop:
a) [...]

GEOpolymeric Cements for Innocuous
Stabilisation of Toxic EleMents

Geosynthesis of Rock-based Geopolymer cements was the objective of the European multidisciplinary BriteEuram industrial research project GEOCISTEM. The project titled cost effective GEOpolymeric Cements for Innocuous Stabilization of Toxic EleMents, in short GEOCISTEM, started on Jan. 1994 and has been completed on June 1997.
In J. Davidovits’ book, Geopolymer Chemistry [...]

NASTS award 1994
Presentation at the national “Real Advances in Materials” Symposium, Washington DC, Sept. 26,1994
GEOPOLYMERS: Inorganic polymeric new materials
by Joseph Davidovits
published in Journal of Materials Education, Vol. 16 (2,3), pp. 91-138 (1994)
In the aftermath of various catastrophic fires in France between 1970-73, which involved common organic plastic, research on non-flammable and non-combustible plastic materials became [...]

Updated list of publications from the Geopolymer Research Group, Wellington, New Zealand, MacKenzie et al. (1999-2007). See the list New Zealand Geopolymer Group
Use of Inorganic Polymer to Improve the Fire Response of Balsa Sandwich Structures, James Giancaspro, P. N. Balaguru, and Richard E. Lyon, J. Mat. in Civ. Engrg., Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 390-397 [...]

The famous report on Sustainable Cement Industry published by the Batelle Institute, titled Climate Change, is available on the Internet at the following address:
www.wbcsdcement.org/pdf/final_report8.pdf
This report confirms the studies carried out by Prof. Joseph Davidovits since 1990 on CO2 emissions during Portland Cement manufacture (in the LIBRARY the paper on Global Warming). Batelle’s report recommends the [...]