The secret of nanoparticle packing in cement

A research group partly financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation has been researching the perfect composition of Portland cement.

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The First Seconds in a Building’s Life

Highly dynamic hydration processes that occur during the first seconds of cement hydration have been studied by time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction.

X-ray diffraction studies show cement hydration on the millisecond scale.

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