T.D. Any other aspect that you would like to address for the scientific
reader community, something that may not have been covered in my
questionnaire?
Dr. Davidovits
My
friend
Dr.
Waltraud Kriven from
Illinois
University
once
proclaimed:
“Geopolymers, more
than just cement”.
Indeed, when, in 1979,
I introduced the geopolymer concept and
the related terminology, I had no idea
about cement. But in
the mind of cement
scientists, geopolymer
is only cement and
therefore they try to
understand its material properties with their
Portland cement background, replacing calcium (Ca) with sodium (Na), which is not
appropriate. To better
Dr. Tania Dey posed with her lab students during
Instron compressive strength measurement of
geopolymer moulds
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