کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4758108 | 1420404 | 2018 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- Calcium silicate hydrates with high calcium to silicate ratio could bind more chlorides.
- The aggregation of calcium ions and water molecules was observed in the interface, which is critical to chloride binding.
- Adsorption of chlorides was due to the attraction of calcium ions, including a strong interaction of ion pairs and a long-distance interaction.
Chloride transport in the gel pore determines the durability of concrete material. In this paper, experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation were utilized to systematically investigate chemical composition (calcium to silicate ratio C/S) influence on the transport and adsorption behavior of water, calcium and chloride ions confined in the nano-pores of calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H). The immersion experiments indicate C-S-H samples with higher C/S ratio have better chloride adsorption capability and the zeta potential measurements proved the calcium ions can determine the surface potential in the system and strongly affect the chloride adsorption. In the MD simulation, with increasing C/S ratio, the long surface silicate chains are broken to defective short chains that can provide more non-bridging oxygen sites to accumulate surface water molecules and calcium atoms. There existed strong spatial correlation between surface calcium and chloride ions in the radial distribution function patterns, which confirms that the surface calcium plays critical role in chloride adsorption. Furthermore, the interaction mechanism between calcium and chloride ions can be categorized into two parts, the stronger one caused by the formation of ionic pairs Ca-Cl (within 3Â Ã ), and the weaker interaction at larger distance (around 4-6Ã ). Therefore, high calcium concentration in the vicinity of surface contributes to stronger chloride adsorption, more Ca-Cl accumulation and longer resident time.
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Journal: Microporous and Mesoporous Materials - Volume 255, 1 January 2018, Pages 23-35