Viscosity-Enhancing Nanomaterials May Double Service Life of Concrete (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Viscosity-Enhancing Nanomaterials May Double Service Life of Concrete

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The barely visible blue-green area at the top of this X-ray image of concrete with the NIST nanoadditive shows that very few chloride ions (in green) penetrate into the concrete.

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