Publications related to Calcium chloride

Perspective Alkaline electrolyzers: Powering industries and overcoming fundamental challenges

For the sustainable development of the renewable hydrogen sector, alkaline electrolysis appears to be a technology of choice. Nevertheless, despite its long history that showed its reliability in the industrial field and despite the traditional belief from ...

Cell Press2024

Insights on chemical and physical chloride binding in blended cement pastes

Karen Scrivener, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson, Julien Nicolas Gonthier

This study investigates chloride binding in blended cement pastes exposed to 0.5 M NaCl solutions (with and without pH adjustment) using X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy image analysis (edxia). The aim is to better understand the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

SnSb binary alloy induced heterogeneous nucleation within the confined nanospace: Toward dendrite-free, flexible and energy/power dense sodium metal batteries

Dou Du, Yujie Liu

Rechargeable sodium (Na) metal batteries (SMBs) provide an alternative energy-dense, low-cost energy storage system beyond prevailing Li-ion technologies. However, their practical deployment requires the performance evaluation of Na anodes on the device le ...

ELSEVIER2021

Influence of pH on the chloride binding capacity of Limestone Calcined Clay Cements (LC3)

Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet

The high solution to solid ratio normally used for the measurement of chloride binding isotherms, leads to a leaching of ions and a decrease of pH. To make binding test more representative of on-site conditions, we investigated the influence of the increas ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

The Atomic-Level Structure of Cementitious Calcium Aluminate Silicate Hydrate

David Lyndon Emsley, Karen Scrivener, Paul Bowen, Pierrick Berruyer, Brennan James Walder, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Aslam Kunhi Mohamed, Jirawan Siramanont, Maya Nicole Harris, Mattia Negroni

Despite use of blended cements containing significant amounts of aluminum for over 30 years, the structural nature of aluminum in the main hydration product, calcium aluminate silicate hydrate (C-A-S-H), remains elusive. Using first-principles calculations ...

2020

Quantum Dynamics of H-2 and D-2 Confined in Hydrate Structures as a Function of Pressure and Temperature

Philippe Gillet, Richard Gaal, Livia Eleonora Bove Kado, Umbertoluca Ranieri

We present an extensive study of the quantum dynamics of molecular hydrogen trapped within the nanocavities of two hydrate structures at low temperatures, namely, clathrate structure II and filled ice structure Cl. By inelastic neutron scattering measureme ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Quantification methods for chloride binding in Portland cement and limestone systems

Karen Scrivener, Wei Sun, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson, Hamed Maraghechi, Shiyu Sui

This paper presents a comparison of methods to quantify the chloride binding capacity for cementitious materials composed of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and Limestone (LS, 0 to 55% replacement). Physical and chemical chloride bindings were investigated ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Rapid evaluation of bioactive Ti-based surfaces using an in vitro titration method

Paul Bowen, Jacques Lemaître, Weitian Zhao

The prediction of implant behavior in vivo by the use of easy-to-perform in vitro methods is of great interest in biomaterials research. Simulated body fluids (SBFs) have been proposed and widely used to evaluate the bone-bonding ability of implant materia ...

Springer2019

The underappreciated role of nonvolatile cations in aerosol ammonium-sulfate molar ratios

Athanasios Nenes, Hairun Guo

Overprediction of fine-particle ammonium-sulfate molar ratios (R) by thermodynamic models is suggested as evidence for interactions with organic constituents that inhibit the equilibration of gas-phase ammonia with aerosol sulfate and questions the equilib ...

Copernicus Publications2018

Effect of Ions and Admixtures on the Growth of Synthetic Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H)

Jirawan Siramanont

This thesis investigates the effect of different parameters such as Fe (III), D-gluconate and heterogeneous particles on the nucleation and growth of synthetic C-S-H by using the dropwise precipitation method. Firstly, the effect of Fe (III) on the synthet ...

EPFL2018

Microengineered Electrochemical Tools for in-situ Monitoring of Marine Environment

Marianna Fighera

Measuring the concentration of different compounds in aquatic ecosystem and understanding their impact on the environment are some of the main objectives in the environmental monitoring field. Trace metals, nutrients, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), bio ...

EPFL2017

Orientational ordering of water in extended hydration shells of cations is ion-specific and is correlated directly with viscosity and hydration free energy

Yixing Chen, Sylvie Roke, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Chung-Wen Liang

Specific ion effects in aqueous solutions are investigated at the molecular, nanoscopic and macroscopic levels. Femtosecond elastic second harmonic scattering (fs-ESHS) is used here to assess the chemical effects of ions on molecular and nanoscopic length ...

2017

Approximation numérique des écoulements turbulents dans des cuves d'électrolyse de l'aluminium

Jonathan Rochat

Aluminium is a metal extracted from bauxite ore using electrolysis process in cells of big size. A huge electric current goes in the cell through an electrolytic bath and aluminium liquid. These currents generate strong magnetic forces that allow the bath ...

EPFL2016

Effect of treatment on the microstructural characteristics of bio-improved sand

Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis

Bio-chemical processes have recently become the core of several studies in the geoengineering field, where the emphasis is placed on new and emerging applications. Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation has been introduced as an alternative cementation ...

IOS Press, 20152015

Critical influence of chloride ions on silver ion-mediated acute toxicity of silver nanoparticles to zebrafish embryos

Kristin Schirmer, Renata Behra

The toxicity of silver nanoparticles (AgNP) to aquatic organisms, including zebrafish (Danio rerio), has been demonstrated, but differing opinions exist on the contribution of the physical properties of the particles themselves and the free dissolved silve ...

Informa Healthcare2015

Toxicity of silver nanoparticles to a fish gill cell line: Role of medium composition

Kristin Schirmer, Laura Sigg, Renata Behra, Yang Yue

In aqueous solutions, silver nanoparticle (AgNP) behavior is affected by a variety of factors which lead to altered AgNP size and toxicity. Our research aims to explore the effect of media composition on citrate-coated AgNP (cit-AgNP) behavior and toxicity ...

Informa Healthcare2015

TC 238-SCM - hydration and microstructure of concrete with SCMs: State of the art on methods to determine degree of reaction of SCMs

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Ruben Anton Snellings

This paper is the work of working group 2 of the RILEM TC 238-SCM. Its purpose is to review methods to estimate the degree of reaction of supplementary cementitious materials in blended (or composite) cement pastes. We do not consider explicitly the wider ...

Springer2015

Incorporation of aluminium in calcium-silicate-hydrates

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Émilie Michèle L'Hôpital

Calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) was synthetized at 20 degrees C to investigate the effect of aluminium uptake (Al/Si = 0-0.33) in the presence and absence of alkalis on the composition and the solubility of a C-S-H with a Ca/Si equal to 1.0. C-S-H incorpo ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Neutral solar photo-Fenton degradation of 4-nitrophenol on iron-enriched hybrid montmorillonite-alginate beads (Fe-MABs)

César Pulgarin, Salvatore Barreca

Hybrid montmorillonite-alginate beads (MABs) were prepared by the ion-gelation method from alginate and montmorillonite clay suspension dropped in a calcium chloride solution. Similarly, iron-enriched beads (Fe-MABs) were prepared using iron-exchanged mont ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Investigation Regarding the Role of Chloride in Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites Obtained from Chloride Containing Precursors

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora

As the photovoltaic performance of a device is strongly influenced by the morphology of perovskite, achieving precise control over the crystal formation of organic-inorganic halide perovskites synthesized in the ambience of chloride ions has garnered much ...

American Chemical Society2014