Concrete: An eco material that needs to be improved

By Robert J. Flatt, Nicolas Roussel, Chris Cheeseman. 2012

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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One-part alkali-activated materials : a review (2018, background): “Consequently, the development of alternative low‐carbon binders is recognized as one option to reduce CO2 emissions [5,6].”
Concrete material science: Past, present, and future innovations (2018, background): “In 2012, Robert Flatt, Nicolas Roussel and Christopher Cheeseman published a paper entitled “Concrete: An eco-material that needs to be improved” [193].”
Advances in alkali-activation of clay minerals (2020, background): “There is debate over whether these are more efficiently used as high volume replacement supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in blended Portland cement systems, rather than as precursors in AAMs [26,27].”
The mechanism of hydration of MgO-hydromagnesite blends (2018, background): “77 78 A significant advance in developing low-carbon hydraulic cements based on MgO was made in 2009, 79 when the addition of hydrated magnesium carbonates was found to significantly change the hydration 80 of MgO, resulting in pastes that rapidly set and developed significant strength [14-16].”
Hydration mechanisms of two polymorphs of synthetic ye'elimite (2014, background): “97 tons of CO2 are 5 released into the atmosphere, with the cement industry contributing around 6% of all anthropogenic 6 CO2 emissions translating into approximately 4% of the planet’s global warming[2].”
Recent update on the environmental impact of geopolymers (2016, background): “Furthermore, due to a better understanding of packing optimization [4, 5] as well as the development of superplasticizers, reduction of cement content at the concrete scale while achieving similar performance can now be done [6].”
The future of construction materials research and the seventh UN Millennium Development Goal: A few insights (2013, neutral): “1 km [31].”
Strength and drying shrinkage of reactive MgO modified alkali-activated slag paste (2014, neutral): “Although developed decades ago, the last decade or so has seen significant increase in research efforts into alkali activated binders, and in particularly alkali activated slags (AAS) [2], as viable and sustainable alternatives to PC due to the significantly lower costs, energy and CO2 emissions [3,”