Behaviour of Roofing Materials Facing to Micro-Organisms - Green and Sustainable Chemistry

GSC > Vol.3 No.1, February 2013

Green and Sustainable Chemistry

Volume 3, Issue 1 (February 2013)

ISSN Print: 2160-6951 ISSN Online: 2160-696X

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Behaviour of Roofing Materials Facing to Micro-Organisms ()

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DOI: 10.4236/gsc.2013.31002 4,195 Downloads 7,218 Views Citations

Author(s)

Marielle Fassier, Céline Faugeron, Vincent Gloaguen, Céline Ducroquetz, Olivier Dupont

Affiliation(s)

Centre Technique de Matériaux Naturels de Construction, Paris, France.
Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, Limoges, France.

ABSTRACT

An accelerated water-streaming test was used to evaluate several roofing materials regarding their behavior to colonization by algae, by closely reproducing the phenomenon of natural biological soiling. A set of roofing materials with defined physical and chemical characteristics was thus investigated against the colonization by algae. Porosity, roughness and chemical composition showed to be factors of influence in the establishment of those micro-organisms.

KEYWORDS

Building Materials; Fired Clay Products; Water-Streaming Test; Micro-Organisms; Colonization

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M. Fassier, C. Faugeron, V. Gloaguen, C. Ducroquetz and O. Dupont, "Behaviour of Roofing Materials Facing to Micro-Organisms," Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2013, pp. 8-14. doi: 10.4236/gsc.2013.31002.

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