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Preface

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**Special Thanks**

**Acknowledgements**

Szklorzová for language corrections.

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The goal of this book, "Strontium Aluminate Cement: Fundamentals, Manufacturing, Hydration, Set‐ ting behaviour and Applications", is to provide the reader with basic overview of this non-traditional binder and to support the researcher`s interest in this topic. Despite the fact, that massive production of strontium aluminate or tri-strontium aluminate cements for industrial application is improbable, the binder shows a few favorable properties. Some of them are described in this book, other must be discov‐

Really promising options are the control of reactivity and rate of heat release during the hydration of strontium aluminate cement, the control of processing of strontium aluminate based MDF, of prepara‐ tion of ceramic foam stabilized by strontium aluminate cement and of dense or thermal insulating re‐ fractory castables with tailored thermal expansion for high temperature applications. Moreover, an immense number of combinations can be made for the preparation of blended and multicomponent cements, influence of substitutions on the properties of strontium aluminate. On behalf of all authors I

The authors of this book are honored to spotlight the following co-workers for their immeasurable con‐ tributions in laboratory preparations and specimen analyses: Eva Bartoníčková (Raman spectroscopy), Jiří Másilko (X-ray diffraction analysis), Radoslav Novotný (calorimetry), Jaromír Wasserbauer (electron microscopy), Jiří Švec (thermal analysis and infrared spectroscopy) and Martin Boháč (rheology) and Lukáš Kalina (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy). I would like to express my appreciation to Halina

This work was supported by the project "Popularization of Brno University of Technology (BUT) R&D results and the support of systematic collaboration with Czech students" No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/35.0004.

**Petr Ptáček**

Czech Republic

University of Technology,
