Chemistry and Mass Density of Aluminum Hydroxide Gel in Eco- Cements by Ptychographic X‑ray Computed Tomography
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- 1. ALBA Synchrotron, Carrer de la Llum 2-26, E-08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
- 2. Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Universidad de Málaga, 29071-Málaga, Spain
- 3. Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI 5232, Switzerland
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Raw data for: Chemistry and Mass Density of Aluminum Hydroxide Gel in Eco- Cements by Ptychographic X‑ray Computed Tomography
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b10048
Eco-cements are a desirable alternative to ordinary Portland cements because of their lower CO2 footprints. Ye'elimite-based eco-cements are attracting a lot of interest but most of them exhibit relatively poor mechanical properties. Understanding the reasons for the low performances requires the characterization of features such as mass density of the hydrated mineralogical phases, including the amorphous gel, on the sub-micrometer scale which is very challenging. Here we use ptychographic X-ray computed tomography to provide 3D mass density and attenuation coefficient distributions of eco-cement pastes with an isotropic resolution close to 100 nm allowing to distinguish between mineralogical phases with very similar contrast. In combination with laboratory techniques such as the Rietveld method, 27Al MAS-NMR and electron microscopies, we report compositions and densities of key components. The ettringite and gel volume distributions have been mapped out in the segmented tomograms. Moreover, we discriminate between an aluminum hydroxide gel and calcium aluminum monosulfate, which have close electron density values. Specifically, the composition and mass density of two aluminum hydroxide gels have been determined: (CaO)0.04Al(OH)3·2.3H2O with 1.48(3) g∙cm-3 and (CaO)0.12Al(OH)3 with 2.05(3) g∙cm-3, which was a long standing challenge.
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