Energy is ability or capacity to do work. The renewable energy sources are non-
conventional and environmental friendly in nature. The renewable energy technology is a …

Water penetration can cause severe performance deterioration and even failure of concrete
constructions through various degradation mechanisms, such as chemical erosion, dry-wet …

This is the first book on Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC), an advanced concrete
material attracting world-wide attention in both the academic community and in industry. The …

Coating materials serve the purposes to protect, enhance and/or confer additional
functionalities and properties to the underlying object surface or bulk materials. In recent …

To explore the spatial variation of source-specific ecological risks and identify critical
sources of heavy metals in road dust, 36 road dust samples collected in Bei**g in March …

This review paper discussed on the nano materials in concrete. Nowadays, the application
of nano materials has received numerous attentions to enhance the conventional concrete …

The efficient and cost-effective direct conversion of solar energy to chemical energy and
solar fuels has been considered as one of the most perspective strategies to solve the …

TiO2-based photocatalytic building materials can keep the building surface clean, and have
decontamination, antibacterial effects and so on, which greatly reduces the maintenance …

Self-cleaning materials have gained considerable attention for both their unique properties
and practical applications in energy and environmental areas. Recent examples of many …

This study integrates i-Tree Eco model in order to estimate air pollution removal by urban
trees in Strasbourg city, France. Applied for the first time in a French city, the model shows …