Understanding silicate hydration from quantitative analyses of hydrating tricalcium silicates

Elizaveta Pustovgar; Rahul P. Sangodkar; Andrey S. Andreev; Marta Palacios; Bradley F. Chmelka; Robert J. Flatt; Jean-Baptiste d’Espinose de Lacaillerie

doi:10.1038/ncomms10952

Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Understanding silicate hydration from quantitative analyses of hydrating tricalcium silicates

Elizaveta Pustovgar,
Rahul P. Sangodkar,
Andrey S. Andreev,
Marta Palacios,
Bradley F. Chmelka,
Robert J. Flatt,
Jean-Baptiste d’Espinose de Lacaillerie

Affiliations

Elizaveta Pustovgar: Department of Civil, Institute for Building Materials, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Rahul P. Sangodkar: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California
Andrey S. Andreev: Soft Matter Science and Engineering Laboratory, UMR CNRS 7615, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University
Marta Palacios: Department of Civil, Institute for Building Materials, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Bradley F. Chmelka: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California
Robert J. Flatt: Department of Civil, Institute for Building Materials, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Jean-Baptiste d’Espinose de Lacaillerie: Department of Civil, Institute for Building Materials, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10952
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Despite its importance to the cement industry, tricalcium silicate hydration, with its sequence of induction, acceleration and deceleration steps, still hosts many open questions. Here, 29Si nuclear magnetic resonance provides new information on the silicate polymerization mechanism and its kinetics.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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