**9. Advanced applications**

Having all the properties required for traditional applications of geopolymers, the advanced geopolymers also offer additional commercial applications due to their eco-friendlier and user-friendlier approach. The advanced geopolymerization process via solid-state route enables the tailoring of the properties of end products as per requirement. Some of the important applications of advanced geopolymers are given below:


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**Author details**

Sudhir Sitaram Amritphale\*, Pooja Bhardwaj and Rainy Gupta

Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

\*Address all correspondence to: ssamritphale@hotmail.com

provided the original work is properly cited.

Materials for Radiation Shielding and Cement Free Concrete Division, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Advanced Materials and Processes

© 2019 The Author(s). Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,

*Advanced Geopolymerization Technology DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87250* *Advanced Geopolymerization Technology DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87250*

*Geopolymers and Other Geosynthetics*

use for on-site application.

struction materials.

are given below:

**9. Advanced applications**

rural development

damaged structures

mild steel.

dealing with it. The most important advantage of advanced geopolymerization is that it obviates the use of handling of highly alkaline solution as the advanced process involves reactions in dry state and only water is added to the geopolymeric precursor mixture which makes it a non-hazardous process. Unlike conventional geopolymerization, the geopolymeric precursor prepared by advanced process can be considered as ready-to-use premixture just like OPC which only requires addition of known amount of water to form cementitious material, thus facilitating its

Moreover, advance geopolymerization is advantageous in terms of its application spectrum. The advanced geopolymeric precursor material is suited not only for application as cementitious material but also best suited for prefabricated or pre-engineered geopolymeric end products which enhance its commercialization. Tailoring of properties can be performed at the precursor stage by altering basic formulations before the stage of mechanochemical grinding. In other words, to get the desired properties from geopolymeric end product, advanced geopolymerization technology allows the user to tailor properties of the geopolymeric end product which is not possible in the case of conventional geopolymerization. Also advanced geopolymers are capable to address the concerns related to high cost, transportation, and long-term storage that are important challenges for building and con-

Having all the properties required for traditional applications of geopolymers, the advanced geopolymers also offer additional commercial applications due to their eco-friendlier and user-friendlier approach. The advanced geopolymerization process via solid-state route enables the tailoring of the properties of end products as per requirement. Some of the important applications of advanced geopolymers

1.Advanced ready-to-use geopolymeric cement just like OPC for cementitious functions by adding water alone instead of hazardous alkaline solution

2.Advanced household cement-free green cements for manufacture of geopolymeric construction products like tiles, panels, and paver blocks addressing

3.Advanced corrosion protection material to provide corrosion protection to

4.Advanced geopolymeric instant repairing material to reconstruct or repair

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