August 2024: A belated welcome to postdoc Zhanzhao Li, graduate students Qiyao He and Chanyeong Park, and undergraduate visiting student Jiabao Zhai.
June 18-21, 2024. We attended the 14th Advances in Cement-Based Materials at Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO. Our postdoc, Dr. Weiqiang Chen, gave a talk, “Ionic transport in C-S-H/C-(N)-A-S-H/N-A-S-H nanopores: a molecular dynamics study“; Our student, Samira Hossain, presented a poster, “Elucidating the reaction kinetics and mechanisms in sodium carbonate activated cements“.
May 14-16, 2024: Dr. Gong gave an invited talk, “A material science-based and data-driven approach towards Sustainable and Durable Infrastructure” at the ACI Foundation’s 2024 Technology Forum, Santa Fe, NM.
May 2024: Our PhD student, Samira Hossain, received 2nd Place in the synthesis category of the Carbon Hub Poster Competition. Well done, Samira!
May 2024: Dr. Jiaqi Li visited our group and gave a departmental seminar “Towards Carbon-Negative Cement“.
January 2024: Our paper “Bayesian design of concrete with amortized Gaussian processes and multi-objective optimization” published in Cement and Concrete Research.Paper link (valid before March 06, 2024)
August 2023: Our paper “Predicting CaO-(MgO)-Al2O3-SiO2 glass reactivity in alkaline environments from force field molecular dynamics simulations” is awarded with theCement and Concrete Research 2021 Le Chatelier Medal. This medal is awarded to the best paper published each calendar year in Cement and Concrete Research.
August 2023: Our paper “Development of physics-based compositional parameters for predicting the reactivity of amorphous aluminosilicates in alkaline environments” is accepted for publication in Cement and Concrete Research. Paper Link.
June 14-16, 2023: Dr. Gong presents three papers, “Density functional modeling of the binding energies between aluminosilicate oligomers and different metal cations”, “Composition-structure-reactivity relationship for aluminosilicate glasses in alkaline environment“, and “Bayesian design of concrete with amortized Gaussian processes and multi-objective optimization”, at the 13th Advances in Cement-based Materials, Colombia University, New York, USA.
June 6-9, 2023: Dr. Gong presents “Composition-structure-reactivity relationship for aluminosilicate glasses in alkaline environment” at the 2023 EMI Conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
April 17, 2023: Our paper “Density functional modeling of the binding energies between aluminosilicate oligomers and different metal cations” is published inFrontier in Materials (invited contribution). PDF.
March 7, 2023: Our paper “Data‐driven prediction of room‐temperature density for multicomponent silicate‐based glasses” is accepted for publication in the Journal of AmericanCeramicSociety (Editor’s Choice). PDF.
November 22, 2022: Dr. Kai Gong joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, starting Jan. 2023 (more). We are seeking talented and motivated PhD students and postdocs to join (see opportunities).
