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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023

3D Off-Lattice Coarse-Grained Monte Carlo Simulations for Nucleation of Alkaline Aluminosilicate Gels.

Mohammadreza Izadifar, Nicolas Castrillon Valencia, Peng Xiao, Neven Ukrainczyk, Eduardus Koenders

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Mohammadreza IzadifarInstitute of Construction and Building Materials, Technical University of Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8153-4834
Nicolas Castrillon ValenciaInstitute of Construction and Building Materials, Technical University of Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-5643-4399
Peng XiaoInstitute of Construction and Building Materials, Technical University of Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0009-0009-7396-2132
Neven UkrainczykInstitute of Construction and Building Materials, Technical University of Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4122-0547
Eduardus KoendersInstitute of Construction and Building Materials, Technical University of Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8664-2554

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Abstract

This work presents a 3D off-lattice coarse-grained Monte Carlo (CGMC) approach to simulate the nucleation of alkaline aluminosilicate gels, their nanostructure particle size, and their pore size distribution. In this model, four monomer species are coarse-grained with different particle sizes. The novelty is extending the previous on-lattice approach from White et al. (2012 and 2020) by implementing a full off-lattice numerical implementation to consider tetrahedral geometrical constraints when aggregating the particles into clusters. Aggregation of the dissolved silicate and aluminate monomers was simulated until reaching the equilibrium condition of 16.46% and 17.04% in particle number, respectively. The cluster size formation was analyzed as a function of iteration step evolution. The obtained equilibrated nano-structure was digitized to obtain the pore size distribution and this was compared with the on-lattice CGMC and measurement results from White et al. The observed difference highlighted the importance of the developed off-lattice CGMC approach to better describe the nanostructure of aluminosilicate gels.

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3D off-lattice coarse-grained Monte Carloalkali silicate solutionaluminosilicate geopolymer gelscluster size distributionmetakaolinite-based geopolymernanostructurenucleationpore size distribution

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PMID36902975
PMCPMC10004603

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