Geopolymer Institute

The Geopolymer Institute is introducing a series of training courses (learning / teaching) on Geopolymer Chemistry, Geopolymer Science and related Applications. The 2-day, 3-day and 4-day courses will be held at the Geopolymer Institute, Saint-Quentin, France (one and half hours drive North of Paris), with low-rates Hotels in the vicinity.
Course director
All the courses will [...]

The Geopolymer Institute is introducing a series of training courses on Geopolymer Chemistry, Geopolymer Science and related Applications. The 2-day and 3-day courses will be held at the Geopolymer Institute, Saint-Quentin, France (one and half hours drive North of Paris), with low-rates Hotels in the vicinity. The first series of courses start on April 01. [...]

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 [...]

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.

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, [...]

Curtin Research Report on Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete
Reinforced beams and columns
by Djwantoro Hardjito and B.Vijaya Rangan
Research Report GC 3 (120 pages) (mar. 2006)
Faculty of Engineering, Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Australia
This Research Report describes the behaviour and strength of reinforced low-calcium fly ash-based geopolymer concrete structural beams and columns. Earlier, Research Reports GC1 and GC2 covered [...]

The Coliseo, Rome, 2nd C. AD (left) The Pantheon, Rome, 2nd C. AD, inside (center) The Pantheon, Rome, 2nd C. AD, the concrete dome (right).
Concrete experts talk today about how to make concrete durable. Many ancient Roman concrete buildings are still in use after more than 2000 years. For these modern concrete [...]

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 [...]

Since 1985, French and English nuclear power stations equipped theirs plants with air filters produced by Sofiltra-Camfil, a French company, in which joints and dust free sealants are made of geopolymer, providing a safety cover up to 500°C. Source: Sofiltra-Camfil patent

Geopolymer insure thermal protection of industrial buildings and facilities up to 1200°C. Hüls [...]