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Awards, publications, new team members and events.
- Oct 2026Our paper "Fractional subdiffusion of molecular hydrogen in irradiated portlandite: connecting atomistic insights and macroscopic release" (D. Simeone, T. Herin, P. Bouniol, S. Poyet, T. Honorio, S. Le Caër) is published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
- Oct 2026Our paper "Multiscale modeling of the electrical resistivity of cementitious systems with mineral additions", by Walter Batista Bonfim, Tulio Honorio and Oswaldo Cascudo, received the Best Paper Award of the Cements Working Group at ENTAC 2026, held in Goiânia, Brazil, on 14–16 October 2026. Congratulations to Walter on this recognition!
- Oct 2026Congratulations to Bilal Mahmoud Hawchar on receiving the ALERT Geomaterials Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize for his thesis on crystallization pressure!
- 2026Opening letter of RILEM TC ASM published in RILEM Technical Letters.
- 2026Fatima Masara joins as postdoc to work on the structure and elasticity of M-(A)-S-H.
- 2026Walter Batista Bonfim (UFG, Brazil) visits to work on C-S-H impedance for low-carbon cements.
- Nov 2025Keynote at the II International Conference on Atomistic Simulation of Cementitious Materials (ICASCM), Nanjing.