The Centre for Nanomaterials Applications in Construction

The work “Doctor, I think that my house has osteoporosis” of Juan J. Gaitero from NANOC was the winner of the 2009 edition of the Thesis Prize organised by Elhuyar Foundation. In opinion of The Judging Panel, such work explained in a very entertaining manner the main aspects of cement chemistry and its degradation by calcium leaching. They valued particularly the easy language used by the author and the comparison between calcium leaching and osteoporosis.

The Thesis Prize awards the best thesis resume, having to be written in an attractive and communicative manner with an extension of less than 3000 characters. A total of 62 researchers from 6 different universities took part in this year’s competition. The Judging Panel stressed the high quality of most works, being possible read all of them on the website of Basque Research in the Thesis Prize section.

The 1st CODICE Workshop on Multi-scale Modelling and Experiments for cementitious materials

will  be held in Bergamo (Italy) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamo) from he 28th to the 30th of September,2009.

The brochure, the programme and other useful information can be downloaded from www.codice-project.eu

We have finally launched the new NANOC web page (blog) .  This blog aims to collect our daily thoughs on subjects as different as cements, polymers, areogels, capsules, etc. . The subjects will certainly revolve around the nanoworld and the ways we look at it. Having an informal purpose, the blog will post news of different nature. Both profound subjects and trivial or banal matters will be found depending on the mood of our bloggers. In any case, this blog is born with  the firm intention of exchange information and make us be a bit more visible in this ever more changing world. We hope that you like it.