Advanced Research on Ceramic Construction Materials and Cements
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 3447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: utilization of metallurgical and mining wastes as well as industrial by-products; development of low-carbon-footprint cements and construction ceramics
Interests: applied mineralogy; sustainable construction materials; ceramics and refractories; material characterization; industrial minerals and rocks
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Interests: mineralogy; petrology; geochemistry; archaeometry; X-ray diffraction; scanning electron microscopy; X-ray fluorescence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you contribute to a Special Issue of the open-access journal Buildings dedicated to Advanced Research on Ceramic Construction Materials and Cements.
The increased demands of our rapidly developing way of life lead to the broadening of the construction materials market, among other effects. In fact, construction materials cover a tremendous field of applications and products pertaining to our everyday life and development. On the other hand, the need for energy-saving, cost-effective technologies and environmentally friendly products with sustainable life cycles has rapidly increased. Therefore, the intensive research and development of advanced construction materials and processes need to continue in the future.
Articles in the current Special Issue will be related to eco-friendly processes and technologies for the production of new sustainable and high-quality construction materials. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following materials: bricks, tiles, ceramic compositions of ancient construction materials and their conservation, refractory ceramics for fireplaces, low-carbon concrete and cement, and thermal insulation building materials (e.g., geopolymers, building stones).
We encourage authors to include discussions of aspects related to the microstructural characteristics of raw materials and products as well as their relations with the physicochemical and other specific properties of the final construction materials in their high-impact original research and review papers, since such studies contribute strongly to the development of improved products at large scale.
Prof. Dr. George N. Angelopoulos
Dr. Paraskevi Lampropoulou
Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- advanced construction materials
- ceramics in construction
- ancient construction materials and conservation
- sustainable concrete
- low-carbon cement
- green construction materials
- advanced processes in construction
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