Tracking setting dynamics of portland cement at reduced and elevated temperatures

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Cements remain the most commonly used materials worldwide. Portland cement is the worlds most widely manufactured material, yet remains one of the most complex and least understood systems,particularly at the atomic level. Building upon our recent success with tracking setting dynamics of dental cement with VESUVIO, we look to further resolve NCS profiles in portland and novel geopolymer cements. Preliminary NCS measurements of portland cement at 300K shows similar oscilatory trend to the dental cement. To further resolve these trends we propose to track the setting at higher and lower temperatures to resolve its role on atomic-cohesion (bonding). Concurrent prompt gamma activation analyses (PGAA) and novel electrical measurements (of dopant ions) will provide complementary information, whilst helping evolve the scope of simultaneous techniques available on the VESUVIO experiment setup.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84779136
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84779136
Provenance
Creator Dr Kun Tian; Dr Giovanni Romanelli; Miss Laura Arcidiacono; Professor Neville Greaves; Dr Gregory Chasse; Dr David Farrar; Mr Fu Song; Miss Manjit Kaur; Mr Mustafa Mahmoud
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-20T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-25T09:00:00Z