Artificial coastlines, including human-made dikes and other engineered constructions, can help prevent erosion and protect from storms and flooding. However, ecological functions remain unprotected ...

When you think about the world's most stunning coastal destinations, your mind might drift to tropical beaches or dramatic cliffs. Yet the countries boasting the most extensive might surprise you.

In this paper, a pilot type of cement-based composite materials (CCM) was proposed and prepared by using Portland cement as the substrate, polyacrylamide (PAM) and chitosan (CS) as the functional ...