ArticleNature communications2023
4D nanoimaging of early age cement hydration.
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- Design of a Multi-Ion Detection System Based on IoT Technology and Its Application in Cement-Based Materials.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- In situ ptychographic x-ray nanotomography of temperature-controlled crystallization processes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- On the optimization of the geometric pattern for structured illumination based X-ray phase contrast and dark-field imaging: a simulation study and its experimental validation.Journal of synchrotron radiation · 2026Article
- In Situ Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography of Fully Hydrated Polyamide Membranes.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Article
- Clays for Low-Carbon Cements: Overview, Progress, and Challenges.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2026Review
- 4D Synchrotron X‑ray Nanoimaging for Early Age Cement Curing: Where Are We and Where Should We Go?Accounts of materials research · 2025Article
- Mix and measure II: joint high-energy laboratory powder diffraction and microtomography for cement hydration studies.Journal of applied crystallography · 2024Article
- Molecular insight into the initial hydration of tricalcium aluminate.Nature communications · 2024Article
- An efficient ptychography reconstruction strategy through fine-tuning of large pre-trained deep learning model.iScience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Despite a century of research, our understanding of cement dissolution and precipitation processes at early ages is very limited. This is due to the lack of methods that can image these processes with enough spatial resolution, contrast and field of view. Here, we adapt near-field ptychographic nanotomography to in situ visualise the hydration of commercial Portland cement in a record-thick capillary. At 19 h, porous C-S-H gel shell, thickness of 500 nm, covers every alite grain enclosing a water gap. The spatial dissolution rate of small alite grains in the acceleration period, ∼100 nm/h, is approximately four times faster than that of large alite grains in the deceleration stage, ∼25 nm/h. Etch-pit development has also been mapped out. This work is complemented by laboratory and synchrotron microtomographies, allowing to measure the particle size distributions with time. 4D nanoimaging will allow mechanistically study dissolution-precipitation processes including the roles of accelerators and superplasticizers.
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