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 ...

Symmetrical solid oxide cells (SSOCs) with identical air and fuel electrodes have gained significant scientific interest in the last decade because they offer several advantages over conventional cell configurations. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Studying nanomaterials' ecotoxicology is not new but there are still gaps in our understanding of their fate in the environment. A major challenge is lack of reliable tools to measure available concentrations of nanoparticles ...

The main features in cationic LTA zeolites that are likely to impact its potential hydrothermal stability are interconnected. The Al content and the compensating cation play an important role in the water adsorption but ...

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 ...

The use of active layers is a promising strategy to improve the properties of air electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In this work, La0.8Sr0.2MnO3-δ is combined with different oxide ion conductors Ce0.9Gd0.1O1.95, ...