Green Concrete

Research

Green Concrete

For the development of more sustainable production processes and materials for cement composites

http://www.greenconcretelab.com

RESEARCHERS

IN THE LTC

PHD STUDENTS

develop their thesis

PUBLICATIONS

INDEXED PUBLICATIONS

CO PUBLICATIONS

OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

JOINT RESEARCH

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

CO-SUPERVISED PHD

UBX - UPV/EHU

patents

UBX - UPV/EHU

POST DOC

IN PROJECTS

Description

Cement composites are the most widely used materials in the world. They have been around since Roman times, meaning that materials and techniques have been improved along centuries almost to perfection. However, new variables have come into play on the last decades as a consequence of the environmental awareness. For the first time in history parameters like the carbon footprint, the efficient use of resources and energy consumption have become almost as important when designing a structure as aesthetics or technical requirements. In addition, materials’ performance demand of modern mega-structures has surpassed all expectations. As a consequence, materials scientists face now the outbreak of new challenges in all aspects of cement composites’ production and performance, from the clinkerization process itself, to durability issues or the development of novel additions/additives/admixtures and recycling strategies. It is the objective of this LTC GREEN CONCRETE to respond to such challenges and contribute, therefore, to the development of society.
The LTC GREEN CONCRETE LAB will address such challenges from a materials science approach combining different scientific/technological fields: synthesis, characterization, processing and computational simulation

Coordinators

CSIC

Jorge Sánchez DOLADO

Head of the Ceramic and Cementitious Materials Group, Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU
Dr. Jorge Sánchez Dolado is a scientist at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and associated to the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)

University of Bordeaux

Cyril AYMONIER

CNRS Senior Researcher, Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux, CNRS, University of Bordeaux.

Research lines

Ceramic and Cement-based materials group (C2M) ( https://c2mgroup.org )

Multi-scale modelling
Alternative clinkerization techmologies (SCF, MWs…)
Concrete for Energy Storage
Photonic concrete

Supercritical Fluids Group

Supercritical fluids
Chemistry in supercritical fluids
Near- and supercritical solvo-hydrothermal synthesis / Continuous, sustainable and scalable processes
Advanced materials
Recycling of materials
Material efficiency

Building and Bio-based Products

Ecocements and related products
Multifunctional cement based materials
Nano-enabled materials
Multi-scale modelling
Recycling of inorganic wastes/byproducts

Structural, dynamic and optical properties of materials

Atomistic simulations of cement-based materials
Atomistic simulations of novel electrolites for solid state bateries
Design of novel Topological insulators and termoelectric materials
Liquid crystals: structure, ferroelectricity and optical properties

Groupe Analyse du Cycle de Vie et Chimie Durable (CyVi)

Applying and developing methodologies for assessing the environmental impacts and use of natural resource with industrial ecological tools, in particular life cycle asses

Electronic Excitations in Surfaces and Nanostructures

Polymerization Processes Group

Polymer reaction engineering aspects of polymerization in dispersed media (e.g., kinetics, modeling, high solids content formulations), waterborne polymer/inorganic hybrid nanocomposites for anticorrosion coatings, polymerization of water soluble monomers

Polymers and Soft Matter Group

The experimental works revolve around the dynamic of water in the nanoconfined structure of cementitious materials and the use of nano-particles to improve the performance of concrete in marine environments

Civil and Environmental Engineering

The study and development of engineered wood products (EWP), the deployment of sensors to perform in-situ monitoring in the field, and is helping decision making related to the management of technical and public heritage