Progressive Cement and Glass-Based Composites and Structures

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue ‘Progressive Cement and Glass-Based Composites and Structures‘ aims at the preparation and characterization of high-performance composites that should find use in specific engineering applications especially in the building industry. Today, a number of new progressive composite materials meeting specific rising requirements on their functionality, performance, and durability at specific climate conditions are under development, taking into account their sustainability, eco-efficiency, and production costs. As design, development, and testing of these high-performance materials represent a highly actual issue for materials engineers and chemists, we believe this newly announced Special Issue represents a great possibility for presentation and publication of very recent results and findings received in this field of progressive cement and glass-based composite materials and structures. 

The Special Issue will include synthesis and characterization of various composites based on various types of cement or glass. Specific attention will be given to materials’ durability and service life. Hence, proposed topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Environmentally friendly composites for building industry;
• Graphene-cement composites;
• Graphene oxide–cement composites;
• CNT–cement composites;
• Mechanical and thermal properties of composites;
• Magnesium–oxychloride composites;
• Development of innovative cement-based composites with various admixtures;
• Development of innovative glass-based composites with polymer admixtures and additives;
• New composites for repairs and renewal;
• Multilayered construction composites;
• Full scale testing of composite-based structures.

We believe that this topic is very real and interesting, and hence, we invite you to submit your contributions to this Special Issue with the best of your research activities.

Assoc. Prof. Ondřej Jankovský
Prof. Milena Pavlíková
Guest Editors

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