Sericite is an alkaline natural mineral that emits 4 major minerals (calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium) beneficial to plant growth, far-infrared rays, and a large amount of anions, so it has excellent adsorption of harmful substances, antibacterial action, and immunity enhancement effect. Sericite is a mineral of the muscovite family with fine particles, and is called sericite because the surface of the dried material has the same luster as silk. Although it is generally recognized as a generic term for microminerals of mica minerals, it actually refers to white mica with a very small particle size. Sericite is one of the mica minerals with a monoclinic layered structure. The characteristics of the chemical composition of sericite are that the ratio of SiO2 is relatively higher than that of muscovite, and as a compositional characteristic, it has an intermediate composition between muscovite and illite.
The economic growth-oriented development projects implemented in Korea in the past have been applied to waterfront facilities such as rivers and coasts, and many ecological, environmental and landscape problems have been solved due to the direct river strengthening project, parking lot facilities in the waterfront area, and the reckless development of cover structures and coastal waterfront structures. is generating Existing river and coastal maintenance projects prioritize only functional aspects, and most of the general concrete construction methods, natural stone stacking, gabion and concrete mat construction methods are the mainstream. It causes various problems such as damage to the natural environment and landscape.
Eco-concrete production technology using sericite, which has eco-friendly, antibacterial, far-infrared ray emission and UV blocking effects, and eco-friendly sericite porous vegetation ecological concrete production technology that allows moisture and air to pass through and enables plant growth. This project evaluated the performance of eco-friendly sericite porous concrete in which plant growth and moisture can be supplied to the soil by using sericite from Gangwon-do.