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2D Corrugated Magnesium Carboxyphosphonate Materials: Topotactic Transformations and Interlayer “Decoration” with Ammonia
Demadis, Konstantinos D.; Famelis, Nikos; Cabeza-Díaz, Aurelio
; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Pérez-Colodrero, Rosario Mercedes; Infantes-Molina, Antonia[et al.] (American Chemical Society, 2012-06-29)
In this paper we report the synthesis and structural characterization of the 2D layered coordination polymer Mg(BPMGLY)(H2O)2 (BPMGLY = bis-phosphonomethylglycine, (HO3PCH2)2N(H)COO2−). The Mg ion is found in a slightly ... -
4D Early Age Cement Hydration Analysis by Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography and Machine Learning Segmentation
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Diaz, Ana; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Trtik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko[et al.] (2022-06)
Cement manufacturing is responsible for ~7% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions and hence, decreasing the CO2 footprint, in a sustainable, safe and cost-effective way, is a top priority. To fully understand the binder main ... -
4D nanoimaging of early age cement hydration.
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Diaz, Ana; Trtik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko; Rack, Alexander; Lukic, Bratislav; Brun, Emmanuel; Ruiz Salcedo, Inés; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Springer Nature, 2023-05-08)
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 ... -
Accuracy in Cement Hydration Investigations: Combined X-ray Microtomography and Powder Diffraction Analyses
Salcedo, Inés R.; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Shirani, Shiva; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (MDPI, 2021-11-17)
Cement hydration is a very complex set of processes. The evolution of the crystalline phases during hydration can be accurately followed by X-ray powder diffraction data evaluated by the Rietveld method. However, accurate ... -
Accuracy in cement hydration investigations: Combined X-ray microtomography and powder diffraction analyses
Ruiz Salcedo, Inés; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Shirani, Shiva; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (2022-06)
Cements are multi-phase materials that can be well understood using a multi-technique approach. Furthermore, the hydration of cement pastes is a very complex set of processes. In this work, we focus on the accuracy of the ... -
Accuracy in Rietveld quantitative phase analysis: a comparative study of strictly monochromatic Mo and Cu radiations
León-Reina, Laura; García-Maté, Marta; Álvarez-Pinazo, Gema; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Vallcorba, Oriol; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Willey online Library, 2016)
This study reports 78 Rietveld quantitative phase analyses using Cu K 1, Mo K 1 and synchrotron radiations. Synchrotron powder diffraction has been used to validate the most challenging analyses. From the results for ... -
Activation of LC3 binders by C-S-H nucleation seeding with a new tailored admixture for low-carbon cements.
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Manzanec, Oliver; Dalla-Libera, Alessandro; Dhers, Sebastien; Schwesig, Peter; Borralleras, Pere; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2023)
The use of supplementary cementitious materials is currently the most favorable strategy for reducing CO2 emissions in cements. Limestone Calcined Clay Cements, LC3, are a type of cement that allows the reduction of CO2 ... -
Active Sulpho-belite cements. Hydration mechanisms and mechanical properties
(Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2015)The threat of climate change is considered one of the major environmental challenges for our society, where carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the main Greenhouse gases (GHGs). Every ton of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) ... -
Advanced synchrotron studies of ye'elimite-based cement pastes
García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel (2018-07-18)
Synchrotron characterization techniques [1] are being used to study Portland-based cements and recently also CSA and related cements. A key property of these techniques is that they do not require sample preparation, so ... -
ALBA Synchrotron Light Source
García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (2015-03-23)
ALBA synchrotron light source (www.cells.es) is the largest Spanish research infrastructure that started full operation of its first 7 beamlines on February 2013. I will divide the talk in three parts: i) the general ... -
Alite hydration mechanism in presence of ye’elimite related to BAY cements
Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Tobón, Jorge Iván; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles (2019-10-08)
One alternative to decrease CO2 emissions from ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) production consists on the development of a new kind of eco-cements composed by less calcite demanding phases. That is the case of ... -
Alite-belite-ye'elimite cements: Effect of dopants on the clinker phase composition and properties
Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel (2018-10-30)
Clinkers with alite-belite-ye'elimite (ABY) are considered as eco-friendly cements. Clinkering (2 Kg) of two types of ABY clinkers was optimized: standard-ABY, with CaF2 and ZnO as dopants (32.6 wt% alite, 30.4 wt% β-C2S ... -
Aluminum Hydroxide Gel Characterization within a Calcium Aluminate Cement Paste by Combined Pair Distribution Function and Rietveld Analyses
Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Ichikawa, Rodrigo U.; Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Turrillas, Xavier; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2017-06)
There are many commercially important multiphase materials which contain amorphous phases, such as cement pastes, porcelains, glass-ceramics or pharmaceutical compounds. However, the analysis of amorphous phase(s) within ... -
Aluminum-rich belite sulfoaluminate cements: clinkering and early age hydration
Martín-Sedeño, M. Carmen; Cuberos, Antonio J M; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Álvarez-Pinazo, Gema; Ordónez, Luis M; Gateshki, Milen; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2009)
Belite sulfoaluminate (BSA) cements have been proposed as environmentally friendly building materials, as their production may release up to 35% less CO2 into the atmosphere when compared to ordinary Portland cements. ... -
Amorphous determination in calcium sulfoaluminate materials by external and internal methods
García-Maté, Marta; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; León-Reina, Laura; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Baco, Isabelle; Morin, Vincent; Walenta, Günther; Gartner, Ellis; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles[et al.] (ICE Publishing, 2014)
External standard methodology has been successfully applied to quantify the known amounts of amorphous component that are increasingly added to cement-related materials. The consistency and accuracy of the methodology were ... -
ANALYSIS OF BUILDING MATERIALS BY SYNCHROTRON X-RAY IMAGING
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (-, 2021-01)
Building materials have complex hierarchical microstructures. The largest components are coarse aggregates with dimensions larger than a few centimetres and the smallest ones are the calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel ... -
Applications of synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction in hydrated cements: high-resolution and high-pressure studies
Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Popescu, Catalin; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (2016-07-12)
The main aim of this study is to apply synchrotron radiation techniques for the study of hydrated cement pastes. In particular, the tetracalcium aluminoferrite phase, C4AF in cement nomenclature, is the major iron-containing ... -
Belite cements and their activation
Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Ayuela, Andres; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2020-11)
Belite cements, BCs, containing mainly belite, alite and calcium aluminates, are currently used as low heat cements. These binders produce high amounts of C–S–H gel and have very good durability properties which are reviewed. ... -
Belite clinkers with increasing aluminium content: effect of calcium aluminates on calcium silicate hydration
Redondo-Soto, Cinthya; Gastaldi, Daniela; Irico, Sara; Canonico, Fulvio; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2022)
Belite cements (BCs) could have advantages over Portland cements concerning durability, low heat development and the use of less demanding raw materials. The activation of BCs by sulfur addition at the clinkering stage and ... -
Belite hydration at high temperature and pressure by in situ synchrotron powder diffraction
Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Cuesta-Garcia, Ana Maria; Fraga-López, Edmundo; Shirani, Shiva; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2020-10-16)
Portland cements are currently used as Oil‐Well‐Cements for the sheath between the metal casing and the borehole. At high pressures and temperatures, the resulting C-S-H gel(s) is partly unstable and it can react to give ...