In the recent years, grinding technology has been brought a new product with prospective properties. If quartz sand is ground, a new product is obtained with superior properties than its original. The literature contains some studies focused on employing quartz powder (QP) in traditional cementitious materials and geopolymers as additives to obtain modified matrices. This article presents a brief of the past studies fixated on adding QP into different matrices. Fresh and hardened properties have been briefed.
This review was submitted as part of the 2018 Materials Literature Review Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining run by the Editorial Board of MST. Sponsorship of the prize by TWI Ltd is gratefully acknowledged.
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