Hindered water motions in hardened cement pastes investigated over broad time and length scales

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2154-2162

  Bordallo, Heloisa N ^a   Aldridge, Laurence P ^b   Fouquet, Peter ^c   Pardo, Luis Carlos ^d,e   Unruh, Tobias ^f   Wuttke, Joachim ^e   Yokaichiya, Fabiano ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cement paste; magnetic relaxation; neutron scattering; pore structure; water diffusion; water dynamics

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING SPECTROMETERS; BULK WATER; CAPILLARY WATER; CEMENT PASTE; CONFINED WATER; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; ELASTIC SIGNALS; GEL PORES; HARDENED CEMENT PASTE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRATED CEMENT PASTES; LENGTH SCALE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOCAL NETWORKS; NEUTRON BACKSCATTERING; NEUTRON SPIN-ECHO SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SUPERCOOLED WATER; TEMPERATURE SCANS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETER; TIME-SCALES; WATER DIFFUSION; WATER DYNAMICS; WATER MOBILITY; WATER MOLECULE; WATER MOTION;

BACKSCATTERING; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; HARDENING; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRONS; PORE STRUCTURE; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

CEMENTS;

EID: 78449262846     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am900332n     Document Type: Article

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