Understanding silicate hydration from quantitative analyses of hydrating tricalcium silicates

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...

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Main Authors: Elizaveta Pustovgar, Rahul P. Sangodkar, Andrey S. Andreev, Marta Palacios, Bradley F. Chmelka, Robert J. Flatt, Jean-Baptiste d’Espinose de Lacaillerie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10952