The Properties and Latest Application of Geopolymers

With unique and favorable performances, geopolymer have attracted extensive attention in recent years. It combines some characteristics of organic polymers,cements and ceramics for its special poly-condensed network structure. This paper introduced the synthesis and performance of geopolymer, and mainly reviewed its application in recent years.We can see that the geopolymer has a great development future in many fields like civil engineering,innovative geopolymer binder, rapidly-repair and dealing with poisonous and radioactive waste material, geopolymer-type coatings, novel ceramic materials and so on. In addition, the existing problems and several suggestions according to personal researches are put forward. (paper)