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Permalink Reply by GOPI KANTA GHOSH on August 22, 2010 at 8:35am

Great...must be tried selectively...

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Permalink Reply by Asher Cron on December 2, 2010 at 5:02am

Asphalt as is used for payvment of roads is not an "emulsion". It is a shapeless, stucturless, gummy mixture of a polydisperse molecule named "aspahtene" which is mixed with petroleum resins, heavy hydrocarbons and adsorned to it a bunch of metals and oxides and mixed with sand. Petroleum refiners call it "resid" or "heavy end". I like to receive more technical information about the work of MAGIC Y before I can make any comment about it. For scientific information about asphalt components (aspahltenes, resins, paraffin wax and diamondoids) I suggest you visit Prof. GA Mansoori's comprehensive website at the Univ. of Illinois Chicago which is www.uic.edu/~mansoori/HOD_html/

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Permalink Reply by Jan Buk on April 28, 2011 at 9:06am

Hello Masoud,

 

I though you may be interested in testing inorganic SiO2 nanofibers for improving mechanical proeprties of asphalt.We have been testing SiO2 nanofibers in geopolymers and we reached very godd improvement of its mechanical properties (doubled).

http://www.kertaknanotechnology.com/public/img/data%20sheets/sio2_2...

We are manufacturer of this material and currently we test it in many applications. I found your blog and though you may be interested in testing and cooperation.

Please let me know

jan Buk   buk@kertaknanotechnology.com

 

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Permalink Reply by Phil Kaufman on May 27, 2011 at 3:06pm

We have done some work adding our stacked-cup carbon nanotubes to cement.  It greatly improves freeze/thaw and mechanical properties.  Haven't done any testing in asphalt but I imagine the results would be similar.   

Best,  

Phil 

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