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Silicic acid

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Al uptake in calcium silicate hydrate and the effect of alkali hydroxide

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Yan Yan

The effect of Al and of pH on the structure of calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H), the most important hydration product in Portland and blended cement, was studied at Ca/Si similar to 1.0. The presence of Al led to higher amounts of secondary phases, larger ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Effect of alkali, aluminium and equilibration time on calcium-silicate-hydrates

Yu Yan

Calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) is the main hydration product in Portland and blended cements, and greatly affects durability and mechanical properties of the hydrated cement. In the presence of Al-rich supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), C-(A-)S ...

EPFL2022

Characterization of water sorption cycle in the cement microstructure of controlled oxide composition

Monisha Rastogi

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 ...

EPFL2022

Grafting of Alkali Metals on Fumed Silica for the Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Methanol to Formaldehyde

Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski, Jack Brandon

Water free, non-oxidative catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol to formaldehyde is an important process for the formation of anhydrous, molecular formaldehyde (FA). Sodium or sodium-containing salts were shown to catalyze the reaction, but their reaction m ...

2021

Advances in heterogeneous catalysis for the synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers

Christophe Jean Baranowski

Our society is engaged in a major shift towards more sustainable industries. The required transition from fossils to renewable resources with low greenhouse gas emission is specifically challenging in the transportation sector where high thermal efficiency ...

EPFL2020

Carrier injection from amorphous silicon into crystalline silicon determined with photoluminescence

Andrea Ingenito, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Intrinsic amorphous silicon provides excellent surface passivation on crystalline silicon. It has previously been shown, that carriers that are photo generated in the amorphous silicon can be efficiently electronically injected into the crystalline silicon ...

IEEE2018

Investigation of the grade of calcined clays used as clinker substitute in Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3)

François Henri Avet

The combination of calcined kaolinitic clays and limestone in Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) is a promising approach to reduce the cost and the CO2 emissions of cement production by reducing the clinker content of cement. This thesis investigates the ...

EPFL2017

Freestanding Ultrathin Nanoparticle Membranes Assembled at Transient Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

Francesco Stellacci, Stefan Guldin, Zhi Luo, Sergio Allegri, Benjamin Timothée Nicolas Le Ouay

A synthetic route is presented for the realization of ultrathin freestanding nanoparticle membranes that are built of gold nanoparticles protected with trimethoxysilane-bearing ligands. The mechanism relies on interfacial assembly in an oil-water mixture. ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Silaffins in Silica Biomineralization and Biomimetic Silica Precipitation

Carolin Christine Lechner

Biomineralization processes leading to complex solid structures of inorganic material in biological systems are constantly gaining attention in biotechnology and biomedical research. An outstanding example for biomineral morphogenesis is the formation of h ...

Mdpi Ag2015

Influences of Dilute Organic Adsorbates on the Hydration of Low-Surface-Area Silicates

David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Bradley Floyd Chmelka, David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan

Competitive adsorption of dilute quantities of certain organic molecules and water at silicate surfaces strongly influence the rates of silicate dissolution, hydration, and crystallization. Here, we determine the molecular-level structures, compositions, a ...

American Chemical Society2015

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