Design and synthesis of macrocyclic ligands for specific interaction with crystalline ettringite and demonstration of a viable mechanism for the setting of cement

JLW Griffin, PV Coveney

Index: Griffin, Jonathan L. W.; Coveney, Peter V.; Whiting, Andrew; Davey, Roger Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 2, 1999 , # 10 p. 1973 - 1981

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Abstract

Cementitious materials are among those most widely used by mankind while being among the least well understood. The detailed physicochemical processes involved in the hydration and setting of cement slurries are very complex, and a clearly defined quantitative account is still lacking; indeed, even the composition of the cement powder itself is not known exactly. Still less has there been any understanding of the mechanism by which numerous known ...