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Silicate mineral
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Characterization of water sorption cycle in the cement microstructure of controlled oxide composition
This thesis investigates the water vapour sorption behaviour of samples with maximized calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) content. Primarily, the role of heterogeneous and homogeneous cavitation has been studied during the drying of cementitious materials. C ...
EPFL2022Reactive dicalcium silicate binders: Microstructure and transport properties
The calcium silicate hydrates (C-S-H) are without doubt one of the most important hydration products in a hardened cement paste. Giving the complexity of the microstructure that forms by hydration of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and the more recently use ...
EPFL2022The effect of alkali hydroxides and equilibration time on Al uptake by calcium silicate hydrates (C-S-H)
Cement production accounts for approximately 8% of man-made CO2 emissions. Lowering these CO2 emissions is currently one of the most important and urgent research topics within the cement community. To reduce these emissions, the Portland cement (PC) is pa ...
EPFL2021Aggregate dissolution in different pore solutions
The occurrence of cracking due to alkali silica reaction (ASR) affects the service life of concrete structures. The dissolution of silica-containing minerals within aggregates causes the formation of ASR products, which fill macroscopic cracks and cause th ...
EPFL2021The effect of sodium hydroxide on Al uptake by calcium silicate hydrates (C S H)
Christian Ludwig, Barbara Lothenbach, Sonya Barzgar, Mohamed Tarik, Alessio Di Giacomo
To reduce the CO2 emissions from cement production, Portland cement (PC) is partially replaced by supplementary cementitious materials (SCM). Reactions of SCM with PC during hydration leads to the formation of CSH with more silicon and aluminum than in PC, ...
2020The impact of calcite impurities in clays containing kaolinite on their reactivity in cement after calcination
Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Emmanuelle Boehm Courjault
The use of supplementary cementitious materials as a partial replacement for Portland cement is the most effective way to reduce the carbon footprint of the concrete industry. Raw clays containing kaolinite (kaolin) are promising substitute materials. In t ...
SPRINGER2020Direct currents stimulate carbonate mineralization for soil improvement under various chemical conditions
Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis, Patrick Gabriel Yihsiu-Ming Hicher
The present study integrates direct electric currents into traditional calcium carbonate mineralization to investigate electrochemical interactions and the subsequent crystalline growth of CaCO3 bonds in sand. A specific line of focus refers to the effect ...
2020Montmorillonite clay-modified disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode as a sensitive voltammetric sensor for the determination of cadmium(II) and lead(II)
Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic, Victor Costa Bassetto, Léopoldine Guenang Sonfack
This work describes a new sensitive sensor for the simultaneous electrochemical determination by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry of Cd2+ and Pb2+ ions in aqueous solution, based on a disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode (IPGE) modifed by ...
2020Young's modulus and creep of calcium-silicate-hydrate compacts measured by microindentation
Karen Scrivener, Zhangli Hu, Pietro Lura
In this paper, compacts of synthetic calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) with 0.8-1.5 calcium-to-silicon ratio (Ca/Si) and 30-80% porosity were prepared by one-direction cold pressing. The Young's modulus and the creep of C-S-H compacts were measured by micro ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Molten Fe-Si-O in Earth's Core
Silicon and oxygen are potential light elements in Earth's core because their stronger affinity to metal observed with increasing temperature posits that significant amounts of both can be incorporated into the core. It was proposed that an Fe-Si-O liquid ...
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2019