Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: Bitumen that is solid at ambient temperature in the form of granules that include a core made of a first bituminous material and a coating made of a second bituminous material, the second bituminous material having a total content of asphaltenes, extracted using n-alkane, of 30% to 50% by weight in relation to the total weight of the bitumen in the coating.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material in the form of a cellular solid monolith consisting of an inorganic oxide polymer. Said monolith comprises macropores which have an average size dA of 4 ?m to 50 ?m, mesopores that have an average size dE of 20 to 30 ?, and micropores which have an average size d1 of 5 à 10 ?, said pores being interconnected. The inorganic oxide polymer has organic groups R of formula —(CH2)n—R1, wherein 0?n?5, and R1 is selected from among a thiol group, a pyrrole group, an amino group having one or more optional, optionally substituted alkyl, alkylamino, or aryl substituents, an alkyl group, or a phenyl group optionally having an alkyl-type substituent R2. The disclosed material can be used as a substrate for a metal catalyst and for decontaminating liquid or gaseous media.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: Bitumen that is solid at ambient temperature in the form of granules that include a core made of a first bituminous material and a coating made of a second bituminous material, the second bituminous material having a total content of asphaltenes, extracted using n-alkane, of 30% to 50% by weight in relation to the total weight of the bitumen in the coating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a submicrometric material consisting of a silica shell encasing a core of superparamagnetic wax, to the process for producing same and to the uses thereof, in particular for the magnetically stimulated delivery of substances of interest.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing macroscopic fibers of titanium dioxide (TiO2) by continuous extrusion in a one-way flow, to the macroscopic fibers of TiO2 that can be obtained by such a method, to the use of said fibers in heterogeneous photocatalysis for decontamination of organic pollutants from gaseous environments, and to a method for decontaminating gaseous environments, in particular air, using such fibers.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A method for preparing a solid bitumen material at ambient temperature, said method comprising at least the steps of: a) preparing an emulsion of bitumen drops in a water phase; b) preparing a silica sol or silica gel from a silicon oxide precursor that has a pH of 4 to 8; c) bringing the emulsion of bitumen drops from step a) into contact with the silica sol or silica gel from step b); d) subjecting the bitumen suspension from step c) to an atomization treatment.

Abstract: A method for preparing a solid bitumen material at ambient temperature, the method comprising at least the steps of: a) preparing a stabilized emulsion of bitumen drops in a water phase that has a pH of 2 to 4; b) preparing a silica sol or silica gel from a first silicon oxide precursor that has a pH of 2 to 4; c) mineralizing the emulsion of bitumen drops from step a) with the silica sol or gel from step b); d) mineralizing the emulsion of bitumen drops from step c) having a maximum pH of 1 with a second silicon oxide precursor; e) separating the material from the water phase.

Abstract: A process is provided for preparing an inorganic material in the form of an alveolar monolith of a silica matrix where the monolith includes interconnected macropores. The process includes at least one step of mineralizing an oil-in-water emulsion formed from droplets of an oily phase dispersed in a continuous aqueous phase and in which colloidal solid particles are present at the interface formed between the continuous aqueous phase and the dispersed droplets of oily phase. Such materials obtained according to this process may be used, especially for separative chemistry and filtration, for performing chemical reactions catalyzed in heterogeneous phase, as thermal or phonic insulators, or as templates for manufacturing controlled-porosity carbon skeletons.

Abstract: A material in the form of solid particles with a diameter varying from 10 ?m to 1 cm is provided, composed of a continuous solid shell having at least one silicon oxide, said shell imprisoning an aqueous phase The aqueous phase includes at least one hydrophilic substance of interest SH and at least one droplet of a fatty phase predominantly having a crystallizable oil in the solid state at the storage temperature of said material The crystallizable oil has a melting point (TM) of less than 100° C. and including at least one lipophilic substance of interest SL.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a material in the form of solid particles with a diameter varying from 1 ?m to 1 cm which are composed of a continuous shell EExt comprising at least one silicon oxide, said shell EExt imprisoning at least one fatty phase, said material being characterized in that said fatty phase is solid at the storage temperature of said material and predominantly comprises a crystallizable oil having a melting point (TM) of less than 100° C. and in that said fatty phase includes at least one lipophilic substance of interest SL and at least one inclusion comprising a continuous shell EInt comprising at least one silicon oxide, said shell EInt imprisoning an aqueous phase comprising at least one hydrophilic substance of interest SH. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said material, to its use for the thermostimulated delivery of active substances, and also to the compositions including it.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to the field of transparent electrodes. In particular, the invention relates to a method for producing a transparent and conducting auto-supported silver nanowire film, to the transparent and conducting silver nanowire film obtained by said method and to the use of said film as a transparent and flexible electrode in an electric device, in particular in a photovoltaic cell (solar cell).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing macroscopic fibres of titanium dioxide (TiO2) by continuous extrusion in a one-way flow, to the macroscopic fibres of TiO2 that can be obtained by such a method, to the use of said fibres in heterogeneous photocatalysis for decontamination of organic pollutants from gaseous environments, and to a method for decontaminating gaseous environments, in particular air, using such fibres.

Abstract: A macroporous monolithic composite material to a carbon monolith is provided having a hierarchized porous structure has metal nanoparticles. The arrangement also includes a process for the preparation thereof, a process for storing hydrogen that uses same, and to a process for producing gaseous hydrogen that uses such a composite material, where the process is reversible.

Abstract: A porous electrochemical electrode is made up of a solid cellular material provided in the form of a semi-graphitized carbon monolith comprising a hierarchized porous network free of mesopores and including macropores with a mean dimension dA of 1 ?m to 100 ?m, and micropores with a mean dimension dI of 0.5 nm to 2 nm, said macropores and micropores being interconnected. In said electrode, the macropores contain at least one electroactive species in direct contact with the semi-graphitized carbon that makes up the surface of the macropores. The invention also relates to a method for preparing such an electrode as well as to the use thereof as a biosensor or for manufacturing a biopile.