Proceedings pro055 : International RILEM Symposium on Photocatalysis, Environment and Construction Materials - TDP 2007

2007 is the closure event of RILEM Technical Committee 194-TDP: ‘Application of Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis to Construction Materials’, and also presented the state-of-the-art on this subject.
There will be four lectures on the State of the Art of Photocatalytic glass and windows, Photocatalytic paints, Photocatalytic ceramics and Photocatalytic cementitious materials.

Besides fundamentals on the photocatalytic process and materials, the application of photocatalytic materials and new advanced developments were presented. Researches from European and Japanese projects were reported.

The symposium deals with a variety of related subjects:
1. Fundamentals of practically applicable TiO2 photocatalysis in construction materials fields;
2. Economic and environmental benefits of construction materials utilizing TiO2 photocatalysis;
3. Development of self-cleaning construction materials with TiO2 photocatalyst;
4. Development of air-cleaning construction materials with TiO2 photocatalyst;
5. Development of antibacterial construction materials with TiO2 photocatalyst;
6. Test methods and the development of standards for characterization of the efficiency of photocatalytic properties;
7. Fullscale trials and case studies;
8. Future development of useful construction materials with TiO2 photocatalyst;
9. Advances in visible photocatalysis.

Target readers: graduate students, material scientists, researchers, engineers, material suppliers, contractors and scientists from research organizations, universities and industries

Contents

Session One: Fundamentals

Session Two: Glass / Testing / Models

Session Three: Cement / Concrete

Session Four: Coatings

Session Five: Ceramics / Stone