{"id":24072,"date":"2021-11-18T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/?p=24072"},"modified":"2024-05-29T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:17:10","slug":"fluorescent-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/?p=24072&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescent Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid  vc_custom_1507696989698\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\" vc_custom_1637252339504 last-paragraph-no-margin\"><div>\n<p>The Mexican researcher Jos\u00e9 Carlos Rubio \u00c1valos, from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicol\u00e1s de Hidalgo, created a fluorescent cement. His reasoning was: \u00abIf we find it scattered around the world, if we see it in an infinity of buildings, roads, houses and bridges, then the cement is surely exposed to solar radiation.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The principle of a phosphorescent material is to absorb ultraviolet radiation during the day to later shine at night. Cement is an opaque body and that is why it does not allow light to pass through. After studying the composition of Portland cement, the team of researchers modified the microscopic structure \u00abnot to make it transparent or translucent, but so that it could absorb UV rays.\u00bb Rubio \u00c1valos explained: \u00abIt was about allowing the diffusion of light radiation through the silica &#8211; present in cement &#8211; which is the same material with which glass is made.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>To make it phosphorescent, Rubio and his team modified the optical properties of this material. The intensity and color of the phosphorescence in the cement varies according to the concentration of the additives that allow the passage of more or less light. Phosphorescent cement has the same durability as normal cement.<br \/>\nThe researcher commented: \u201cThe applications are very broad, among which the most outstanding are the architectural market: facades, swimming pools, bathrooms, kitchens, parking lots, etcetera; in road safety and signs; in the power generation sector, such as oil platforms \u201d.<br \/>\nThis cement was conceived as a covering layer for building facades or to be used in signaling roads and highways, the expert clarified, as it is four times more expensive than normal cement.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mexican researcher Jos\u00e9 Carlos Rubio \u00c1valos, from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicol\u00e1s de Hidalgo, created a fluorescent cement. His reasoning was: \"If we find it scattered around the world, if we see it in an infinity of buildings, roads, houses and bridges, then the cement is surely exposed to solar radiation.\" The principle of a phosphorescent material is to absorb ultraviolet radiation during the day to later shine at night. Cement is an opaque body and that is why it does not allow light to pass through. After studying the composition of Portland cement, the team of researchers modified the microscopic structure \"not to make it transparent or translucent, but so that it could absorb UV rays.\" Rubio \u00c1valos explained: \"It was about allowing the diffusion of light radiation through the silica - present in cement - which is the same material with which glass is made.\" To make it phosphorescent, Rubio and his team modified the optical properties of this material. The intensity and color of the phosphorescence in the cement varies according to the concentration of the additives that allow the passage of more or less light. Phosphorescent cement has the same durability as normal cement....","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24073,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072\/revisions\/24073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derco.com.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}