Research Thrust 1: High-performance Fiber-reinforced Cementitious Composites

1. Resilient: durable, strain-hardening property, high tensile strength, and high tensile ductility
2. Sustainable: green raw materials and wastes
3. Multifunctionality: temperature management, self-sensing, self-cleaning, and air-purifying

Research Thrust 2: CO₂ Utilization by Cementitious Materials

Mechanical properties and durability of concrete has been improved by CO₂ curing and CO₂ injection:

1. Optimize CO₂ curing procedures to precast concrete with high CO₂ uptake efficiency
2. Develop a low carbon precast concrete adapted to CO₂ curing technology
3. Optimize CO₂ injection procedures to concrete during mixing
4. Develop a low carbon ready-mix concrete adapted to CO₂ injection technology

Research Thrust 3: Sea Water and Sea Sand Concrete

Sea water and sea sand concrete (SEACON) has been developed:

1. CProperly design SEACON matrix (cementitious materials-sand-chemical admixtures) with denser microstructure and higher cracking resistance
2. Use non-metallic fibers to minimize/eliminate steel in concrete for better durability

Research Thrust 4: Bio-inspired Engineering Materials

Bio-inspired engineering materials have been developed:

1. Ultra-light weight, high toughness, ultra-high flexural strength
2. Multifunctionality: temperature management, self-sensing, self-cleaning, and air-purifying

Research Thrust 5: Machine Learning

Intelligent algorithms have been developed:

1. Prediction: logic-guided neural networks for predicting materials properties
2. Optimization: novel metaheuristic optimization algorithms, game theory-based optimization