The initial stages of cement hydration at the molecular level

X Xu, C Qi, XM Aretxabaleta, C Ma, D Spagnoli… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cement hydration is crucial for the strength development of cement-based materials;
however, the mechanism that underlies this complex reaction remains poorly understood at …

Hydration reactivity difference between dicalcium silicate and tricalcium silicate revealed from structural and Bader charge analysis

C Qi, X Xu, Q Chen - International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and …, 2022 - Springer
Cement hydration is the underlying mechanism for the strength development in cement-
based materials. The structural and electronic properties of calcium silicates should be …

Graphdiyne nanosheets as a sensing medium for formaldehyde and formic acid–A first-principles outlook

R Bhuvaneswari, JP Maria, V Nagarajan… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Formaldehyde and formic acid (in its vapor form) are considered as target vapors in the
current study, and the ability of graphdiyne nanosheet to detect target vapors is scrutinized …

Modeling of inert gas sensors using first principles methods

A Majid, B Khadim, M Alkhedher, S Haider… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The detection of inert gases is difficult due to their inactive nature, which makes the
preparation of the applicable gas sensor a challenging task. This work reports …

Dynamics of Energy Transfer between Nanoscale Aluminum/Aluminum Oxide Particles and Nitrogen Gas in the Noncontinuum Regime

J Thoudam, IJ Bayad, DS Sundaram - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The dynamics of energy transfer between aluminum/aluminum oxide nanoparticles and
nitrogen gas in the noncontinuum regime is investigated using a multiscale modeling …

Substrate‐Adatom Interface Engineering of Transition Metal Decorated Boron‐Doped Graphene Sheet for Enhanced Adsorption of Xe and Kr–A Systematic Ab initio …

A Pazhedath - Advanced Theory and Simulations, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient adsorption and segregation of Xe and Kr gases are of high importance in
commercial and nuclear industries. Systematic ab initio calculations reveal that transition …

Study of physisorption of aromatic molecules on hydroxylated α-SiO2 (0 0 1) surface using dispersion-corrected density functional theory

X Wang - Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, the interactions are investigated in a series of aromatic molecules adsorbed on
hydroxylated (0 0 1) surface of α-SiO 2 using density functional theory with dispersion …

Scaling and classification of ion-substrate interaction

K Zhou, Z Xu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021 - ACS Publications
The strength of ion-specific interaction with substrates usually demonstrates coverage
dependence, which is studied in this work with a focus on alkali (-earth) and transition-metal …

Ethylene adsorption on Ag (111), Rh (111) and Ir (111) by (meta)-GGA based density functional theory calculations

P Chen, B Zhang, X Gu, W Lic - Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate description of the adsorption process of reactants on metal surfaces from theory is
crucial for mechanistic understanding of activity and selectivity of metal catalysts, but it …

基于密度泛函理论的硅酸钙水化活性差异研究

齐冲冲, 徐新杭, 陈秋松 - International Journal of Minerals …, 2022 - ijmmm.ustb.edu.cn
中文摘要水泥水化是水泥基材料强度产生的根本原因. 通过阐明硅酸钙的结构特性和电子性质
可以揭示其水化活性的差异. 本文通过密度泛函理论对β-C 2 S 和M3-C 3 S 进行了综合比较 …