Nanocem's partner projects

Each of the academic partners contributes to the network one of its own, externally funded, research projects and shares the principal results with the other members of the network:

• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  Effect of minor elements  such as Zn on the hydration of Alite and cement

• Université de Bourgogne, France

  Study of nucleation-growth processes of ettringite. Influence on the rheology of concentrated suspensions

• University of Aberdeen, UK

  Process models for kiln pyroprocessing

• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain

  Sustainability of photocatalytic technologies on urban pavements: From laboratory tests to in field compliance criteria / LIFE -PHOTOSCALING

• University of Leeds, UK

  Performance of aged materials under extreme loading

• Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia

  Influence of temperature on the hydration of belite-calcium sulfoaluminate cements

• Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs und Forschunganstalt, Switzerland

  Al uptake in C-S-H and the influence of alkali: experimental determination and thermodynamic modeling

• University of Surrey, UK

  Separate sorption space-temporal structure changes by ¹H NMR  and Measure water transport in hydrate agglomerates by MRI

• Technical University of Denmark

  Mass transport in concrete with new CO₂ reduced cements

• Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

  Binding of moisture in fly ash blended Portland cement paste and mortar: influence of replacement level and curing temperature

• University of Aarhus, Denmark

  Structural Investigations of the C-S-H Phase in Hydrated Portland Cements by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy.

• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

  Use of coal mining wastes as supplementary cementitious materials.

• Danish Technological Institute, Denmark

  Characterization and comparison of in-situ exposed and in-lab exposed concrete

• Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  Micro Bending tests

• Imperial College London, UK

  Influence of Microstructure on the Transport Properties of Concrete.

• Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France

  Interaction between delayed strains and microcracking in cementitious materials

• Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux, France

  Platform of physical models of multiphase/multispecies transport within cementitious materials subjected to wetting-drying cycles – Combination of pre-existing models and extension within a probabilistic framework

• Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Bauchemie, Germany

  Tracking Cement Hydration via Piezoresistivity Measurements

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

  MIKS – Microproportioning with crushed sand

• Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland

  Corrosion-induced cracking of the concrete cover

• Technische Universität Wien, Austria

  Multiscale Modeling of Cementitious Materials Subjected to Temperature Changes: Thermal Expansion and Creep

• Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

  Growth and porosity of C-S-H phases – development of the ‘Sheet Growth Model’ and coupling with experimental data (¹H NMR, SEM)

• University of Sheffield

  RENACEM: Response to CO2 exposure of concrete with natural supplementary cementitious materials

• SIMaP

  Thermodynamic data for raw mix & transitory phases in cement clinker production