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Article of the SICon Research Group is published in the journal “Construction and Building Materials”

The article entitled: “Eco-efficient steel slag concretes: an alternative to achieve circular economy” was published in volume 15 of the IBRACON Structures and Materials Journal, 2022.

The authors of the article are: Gustavo Henrique Nalon, José Carlos Lopes Ribeiro, Eduardo Nery Duarte de Araújo, Leonardo Gonçalves Pedroti, José Maria Franco de Carvalho, Rodrigo Felipe Santos, Diôgo Silva de Oliveira. The group is composed of researchers from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV).

This paper reports a pioneering investigation of the influence of post-fire curing on residual mechanical properties and microstructure of cement mortars containing different concentrations of carbon-black nanoparticles (CBN) or multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT).. The full abstract and other information about the paper can be found in the link below:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.12518

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