RT Journal Article
T1 Recent studies of cements and concretes by synchrotron radiation crystallographic and cognate methods
A1 García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel
K1 Cemento
K1 Sincrotones
AB The portfolio of available synchrotron radiation techniques is increasing notably for cementsand pastes. Furthermore, sometimes the terminology is confusing and an overall picture highlightingsimilarities and differences of related techniques was lacking. Therefore, the mainobjective of this work is to review recent advances in synchrotron techniques providing acomprehensive overview. This work is not intended to gather all publications in cement chemistrybut to give a unified picture through selected examples. Crystallographic techniques areused for structure determination, quantitative phase analyses and microstructure characterization.These studies are not only carried out in standard conditions but synchrotron techniquesare especially suited to non-ambient conditions: high temperatures and pressures, hydration,etc., and combinations. Related crystallographic techniques, like Pair Distribution Function,are being used for the analysis of ill-crystalline phase(s). Furthermore, crystallographic toolsare also employed in imaging techniques including scanning diffraction microscopy andtomography and coherent diffraction imaging. Other synchrotron techniques are also reviewedincluding X-rays absorption spectroscopy for local structure and speciation characterizations;small angle X-ray scattering for microstructure analysis and several imaging techniques formicrostructure quantification: full-field soft and hard X-ray nano-tomographies; scanninginfrared spectro-microscopy; scanning transmission and fluorescence X-ray tomographies.Finally, a personal outlook is provided.
PB Taylon & Francis
SN 0889-311X
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/13631
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/13631
LA eng
NO Crystallogr. Rev. 2016, 22, 150−196
NO I am grateful to all my coauthors, collaborators, colleagues and PhD students, for all our work togetherduring more than two decades. I thank the University of Malaga and ALBA Synchrotron Light Sourcefor the support and the stirring environments. I acknowledge the Spanish science funding agencies (they change the name quite often) for funding my studentship, to do the PhD and the three summer researchstays at Oxford University, to the last ongoing research project. To all synchrotrons I have been allowed toenjoy carrying out experiments: SRS, ESRF, Max-Lab, DLS, APS, SLS and ALBA. Finally, this work hasbeen supported by the Spanish MINECO through the BIA2014-57658-C2-1-R research grant.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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