Masonry remediation and protection by aqueous silane/siloxane macroemulsions incorporating colloidal titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticulates: Mechanisms, performance and benefits

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 93-100

  MacMullen, James ^a   Radulovic, Jovana ^a   Zhang, Zhongyi ^a   Dhakal, Hom Nath ^a   Daniels, Lawrence ^a   Elford, Joseph ^a   Leost, Marc Antoine ^a   Bennett, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facade; Nanoparticulates; Silane; Siloxane; Stability; Titanium dioxide; Water repellent; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL TITANIUM DIOXIDE; EMULSION PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; NANOPARTICULATES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SILOXANE; SMALL CONCENTRATION; WATER REPELLENTS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EMULSIONS; FACADES; OXIDES; POLLUTION; SILANES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84883756802     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.08.019     Document Type: Article

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