Geopolymer Institute

The American Ceramic Society has released a video by Prof. Trudy Kriven who chaired the last Geopolymer Session at the 34th Daytona 2010 Conference, Florida, Jan. 25-26, 2010.
Go to Video Kriven (15 minutes long video).

We have a first supplier for metakaolin MK-750, coined ARGICAL M1200S, specially designed for geopolymer application. It is the French kaolin clay company AGS, member of the Imerys group.
Go to
www.ags-mineraux.com.
Search for Products and choose Specialties.
To get the technical sheet (presently in French), go to the page Building Materials on the left margin and click on [...]

The 1st International Forum Ceramics & Brotherhood was held on July 4, 2008, Verona, Italy, during the 2nd International Congress on Ceramics ICC2. It involved representatives of African Countries (Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania) and European scientists. The aim of Ceramics & Brotherhood is the transfer of appropriate ceramic technologies to African Countries. Professor Joseph Davidovits [...]

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. Mat. in [...]

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

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)

Materials for the Third Millennium
Think Geopolymer and Geosynthesis!

The last few years have seen spectacular technological progress in the development of geosynthesis and geopolymeric applications.
New state-of-the-art materials designed with the help of geopolymerisation reactions are opening up new applications and procedures, and transforming ideas that have been taken for granted in inorganic and mineral chemistry.
Since the [...]

External repair and structural retrofit for aging infrastructure and aging buildings

Infrastructure in the United States such as bridges are degrading due to the corrosion of steel-reinforced concrete by salty water and deicing compounds. A relatively new and little known repair method for concrete and brick structures, consists of externally bonding flexible sheets [...]

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) [...]