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Tailoring 3D-Printed Inorganic Polymers for Enhanced Removal of Emerging Water Pollutants (PRIME)
PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Sources of clean, potable water are rapidly declining worldwide, posing a critical threat to human survival. Addressing this crisis is essential to ensuring a sustainable future for humankind. Emerging pollutants (EPs) from our daily activities such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, per- and polyfluorinated substances, pesticides and d...Turning waste into a resource: Development of green fertilizers through nutrient's recovery from agri-food byproducts and livestock effluent (NUTREC4AGRI)
PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Multifunctional bAuXite Inorganic polyMers for acid mine drainage treatment from PortUguese Mines (MAXIMUM)
CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Mines Wastes Wastewater treatment Circular economyRecycled Waste Materials in Mortars. (RECLAIM)
PartnerIndustry National
The vision of RECLAIM is to demonstrate technologies and strategies to support a new paradigm for refurbishment and re-manufacturing of large industrial equipment in factories, paving the way to a circular economy. Its ultimate goal is to save valuable resources by reusing equipment instead of discarding them. RECLAIM will support legacy industr...Smart Geopolymers (SMART-G)
Local CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
The project aims at the development,production, and demonstration of light weight, fire resistantcomponentsfortheconstructionindustry.Industrialresidueswillbevalorised andviageopolymerizationturnedintofireresistantmaterials.Thewasteenvisionedis 'bauxite residue (or red mud)', bricks and tiles from construction and demolishing waste, and fly ash ...Publications
Reusing spent fluid catalytic cracking catalyst as an adsorbent in wastewater treatment applications
Gameiro, T; Costa, C; Labrincha, J; Novais, RM
2023, MATERIALS TODAY SUSTAINABILITY, 24.
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Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Lightweight Geopolymer Mortar Panels
Alves, C; Pelisser, F; Labrincha, J; Novais, R
2023, MINERALS, 13, 4.
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Catalyst-free CNTs growth on red mud-based alkali activated adsorbents: Innovative route to boost heavy metals adsorption from wastewaters
Carvalheiras, J; Oliveira, IE; Silva, RM; Silva, RF; Novais, RM; Labrincha, JA
2023, MATERIALS LETTERS, 353.
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Ultra-light-weight microwave X-band EMI shielding or RAM material made from sustainable pyrolysed cork templates
Pullar, RC; Novais, RM; Caetano, APF; Krishnakumar, KA; Surendran, KP
2023, NANOSCALE, 15, 39, 15982-15993.
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A state-of-the-art review of recent advances in porous geopolymer: Applications in adsorption of inorganic and organic contaminants in water
Ettahiri, Y; Bouargane, B; Fritah, K; Akhsassi, B; Pérez-Villarejo, L; Aziz, A; Bouna, L; Benlhachemi, A; Novais, RM
2023, CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, 395.
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The impact of granulation on the mineralogy of a modified-BOF slag and the effect on kinetics and compressive strength after alkali activation
Gonzalez, PLL; Novais, RM; Labrincha, J; Blanpain, B; Pontikes, Y
2023, CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES, 140.
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Metakaolin/red mud-derived geopolymer monoliths: Novel bulk-type sorbents for lead removal from wastewaters
Carvalheiras, J; Novais, RM; Labrincha, JA
2023, APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE, 232.
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3D-printed red mud/metakaolin-based geopolymers as water pollutant sorbents of methylene blue
Gonçalves, NPF; Olhero, SM; Labrincha, JA; Novais, RM
2023, JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 383.
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Evaluation of the Nature and Concentration of the Surfactant on the Properties of Red Mud/Metakaolin Porous Geopolymers Foamed with Aluminium
Bilici, S; Carvalheiras, J; Labrincha, JA; Novais, RM
2022, MATERIALS, 15, 21.
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Review of recycling alternatives for paper pulp wastes
Vilarinho, IS; Gameiro, T; Capela, MN; Carvalheiras, J; Caetano, APF; Novo, C; Novais, RM; Seabra, MP; Labrincha, JA
2022, FRONTIERS IN MATERIALS, 9.
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Evaluation of the Reactivity of Red Mud-Based Slags for Geopolymers Production
Gameiro, T; Labrincha, J.; Novais, R.M.
2022.
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Reusing spent fluid catalytic cracking catalyst as adsorbent in wastewater treatment applications
Gameiro, T; Costa, C.; Labrincha, J.; Novais, R.M.
2022.
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Reactivity assessment of red mud-based slags towards geopolymers production
Tânia GAMEIRO, Elise FRANÇOIS, Lukas ARNOUT, Youen DIQUÉLOU, David TOBALDI, Catarina NOVO, Silviana ONISEI, João LABRINCHA, Rui NOVAIS
2022.
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pH control in anaerobic bioreactors using fly-ash based geopolymers as buffer material
T. Gameiro, C. Correia, R. Novais, P. Seabra, J. Labrincha, I. Capela
2019.
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