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T1 Synchrotron Pair Distribution Function analyses of Ye’elimite-based pastes
A1 Cuesta-García, Ana María
A1 García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel
A1 Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel
A1 Gómez-de-la-Torre, María de los  Ángeles
A1 Zea-Garcia, Jesus D.
K1 Cristalografía
AB The study of nanocrystalline phase atomic ordering is intrinsically complicated. The presence of additional crystalline phase(s) exacerbates this challenge. Here, we use the synchrotron pair distribution function (PDF) to characterize the local atomic order of the nanocrystalline phases in ye’elimite-containing pastes. Here, a multi r-range analysis approach has been used, where the 30–50 Å r-range allows determining the crystalline phase contents and the 1.6-35 Å is used to characterize the atomic ordering in the nanocrystalline components. Quantitative phase contents have been also derived from these analyses. Specifically, we have prepared five stoichiometric ye’elimite pastes with variable anhydrite and water contents. For the pastes without anhydrite addition, ettringite was not present and two calcium aluminium monosulfate phases were required for good PDF fits. In addition to crystalline AFm (c =28.6 Å), a nanocrystalline AFm phase with a significantly smaller c-unit cell parameter value, c =26.8 Å, was required having about 60 Å of particle size. For a paste obtained with 31 wt% of anhydrite addition, the main crystalline phase was ettringite with the aluminium hydroxide having nano-gibbsite local structure with a quite small average particle size, =35 Å
YR 2018
FD 2018-10-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16612
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16612
LA eng
NO This work has been supported by Spanish MINECO through BIA2014-57658-C2 and BIA2017-82391-R, which are co-funded by FEDER. PDF experiment was performed at ID15A beamline of ESRF
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026