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• TITLE: Behaviour of Roofing Materials Facing to Micro-Organisms

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

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

  JOURNAL NAME: Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Vol.3 No.1, February 25, 2013

  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.