Sustainable reinforcement for concrete has newly discovered benefits
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 13:03
in Physics & Chemistry
Fashionable people may turn up their noses at jute—the cheap fiber used to make burlap, gunny sacks, twine and other common products—but new research is enhancing jute's appeal as an inexpensive, sustainable reinforcement for mortar and concrete. The study appears in ACS' journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.