Shaping the fate of low-carbon cement science

Background:

The conference aims to bring together experts from the cement chemistry, physics, materials science and civil engineering domains to discuss the outstanding fundamental scientific challenges limiting an effective, widespread deployment of low-carbon cement and concrete.

The conference will bridge fundamental science with practical, application-oriented outstanding challenges of low-carbon cement and concrete.

The ultimate goal is to provide a roadmap of critical scientific work still required to fulfil the current roadmap towards a net-zero concrete industry by 2050.

Conference topics:
1) Low-carbon cement production
(clinkerization, thermodynamics of clinker formation, new chemistries for clinker production, firing technology, grinding technology, carbon capture, utilization and storage).

2) Alternative binders

3) Low-carbon cement hydration
(mechanisms, new experimental approaches, insights, thermodynamic model ling, opportunities and limitations of experimental techniques available).

4) Low-carbon cements structuration
(rheology, thixotropy of multiphase cements, the flow loss phenomena, interaction of low carbon cements and admixtures).

5) Low carbon cement transport phenomena and durability
(ion transport, water transport in low carbon cement microstructure).

6) Low carbon cements modelling
 (atomistic modelling of hydration products in low carbon cements, microstructural modelling of correlation with experiments).

Important dates:

Abstract submission 1 December 2024

Notification of acceptance of abstracts (and assignment of oral/poster) 3 January 2025

Early bird Registration before 31 January 2025

Registration (from 1 February 2025)

Full-length paper submission 1 March 2025

Review of the full papers 1 May 2025

Final acceptance of full papers 1 June 2025

Conference Proceedings by the conference date 29 June 2025