Nanotechnology: Advantages and drawbacks in the field of construction and building materials

By F. Pacheco-Torgal, Said Jalali. 2011

497 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Pollution

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/41e0bfebbb230ccae97e6633ad8f1c66f88efade

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Shama Parveen
2. Sohel Rana
3. Raul Fangueiro
4. S. Pillai
5. Faiz Shaikh

In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. I. Low
2. A. Hakamy
3. Faiz Shaikh
4. Shama Parveen
5. Sohel Rana
6. Raul Fangueiro
7. Navid Ranjbar
8. Mingzhong Zhang

In Pollution

1. Faiz Shaikh

Citations in the corpus

• TiO2-based nanocoatings for preserving architectural stone surfaces: An overview (2015, background): “fibre-reinforced composites; sterilizing products for hospital and medical applications; self-cleaning glasses; wear-resistant, anticorrosive nanostructured coatings), including the construction sector [27,28].”
• Characteristics of blended cements containing nano-silica (2013, background): “Extremely fine size of nanoparticles (nPs) can greatly affect the hydration kinetics of cement, yielding favorable characteristics [19–25].”
• Context, drivers, and future potential for wood-frame multi-story construction in Europe (2015, background): “That is, rather than functional properties, the improvements on the bulk materials focus on the lightness, strength, and durability (Arora et al., 2014;Hanus andHarris, 2013; Pacheco-Torgal and Jalali, 2011; Sanchez and Sobolev, 2010; Bartos, 2009).”
• Cu-Doped TiO2: Visible Light Assisted Photocatalytic Antimicrobial Activity (2018, background): “Several studies in the past few decades have looked at the alteration of building materials and paints to overcome the challenges of indoor microbial contamination [7,8].”