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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Shirani, Shiva author Cuesta-García, Ana María author Morales-Cantero, Alejandro author Santacruz-Cruz, María Isabel author Díaz, Ana author Trtik, Pavel author Holler, Mirko author Rack, Alexander author Lukic, Bratislav author Brun, Emmanuel author Salcedo, Inés R. author García-Aranda, Miguel Ángel author 2023-05-08 Despite a century of research, our understanding of cement dissolution and precipitation processes at early ages is very limited. This is due to the lack of methods that can image these processes with enough spatial resolution, contrast and field of view. Here, we adapt near-field ptychographic nanotomography to in situ visualise the hydration of commercial Portland cement in a record-thick capillary. At 19 h, porous C-S-H gel shell, thickness of 500 nm, covers every alite grain enclosing a water gap. The spatial dissolution rate of small alite grains in the acceleration period, ∼100 nm/h, is approximately four times faster than that of large alite grains in the deceleration stage, ∼25 nm/h. Etch-pit development has also been mapped out. This work is complemented by laboratory and synchrotron microtomographies, allowing to measure the particle size distributionswith time. 4D nanoimagingwill allow mechanistically study dissolution-precipitation processes including the roles of accelerators and superplasticizers. Shirani, Shiva & Cuesta, Ana & Morales, Alejandro & Santacruz, Isabel & Diaz, Ana & Trtik, Pavel & Holler, Mirko & Rack, Alexander & Lukić, Bratislav & Brun, Emmanuel & Salcedo, Inés & Aranda, Miguel. (2023). 4D nanoimaging of early age cement hydration. Nature Communications. 14. 10.1038/s41467-023-38380-1 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26546 10.1038/s41467-023-38380-1 Cemento Portland Sistemas de imágenes Cristalografía por rayos Tomografía 4D nanoimaging of early age cement hydration.