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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 nanoimaging of early age cement hydration.
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Díaz, Ana; Trtik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko; Rack, Alexander; Lukic, Bratislav; Brun, Emmanuel; Salcedo, Inés R.; 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-García, Ana María; 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 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; Mazanec, Oliver; Dalla-Libera, Alessandro; Dhers, Sebastien; Schwesig, Peter; Borralleras, Pere; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Ernst & Sohn GmbH, 2023-12-06)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 ... -
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-García, Ana María; 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-García, Ana María; 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 ... -
Belite cements and their activation
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Ayuela, Andrés; 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-García, Ana María; 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 ... -
“Breathing” in Adsorbate-Responsive Metal Tetraphosphonate Hybrid Materials
Pérez-Colodrero, Rosario Mercedes; Cabeza-Díaz, Aurelio; Olivera-Pastor, Pascual; Infantes-Molina, Antonia; Barouda, Eleni; Demadis, Konstantinos D.; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH&Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2009-05-28)The structures of various layered calcium tetraphosphonates (CaH6DTMP; H8DTMP=hexamethyl- tetrakis(methylenephosphonic acid)), have been determined. Starting from CaH6DTMP·2H2O, thermal treatment and subsequent exposure ... -
C-S-H seeding activation of Portland and Belite cements: An enlightening in situ synchrotron powder diffraction study
Morales-Cantero, Alejandro; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Mazanec, Oliver; Borralleras, Pere; Weldert, Kai S.; Gastaldi, Daniela; Canonico, Fulvio; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2022-11)C-S-H seeding in Portland cements is well known from basic scientific works and field applications. Moreover, this activation approach could be beneficial for low-CO2 cements under development where a general drawback is ... -
Calcium aluminate cement conversion analysed by ptychographic nanotomography
Shirani, Shiva; Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Díaz, Ana; Trtrik, Pavel; Holler, Mirko; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (Elsevier, 2020-08-17)Calcium aluminate cements are used for special applications but are nowadays banned for general structural purposes due to the calcium aluminate hydrate conversion, that has led, for concretes fabricated with high water ... -
Chemistry and Mass Density of Aluminum Hydroxide Gel in Eco-Cements by Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography
Cuesta-García, Ana María; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Trtik, Pavel; Da Silva, Julio C.; Díaz, Ana; Holler, Mirko; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (ACS, 2017)Eco-cements are a desirable alternative to ordinary Portland cements because of their lower CO2 footprints. Some ye’elimite-based ecocements are attracting a lot of interest. Understanding the reasons for the mechanical ... -
Clinkering and hydration of belite-ye'elimite-alite cement
Londono-Zuluaga, Diana; Tobón, Jorge Iván; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles (Elsevier, 2017)Some belite-ye´elimite-ferrite (BYF) cements present low mechanical strengths mainly due to the slow reactivity of belite. A solution to this problem may be the activation of BYF clinkers by preparing them with a coexistence ... -
Common Structural Features in Calcium Hydroxyphosphonoacetates. A High-Throughput Screening
Pérez-Colodrero, Rosario Mercedes; Cabeza-Díaz, Aurelio; Olivera-Pastor, Pascual; Papadaki, M.; Rius, Jordi; Choquesillo-Lazarte, Duane; García-Ruíz, Juan M.; Demadis, Konstantinos D.; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel[et al.] (2011-03-11)R,S-Hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid (H3HPA) is an inexpensive multidentate organic ligand widely used for the preparation of organo-inorganic hybrid materials. There are reports of several crystal structures and the variability ... -
A comparative study of experimental configurations in synchrotron pair distribution function
Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.; Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los Ángeles; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Cuesta-García, Ana María (MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals, 2019-04-25)The identification and quantification of amorphous components and nanocrystalline phases with very small crystal sizes, smaller than ~3 nm, within samples containing crystalline phases is very challenging. However, this ... -
Crystal engineering in confined spaces. A novel method to grow crystalline metal phosphonates in alginate gel systems
Stavgianoudaki, Nikoleta; Papathanasiou, Konstantinos E.; Pérez-Colodrero, Rosario Mercedes; Choquesillo-Lazarte, Duane; García-Ruíz, Juan M.; Cabeza-Díaz, Aurelio; García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel; Demadis, Konstantinos D.[et al.] (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)In this paper we report a crystal growth method for metal phosphonate frameworks in alginate gels. It consists of a metalcontaining alginate gel, in which a solution of phosphonate ligand is slowly diffused. Crystals of ...