Revealing Early Signs of Damage in Cement Using Near-Infrared Fluorescence

AZoOptics interviews R. Bruce Weisman from Rice University in Texas, US, who has discovered fluorescence from silicon nanoparticles in cement and how it can be used to reveal early signs of damage in concrete structures.

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