A method of preparing a cement hydration product nano-thin film, the method including: (1) preparing a cement hydration product; (2) preparing a water sacrificial layer film; (3) depositing the cement hydration product obtained in (1) on the surface of the water sacrificial layer film obtained in (2) to obtain a cement hydration product film; and (4) immersing the cement hydration product film in a saturated aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide to dissolve the water sacrificial layer film to obtain a nano-thin film of the cement hydration product.

A method of preparing a cement hydration product nano-thin film, the method including: (1) preparing a cement hydration product; (2) preparing a water sacrificial layer film; (3) depositing the cement hydration product obtained in (1) on the surface of the water sacrificial layer film obtained in (2) to obtain a cement hydration product film; and (4) immersing the cement hydration product film in a saturated aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide to dissolve the water sacrificial layer film to obtain a nano-thin film of the cement hydration product.

A construction material, a hydrophobic, optionally multi-cellular, inorganic particulate material for use in the construction material, for example, to improve the crush strength and/or stability of the construction material, a method of making the construction material, constructions comprising the construction material, and a method of improving the stability of a construction material.

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.

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 (CSH) gel necessary for making nanoconcrete.

A construction material, a hydrophobic, optionally multi-cellular, inorganic particulate material for use in the construction material, for example, to improve the crush strength and/or stability of the construction material, a method of making the construction material, constructions comprising the construction material, and a method of improving the stability of a construction material.

Provided is a high-strength self-healing capsule and a supporting production process thereof, belongs to the field of self-healing of concrete, comprising: healing agent and maltose; further comprising: mixing cement, silica fume and expansive materials evenly to obtain healing agent powder; mixing the healing agent powder with maltose to obtain healing agent composite powder; pre-pressing the healing agent composite powder to form fine granules; sieving the fine granules made from the pre-pressing, and granulating to obtain capsule core granules; and spraying polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solution to the capsule core granules, while blowing hot air to remove moisture on the surface of the capsule core granules, for the PVA solution to form a film on the surface of the capsule core granules, drying, and then obtaining. On the basis of the process of the present invention, according to the engineering service environment and use requirements of the cement-based materials, suitable healing agent raw materials can be selected and combined to efficiently produce capsules, so that they can play a targeted role in self-healing.

A method for producing a supplementary cementitious material from concrete waste and similar materials includes the steps of i) providing a starting material comprising hydrated cement and aggregate comprising silicate and/or alumino-silicate, ii) hydrothermal treatment of the starting material provided in step i) to obtain a hydrothermally activated material, and iii) carbonation of the hydrothermally activated material of step ii) to provide the supplementary cementitious material, as well as supplementary cementitious material obtainable by the method, hydraulic binder comprising the supplementary cementitious material and use of the supplementary cementitious material and of the hydraulic binder for making hydraulic building materials.

The present invention discloses a multifunctional thin bituminous layer, intended to be used as a layer with high mechanical performance in an infrastructural element, for example a road, based on a bituminous mixture containing bitumen, an additive composition, and inorganic inert materials. The additive composition includes at least one polyolefin plastic material and optionally further additives. The present invention also refers to an infrastructural element including the above-mentioned multifunctional thin bituminous layer, as well as a process for producing the multifunctional thin bituminous layer and its application to said infrastructural element.

The present invention relates to a substrate for a thin film photovoltaic module, characterized in that it is a cementitious product with average surface roughness Ra not higher than 500 nm. The invention also relates to the cementitious product as such, the thin film photovoltaic module comprising it, and a method of moulding both of them.