Use of recycled concrete aggregates from precast block for the production of new building blocks: An industrial scale study

Z Zengfeng, L Courard, S Groslambert, T Jehin… - Resources …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Concrete building blocks are a commodity product and its profit margin is low (… raw
materials used to manufacture blocks could be virgin aggregate, lightweight or recycled materials

Biopolymer nanoscale assemblies as building blocks for new materials: A review

Y Pei, L Wang, K Tang… - … Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… In addition, oligomers and monomers from biopolymers can be obtained by pyrolysis and
hydrolysis and utilized as raw materials or as a supply of clean energy. [ 2 ] Biopolymers can …

[HTML][HTML] Biomaterials from the sea: Future building blocks for biomedical applications

M Wan, W Qin, C Lei, Q Li, M Meng, M Fang, W Song… - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine resources have tremendous potential for developing high-value biomaterials. The
last decade has seen an increasing number of biomaterials that originate from marine …

Understanding sustainability–the case of building blocks in Tanzania and Uganda

R Isaksson, A Buregyeya - The TQM journal, 2024 - emerald.com
block factories are not necessarily located at the sources of raw materials but deliver the
raw materials at a cost similar to that of delivering the same materials to construction sites. …

Current perspective of sustainable surfactants based on renewable building blocks

A Bhadani, A Kafle, T Ogura, M Akamatsu… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
… or indirectly derived/developed from renewable building blocks can be broadly termed as
‘… proportion of petroleum-based raw materials with sustainably sourced renewable building

Challenges and opportunities of the European critical raw materials act

A Hool, C Helbig, G Wierink - Mineral Economics, 2024 - Springer
raw material (SRM) and critical raw material in annexes I and II, whereby SRMs are raw
materials that “… 3), and CRMs are these strategic raw materials together with all raw materials that …

Bio-based electrospun nanofiber as building blocks for a novel eco-friendly air filtration membrane: A review

Y Deng, T Lu, J Cui, SK Samal, R Xiong… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Although synthetic biodegradable materials can … and raw material supply, but also lead to
energy loss. On the contrary, natural polymer materials are a sort of biodegradable materials

Natural additives and biopolymers for raw earth construction stabilization–a review

AE Losini, AC Grillet, M Bellotto, M Woloszyn… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
… Priority was given to studies with detailed raw material description and accurate characterization
of the final element of construction. Available information on earth components and on …

Sustainable development of human society in terms of natural depleting resources preservation using natural renewable raw materials in a novel ecological material …

CM Grădinaru, R Muntean, AA Șerbănoiu, V Ciocan… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The aim of this research was to make a material with alternative applicability in building
elements where ordinary concrete would be less efficient. This ecological alternative complies …

An all-natural bioinspired structural material for plastic replacement

QF Guan, HB Yang, ZM Han, ZC Ling, SH Yu - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
… of 2D and 1D building blocks, the 2D building blocks (bricks) can … raw materials (eg, TiO 2
-mica, Fe 2 O 3 -mica), we can fabricate a variety of all-natural bioinspired structural materials