Production of carbon-based fillers toward concrete strengthening

Reduction of cement consumption in concrete production (more than 200 Bt yearly) is a top-priority ecological task in view of the contribution of the cement industry to global warming. This article discusses applicability of multilayer graphene and graphene-like materials—cavitation-activated soot—as nanomodifiers for strengthening of concrete in construction of foundations, underground structures and other geotechnical facilities. The source materials are graphite (grades GK-1, GAK-2), produced from treated ore and metallurgical waste (GrafitServis, Chelyabinsk), and wood soot. The approaches to graphite exfoliation by the hydrodynamic technology with effects of cavitation—liquid-phase exfoliation, using a high-speed mixer, to the state of graphene, and by the high-energy cavitation in a supercavitation mixer are discussed. The electron microscopy, sedimentation and dispersion analysis, X-ray phase analysis, electron paramagnetic resonance and Mössbauer spectroscopy show that graphite dispersion forms multilayered graphene and graphene quantum dots (graphene nanoparticles) 10 to 100 nm in size, and post-cavitation soot contains traces of fullerene. It is found that addition of multilayer graphene and post-cavitation soot in the form of effective water suspensions allows concrete strength comparable with the strength of ordinary concrete with higher content of cement.

Stebeleva O. P., Vshivkova O. A., Pyanykh T. A., Moiseenko E. T., Odintsov R. V. Production of carbon-based fillers toward concrete strengthening. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2025;(10):61-82. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2025_10_0_61.

The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 24-29-00593, https://rscf.ru/project/24-29-00593/.

O.P. Stebeleva¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: opstebeleva@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9559-1522,
O.A. Vshivkova, Cand. Sci. (Phys. Mathem.), Junior Researcher, Krasnoyarsk Science Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, e-mail: oavshivkova@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0779-3547,
T.A. Pyanykh¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: Ostanina.t@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0009-0004-9914-7535,
E.T. Moiseenko¹, Cand. Sci. (Phys. Mathem.), Research Engineer, e-mail: e.t.moiseenko@ya.ru, ORCID ID: 0009-0006-4938-9987,
R.V. Odintsov¹, Engineer, e-mail: pomamow@gmail.com, ORCID ID: 0009-0002-5971-6647,
¹ Siberian Federal University, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia,

O.P. Stebeleva, e-mail: opstebeleva@mail.ru.

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