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The Effect of Curing Temperature on Early Hydration of Gray Cement Via Fast Field Cycling-NMR Relaxometry

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In the present work, we use fast field cycling (FFC) nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry to evaluate the influence introduced by the curing temperature on the hydration process of gray cement. The main advantage of FFC relaxometry as compared with other relaxation studies performed at a specific frequency is that it is sensitive to a wider range of molecular motions and better separates the surface and bulk contributions from the global measured relaxation rate. In the case of cement hydration, the relaxation process is dominated by the interaction of water protons with the paramagnetic centers located on the surface of cement grains. This allows us in the frame of a two-phase exchange model to monitor the temperature dependence of the transverse diffusional correlation time at the surface of cement grains. An increase of the surface diffusion coefficient of water molecules with the temperature was revealed. Another outcome is that the surface-to-volume ratio of capillary pores continuously increases during the early hydration and this process is strongly enhanced by rising the temperature.

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This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS–UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0238. Financial support by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation is also gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Physics and Chemistry, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Codruta Badea, Alexandra Pop & Ioan Ardelean

  2. Department of Technical Physics II/Polymer Physics, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684, Ilmenau, Germany

    Carlos Mattea & Siegfried Stapf

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Badea, C., Pop, A., Mattea, C. et al. The Effect of Curing Temperature on Early Hydration of Gray Cement Via Fast Field Cycling-NMR Relaxometry. Appl Magn Reson 45, 1299–1309 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-014-0565-z

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