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  • 2018 Jun 18

    Cement and Concrete Research

    Cement and concrete research

    The aim of Cement and Concrete Research is to publish the best research on cement, cement composites, concrete and other allied materials that incorporate cement.

    In doing so, the journal will present: the results of research on the properties and performance of cement and concrete; novel experimental techniques; the latest analytical and modelling methods; the examination and the diagnosis of rea...

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  • 2018 Feb 22

    Urban heat island effects depend on a city’s layout

    MIT Island

    The way streets and buildings are arranged makes a big difference in how heat builds up, study shows.

    The arrangement of a city’s streets and buildings plays a crucial role in the local urban heat island effect, which causes cities to be hotter than their surroundings, researchers have found. The new finding could provide city planners and officials with new ways to influence those effects. Some cities, su...

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  • 2017 Jan 23 to 2017 Jan 27

    5th Marseille Winter School on Multi-Scale Porous Materials 2017

    WS-2017

    January 23-27 2017, Derrien theater, Polytech-AMU,Aix-Marseille University, Campus de Luminy, 13288 Marseille

    Organized under the auspices of the LabEx ICoME2/CNRS/A*Midex, M2UN-GdR-i/CNRS and Polytech-AMU
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    (Transmission) Electron Microscopy for Multi-Scale Porous Materials - A. BARONNET Part 1...

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  • 2016 Sep 16

    MIT and French research institutions collaborate on climate-conscious materials

    MSE2 initiative

    MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment research partnership could reduce the carbon footprint of materials such as concrete.

    MIT President L. Rafael Reif joined a high-level delegation of French officials at MIT on Friday to sign an agreement extending the research partnership behind MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Envi...

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  • 2016 Jul 21

    Designing climate-friendly concrete, from the nanoscale up

    Concrete

    New understanding of concrete’s properties could increase lifetime of the building material, decrease emissions.

    An MIT-led team has defined the nanoscale forces that control how particles pack together during the formation of cement “paste,” the material that holds together concrete and causes that ubiquitous construction material to be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. By controlling those forces, the re...

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