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SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Sanchez J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7476014 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200813 16
Calcium carbonate cements have been synthesized by mixing amorphous calcium carbonate and vaterite powders with water to form a cement paste and study how mechanical strength is created during the setting reaction. In-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to monitor the transformation of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) and vaterite phases into calcite and a rotational rheometer was used to monitor the strength evolution. There are two characteristic timescales of the strengthening of the cemen ...[more]