Self‐compacting concrete (SCC) is a type of concrete that can consolidate itself without external compaction. High‐strength SCC (HS‐SCC) is becoming more popular having a very broad range of application in Civil Engineering, such as piles, columns of tall buildings and piers for long‐span bridges. However, HS‐SCC is very brittle that limits its application above. To this, present study aims at mitigating the brittleness of HS‐SCC having a fixed water/binder ratio of 0.30 and binder content of 500 kg/m3 by blending cement with condensed silica fume (CSF). The percentage of CSF that replaced cement was 0–15% by weight. Apart from measuring the brittleness, mechanical property such as splitting tensile and compressive strength, as well as fresh property, such as slump flow, V‐funnel time, and L‐box passing ability was also obtained. The experimental results indicated that 10% replacement of cement by CSF could effectively decrease the brittleness of HS‐SCC and simultaneously increase the 28‐day compressive strength. On the other hand, the slump flow of concrete decreased as the content of CSF increased, but nonetheless was able to maintain at above 600 mm, which is a commonly accepted criteria for SCC. Lastly, scanning electron microscope figures showed that the microstructure of concrete and hydration morphology were enhanced by CSF particle.

Structures, magnetism and electrocatalytic oxygen evolution for four dinuclear, 1D and 3D complexes based on transition metals were reported.

A new salicylaldehyde-based azo dye 5-azotriazolyl-3-methoxysalicylaldehyde (H2TMSA) displaying pH-dependent azo-hydrazone tautomerism and its two Ln3+ complexes displaying slow magnetic relaxation were reported.

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By inducing thermal explosion in high-gravity field to prepare the laminated composite of TiB 2-based ceramic and Ti-6Al-4V alloy, spatial span-scale continuously-graded microstructure was achieved in interfacial region between the ceramic and Ti alloy, and the formation of the interfacial microstructure resulted from full-liquid ceramic-metal fusion, atomic interdiffusion and subsequent peritectic reaction of TiB 2 primary phases with Ti liquid of graded concentration. By using 14.5 mm AP to conduct DOP test to evaluate ballistic performance of the laminated composite, it was considered that comparing to TiB 2-based ceramic, the presence of spatial span-scale continuously-graded microstructure between the ceramic and Ti alloy brought about the enhanced ballistic performance of the laminated composite by 133.0%.

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