1. Water – properties and its influence on building materials. 2. Interface between phases, surface tension, adsorption. 3. Heterogeneous dispersions – stability, rheology. 4. Surfactants – plasticizers, foaming and defoaming agents, air entraining agents, shrinkage reducing admixtures. 5. Alkali-activated aluminosilicates – raw materials. 6. Alkali-activators – water glass, properties. 7. Slag – physico chemical properties a mineralogical composition. 8. Alkali-activated slag. 9. Geopolymers. 10. Slag-sulfated cement and slag-lime cement.

1. Introduction to the laboratory sessions. 2. Determination of the surface tension of water and solutes of different salts and concrete admixtures. 3. Determination of critical micelle concentration of air entraining agents. 4. Determination of the influence of different plasticizers on the rheological properties of cement paste. 5. Effect of water glass dosage on the properties of alkali-activated slag mortar. Specimen preparation and determination of 7 days strength. 6. Effect of water glass composition (silicate modulus) on the properties of alkali-activated slag mortar. Specimen preparation and determination of 7 days strength. 7. Preparation and testing of metakaolin-based geopolymer properties, determination of the influence of different activator types. 8. Effect of the mixing time on the properties of renovation plasters – bulk density, porosity and strength. 9. Assessment of efflorescence on geopolymer samples with different composition. 10. Credit.