Ong and Leong at Swinburne’s research lab.
KUCHING: Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus are excited about the potential of creating a greener variety of cement using locally-sourced industrial by-products.
Swinburne Sarawak Research Centre for Sustainable Technologies acting director Dr Dominic Ong and PhD student Leong Hsiao Yun are using fly ash from coal combustion to make a material called geopolymer, which can be used to replace ordinary Portland cement in concrete.
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