An inorganic fiber toughened inorganic composite artificial stone panel and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The panel includes a surface layer and a toughened base layer. The surface layer includes the the following components in parts by weight: 40-70 parts of quartz sand, 10-30 parts of quartz powder, 20-45 parts of inorganic active powder, 0.5-4 parts of pigment, 0.3-1 parts of water reducing agent and 3-10 parts of water. The toughened base layer includes the following components in parts by weight: 40-60 parts of inorganic active powder, 45-65 parts of sand, 0.8-1.5 parts of water reducing agent, 6-14 parts of water, 0.4-2 parts of inorganic fiber and 0.8-2.5 parts of toughener.

An organic fiber toughened inorganic composite artificial stone panel and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The panel includes a surface layer, an intermediate organic fiber toughened layer and a toughened base layer. The surface layer includes the following components: 40-70 parts of quartz sand, 20-30 parts of quartz powder, 20-45 parts of inorganic active powder, 0.5-4 parts of pigment, 0.1-3 part of water reducing agent and 3-10 parts of water. The intermediate organic fiber toughened layer includes the following components: 40-60 parts of inorganic active powder, 45-65 parts of sand, 0.8-1.5 parts of water reducing agent, 6-14 parts of water and 4-8 parts of organic fiber. The toughened base layer includes the following components: 30-50 parts of inorganic active powder, 30-55 parts of quartz sand, 15-20 parts of quartz powder, 0.5-1.2 parts of water reducing agent, 4-8 parts of water and 0.8-2.5 parts of toughener.

A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Disclosed are methods to produce composite materials, which contain customized mixes of nano- and/or micro-particles with tailored electromagnetic spectral properties. In some defense-related applications, the use of such materials enables an improved spectral match between different structures, such as vehicles or buildings with the surrounding environment at least in the VIS and NIR wavelength range. This can camouflage the structures, and reduce the detectability thereof by ground-, air- or space-based multi-spectral long-range imaging systems, including aircrafts, drones, and satellites, and thus, generally delay, complicate, or eliminate detection or classification of the camouflaged structures.

A cement composition is disclosed containing: cement; cellulose nanofibers; and water, wherein a mass ratio of the water to cement is 0.4 or less. The cement is preferably Portland cement. It is preferred that the Portland cement is high-early-strength Portland cement, and that a mass ratio of fine aggregate to the high-early-strength Portland cement is 2.0 or less. A unit amount of cellulose nanofibers in the cement composition can be 0.1 kg/m.sup.3 to 15 kg/m.sup.3 Furthermore, a hardened body of the cement composition is disclosed, wherein a ratio of a splitting tensile strength of the hardened body at a material age of 91 days obtained by curing in air, to the splitting tensile strength of the hardened body at the material age if 91 days obtained by curing in water is 0.90 or more and 1.10 or less, the splitting tensile strength being measured in accordance with JIS-A-1113 (2006).

In a method of producing nanoconcrete according the bottom-up approach of nano technology with the High-Energy Mixing of composition including cement, water, sand, additives and superplasticizers, the mixing is performed with flow of mixture characterized by Reynolds number and Power number in the range of 20-800 and 0.1-4.0 respectively with installation a disk horizontally into mixing assembly on the top layer of activated mixture coaxially with vertical axis of assembly and with the axis of impeller rotation on the adjustable level to avoid destroying created gel as a result of interruptions of process, to increase laminarity of the mixture flow, energy absorption by the mixture, and shear stress for creation additional quantity of the nanostructured Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H) gel necessary for making nanoconcrete.

A method for the preparation of concretes with improved wear resistance. The method involves the use of colloidal silica, which is added to a concrete mixture after mixing, in conjunction with a concrete cutter, which is added to the concrete mixture after the addition of the colloidal silica.

The present invention is the production method of ready injection material which aims to develop natural hydraulic lime in nano size by using a single raw material.

A method for creating multifunctional cementitious composites that provide load-bearing and self-sensing properties. The method involves dispersing conductive nanomaterials (e.g., multi-walled carbon nanotubes) into a polymer (e.g., latex) material from which a thin film is created and deposited (e.g., sprayed) onto aggregates, which after drying, can be incorporated with cementitious materials and desired liquids and cast, along with sufficient number of electrodes, into a form for curing. After curing, the resultant structure can be electrically tested through the electrodes, for structural characteristics, including determination of damage severity and location using back-calculation utilizing electrical resistance tomography (ERT), or electrical impedance tomography (EIT), to generate a spatial resistivity map (distribution).

The present disclosure provides a cementitious material and production method thereof. The method comprises steps of: (1) dry desulfurization and denitrification of a flue gas with a flue gas absorbent to give a by-product, wherein the flue gas absorbent comprises 10-23 parts by weight of a nano-sized metal oxide, 10-23 parts by weight of a micro-sized metal oxide, and 40-60 parts by weight of magnesium oxide, the nano-sized metal oxide being selected from one or more of the group consisting of SiO2, CaO, Fe2O3, Al2O3, CuO, V2O5 and MnO2, and the micro-sized metal oxide being selected from one or more of the group consisting of SiO2, CaO, Fe2O3, Al2O3, CuO, V2O5 and MnO2; and (2) uniformly mixing the by-product with magnesium oxide, an industrial solid waste and an additive to give the cementitious material.