Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries increasingly power more of our world. And yet, even as places like the U.S., Europe, and Australia have abundant lithium ...

Cement has been a vital building block (pun intended) in constructing civilization. However, its manufacturing process has ...

The proposed framework combines machine learning and earthquake engineering to prioritize high-risk buildings, optimizing ...

The Nile, one of the world’s most iconic rivers, is not free from environmental degradation. Image via Wiki Commons. We’ve ...

Denmark approved Europe’s first truly industrial-scale cement carbon capture project, with Aalborg Portland set to capture ...

A single-atom platinum catalyst lights ammonia at 200 °C and keeps it burning steadily at 1,100 °C with low NO x, generating high-grade, carbon-free heat for steel, cement and chemicals. Ammonia is a ...

Cement chemistry centres on the hydration of clinker minerals—primarily tricalcium silicate (C3S), dicalcium silicate (C2S), tricalcium aluminate (C3A) and ferrite phases—when mixed with water. The ...

Hairline cracks in concrete can nearly seal themselves as bacteria build minerals inside them. Wider and diagonal cracks can reduce water leakage by as much as 80%. These discoveries show that the ...

Imagine sidewalks and roads that clear themselves of snow and ice without a single shovel stroke or grain of salt. Engineers at Drexel University have transformed this vision into reality through an ...