In Situ Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Early Tricalcium Silicate Hydration
Abstract
The understanding and control of early hydration of tricalcium silicate (C3S) is of great importance to cement science and concrete technology. However, traditional characterization methods are incapable of providing morphological and spectroscopic information about in situ hydration at the nanoscale. Using soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, we report the changes in morphology and molecular structure of C3S at an early stage of hydration. In situ C3S hydration in a wet cell, beginning with induction (~1 h) and acceleration (~4 h) periods of up to ~8 h, was studied and compared with ex situ measurements in the deceleration period after 15 h of curing. Analysis of the near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure showed that the Ca binding energy and energy splitting of C3S changed rapidly in the early age of hydration and exhibited values similar to calcium silicate hydrate (C–S–H). The formation of C–S–H nanoseeds in the C3S solution and the development of a fibrillar C–S–H morphology on the C3S surface were visualized. Following this, silicate polymerization accompanied by C–S–H precipitation produced chemical shifts in the peaks of the main Si K edge and in multiple scattering. However, the silicate polymerization process did not significantly affect the Ca binding energy of C–S–H.
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- Hanyang Univ., Seoul (Korea)
- Tokyo Univ. of Science, Chiba (Japan)
- Univ. Autonoma de Chiapas, Chiapas (Mexico)
- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1413704
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1944
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; hydration; tricalcium silicate; C–S–H; kinetics; spectromicroscopy
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Bae, Sungchul, Kanematsu, Manabu, Hernandez-Cruz, Daniel, Moon, Juhyuk, Kilcoyne, David, and Monteiro, Paulo J. M. In Situ Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Early Tricalcium Silicate Hydration. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.3390/ma9120976.
Bae, Sungchul, Kanematsu, Manabu, Hernandez-Cruz, Daniel, Moon, Juhyuk, Kilcoyne, David, & Monteiro, Paulo J. M. In Situ Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Early Tricalcium Silicate Hydration. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9120976
Bae, Sungchul, Kanematsu, Manabu, Hernandez-Cruz, Daniel, Moon, Juhyuk, Kilcoyne, David, and Monteiro, Paulo J. M. Thu .
"In Situ Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Early Tricalcium Silicate Hydration". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9120976. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1413704.
@article{osti_1413704,
title = {In Situ Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Early Tricalcium Silicate Hydration},
author = {Bae, Sungchul and Kanematsu, Manabu and Hernandez-Cruz, Daniel and Moon, Juhyuk and Kilcoyne, David and Monteiro, Paulo J. M.},
abstractNote = {The understanding and control of early hydration of tricalcium silicate (C3S) is of great importance to cement science and concrete technology. However, traditional characterization methods are incapable of providing morphological and spectroscopic information about in situ hydration at the nanoscale. Using soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, we report the changes in morphology and molecular structure of C3S at an early stage of hydration. In situ C3S hydration in a wet cell, beginning with induction (~1 h) and acceleration (~4 h) periods of up to ~8 h, was studied and compared with ex situ measurements in the deceleration period after 15 h of curing. Analysis of the near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure showed that the Ca binding energy and energy splitting of C3S changed rapidly in the early age of hydration and exhibited values similar to calcium silicate hydrate (C–S–H). The formation of C–S–H nanoseeds in the C3S solution and the development of a fibrillar C–S–H morphology on the C3S surface were visualized. Following this, silicate polymerization accompanied by C–S–H precipitation produced chemical shifts in the peaks of the main Si K edge and in multiple scattering. However, the silicate polymerization process did not significantly affect the Ca binding energy of C–S–H.},
doi = {10.3390/ma9120976},
journal = {Materials},
number = 12,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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