Calcium Silicate Spheres (image)

Rice University

Caption

Calcium silicate spheres synthesized at Rice University and packed into a pellet hold together under compression. The spheres are building blocks that can be made at low cost and promise to mitigate the energy-intensive techniques now used to make cement, the most common binder in concrete.

Credit

Multiscale Materials Laboratory/Rice University

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