Advances in understanding hydration of Portland cement

Cemented paste backfill for mineral tailings management: Review and future perspectives

Advances in understanding cement hydration mechanisms

Research review of cement clinker chemistry

Hybrid materials based on layered double hydroxides (LDHs) exhibit great potential in diverse fields such as health care, polymer composites, environment, catalysis, and energy generation. Indeed, the compositional flexibility and the scalability of LDH structures, their low cost, and their ease of synthesis have made hybrid LDHs extremely attractive for constructing smart and high-performance multifunctional materials. This review provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the current research on multifunctional hybrid LDHs. Organic–inorganic hybrid LDHs, intercalated and surface-immobilized structures, are both specifically addressed. The new trends and strategies for hybrid LDH synthesis are first described, and then the potential of the latest hybrid LDHs, polymer LDH nanocomposites, and LDH bio-nanocomposites are presented. Significant achievements published from ≈2010, including authors' results, which employ hybrid LDH assemblies in materials science, medicine, polymer nanocomposites, cement chemistry, and environmental technologies, are specifically addressed. It is concluded with remarks on present challenges and future prospects.

Tailoring Hybrid Layered Double Hydroxides for the Development of Innovative Applications

Calcium complexation and cluster formation as principal modes of action of polymers used as superplasticizer in cement systems

Alite dissolution and C-S-H precipitation rates during hydration

Dissolution rates during the early hydration of tricalcium silicate

Early hydration and microstructure formation of Portland cement paste studied by oscillation rheology, isothermal calorimetry, 1H NMR relaxometry, conductance and SAXS

Analysis of the surface of tricalcium silicate during the induction period by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

T. Sowoidnich

Papers

Calcium complexation and cluster formation as principal modes of action of polymers used as superplasticizer in cement systems

Alite dissolution and C-S-H precipitation rates during hydration

Dissolution rates during the early hydration of tricalcium silicate

Early hydration and microstructure formation of Portland cement paste studied by oscillation rheology, isothermal calorimetry, 1H NMR relaxometry, conductance and SAXS

Analysis of the surface of tricalcium silicate during the induction period by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy