John L. Provis

Research interests

Publications

• Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0093-3

• Recent progress in low-carbon binders

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2019.05.009

• Alkali-activated materials

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2017.02.009

• Magnesia-Based Cements: A Journey of 150 Years, and Cements for the Future?

  Chemical Reviews · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00463

• Mechanical, thermal insulation, thermal resistance and acoustic absorption properties of geopolymer foam concrete

  Cement and Concrete Composites · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2015.03.013

• Advances in understanding alkali-activated materials

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2015.04.013

• Geopolymers and Related Alkali-Activated Materials

  Annual Review of Materials Research · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-070813-113515

• Geopolymer foam concrete: An emerging material for sustainable construction

  Construction and Building Materials · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.01.081

• Generalized Structural Description of Calcium–Sodium Aluminosilicate Hydrate Gels: The Cross-Linked Substituted Tobermorite Model

  Langmuir · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1021/la4000473

• Modification of phase evolution in alkali-activated blast furnace slag by the incorporation of fly ash

  Cement and Concrete Composites · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2013.09.006

• Gel nanostructure in alkali-activated binders based on slag and fly ash, and effects of accelerated carbonation

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2013.06.007

• Geopolymers and other alkali activated materials: why, how, and what?

  Materials and Structures · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-013-0211-5

• Alkali Activated Materials

  RILEM state-of-the-art reports · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7672-2

• Technical and commercial progress in the adoption of geopolymer cement

  Minerals Engineering · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2011.09.009

• Advances in alternative cementitious binders

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2010.11.012

• Evolution of binder structure in sodium silicate-activated slag-metakaolin blends

  Cement and Concrete Composites · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2010.09.004

• Geopolymers : structure, processing, properties and industrial applications

  Journal · 2009

• Geopolymers

  Woodhead Publishing Limited eBooks · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1533/9781845696382

• Designing Precursors for Geopolymer Cements

  Journal of the American Ceramic Society · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2008.02787.x

• Effect of calcium silicate sources on geopolymerisation

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2007.11.001

• The role of inorganic polymer technology in the development of ‘green concrete’

  Cement and Concrete Research · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2007.08.018

• Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art

  Journal of Materials Science · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-0637-z

• Reaction mechanisms in the geopolymeric conversion of inorganic waste to useful products

  Journal of Hazardous Materials · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.02.044

• Do Geopolymers Actually Contain Nanocrystalline Zeolites? A Reexamination of Existing Results

  Chemistry of Materials · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cm050230i

• Understanding the relationship between geopolymer composition, microstructure and mechanical properties

  Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.06.060

Current projects

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