Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Concrete material science: Past, present, and future innovations

H Van Damme - Cement and Concrete Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Concrete is flying off, but it is simultaneously facing tremendous challenges in terms of
environmental impact, financial needs, societal acceptance and image. Based on an …

Mechanisms of cement hydration

JW Bullard, HM Jennings, RA Livingston… - Cement and concrete …, 2011 - Elsevier
The current state of knowledge of cement hydration mechanisms is reviewed, including the
origin of the period of slow reaction in alite and cement, the nature of the acceleration …

Molecular-scale mechanisms of CO2 mineralization in nanoscale interfacial water films

MJ Abdolhosseini Qomi, QRS Miller, S Zare… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The calamitous impacts of unabated carbon emission from fossil-fuel-burning energy
infrastructure call for accelerated development of large-scale CO2 capture, utilization and …

Supplementary cementitious materials

R Snellings, G Mertens, J Elsen - Reviews in mineralogy …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The current widespread use of calcium silicate or aluminate hydrate binder systems in the
construction industry finds its roots in the Antique world where mixtures of calcined lime and …

Calcium carbonate formation and dissolution

JW Morse, RS Arvidson, A Lüttge - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Calcium carbonate is an important and often dominant component of marine sediments. This
is reflected by the observation that about 20% by volume of Phanerozoic (0-547 Ma; Ma) …

Dissolution theory applied to the induction period in alite hydration

P Juilland, E Gallucci, R Flatt, K Scrivener - Cement and Concrete …, 2010 - Elsevier
The early hydration of alite, in particular the reason for the onset of the induction period, has
been a subject of controversy for many decades. Several theories have been proposed …

Modeling and simulation of cement hydration kinetics and microstructure development

JJ Thomas, JJ Biernacki, JW Bullard, S Bishnoi… - Cement and concrete …, 2011 - Elsevier
Efforts to model and simulate the highly complex cement hydration process over the past
40years are reviewed, covering different modeling approaches such as single particle …

A physico-chemical basis for novel cementitious binders

EM Gartner, DE Macphee - Cement and Concrete Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The drive towards sustainability in construction is shaping our attitudes towards alternatives
to Portland cement. Although the cement and concrete industry is essentially sustainable …

Ultrathin, transferred layers of thermally grown silicon dioxide as biofluid barriers for biointegrated flexible electronic systems

H Fang, J Zhao, KJ Yu, E Song… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Materials that can serve as long-lived barriers to biofluids are essential to the development
of any type of chronic electronic implant. Devices such as cardiac pacemakers and cochlear …