TY  - CHAP
AU  - Sékou Traoré
AU  - A. Diarra
AU  - O. Kourouma
AU  - D.L. Traoré
ED  - Mazen Alshaaer
ED  - Han-Yong Jeon
Y1  - 2019-05-10
PY  - 2019
T1  - Survey of Bauxite Resources, Alumina Industry and the Prospects of the Production of Geopolymer Composites from the Resulting by-product
N2  - Geopolymers are applied to material classes that are chemically transformed from low crystallinity aluminusilicates to three-dimensional inorganic polymers (tectosilicates). The resulting material has properties similar to natural minerals, so it is called artificial rock. However, these materials exhibit a chemical composition and mineralogical structure similar to feldspar, feldspathoidal, and zeolites consisting of a polymeric Si–O– Al framework, with a microcrystalline or an amorphous structure. Although geopolymers have attractive engineering and environmental characteristics, there are some challenges in commercializing these materials. In this book, these challenges will be addressed along with introducing the functional geopolymers as an effective approach to commercializing these materials and making them economically feasible.
BT  - Geopolymers and Other Geosynthetics
SP  - Ch. 6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82413
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.82413
SN  - 978-1-78985-539-5
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-05-10
ER  -