Geopolymer Institute

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 conference [...]

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

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.

The geopolymer group at University of Illinois, Prof. W. Kriven, participated to the Center for Microanalysis of Materials (CMM) image contest with an image titled: 10. Vitrification of 3SiO2:Al2O3:K2O:10H2O geopolymer gel by heating to 1600°C. Crystallization of the glass systems was dendritic as seen by in micrograph of the top surface. Jonathan Bell, Kriven group. [...]

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) [...]

Geopolymer session at the SAMPE’05 Int. Conference, Long Beach, California scheduled for Monday May 2, 2005.
Find the list of the 7 papers dedicated to high-tech applications
of the geopolymer technology, at:
http://www.sampe.org/SAMPE%2005%20Pre%20Program.pdf

Geopolymer session at the 106th American Ceramic Society National Meeting, Baltimore, USA., April 10-13, 2005.
Prof. W. Kriven from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain is organizing this session within the Ceramic Matrix Composite Symposium.
For list of the 10 papers and abstracts go to
http://ocms.acers.org/abstract.asp?confid=31&sympid=398&sessid=2679

The Geopolymer Group at Rutgers University, USA, lead by Prof. Balaguru and the collaboration of Dr. R. Lyon from F.A.A has published a new paper in the SAMPE Journal, issue September/October 2004. The title is:
Fire Protection of Flammable Materials Utilizing Geopolymer, James Giancaspro and P. Balaguru, Rutgers University and Richard Lyon, FAA Technical Center.
Link to [...]

The link to the web site for research results and publications of the geopolymer group at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, USA, lead by Prof. W. Kriven, is the following:
http://kriven.mse.uiuc.edu/research/research.htm
A paper titled
MICROSTRUCTURE AND MICROCHEMISTRY OF FULLY-REACTED GEOPOLYMERS AND GEOPOLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES
Waltraud M. Kriven, Jonathon L. Bell and Matthew Gordon The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department [...]