Publications by Thomas Matschei

Advances in hydration and thermodynamics of cementitious systems

Patrick Juilland, Karen Scrivener, Aslam Kunhi Mohamed, Thomas Matschei, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget

Optimising the hydration of cementitious materials is crucial to leverage their full potential and avoid wasting resources, embodied energy and CO2. Understanding the fundamental mechanisms is key to reach these objectives. In this paper, we review progres ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Impact of sodium gluconate on white cement-slag systems with Na2SO4

Karen Scrivener, Thomas Matschei, Berta Mota Gassó

Sodium gluconate has been shown to compensate the impact of alkalis on the long term strength development of cement pastes. This work studies the impact of sodium gluconate combined with Na2SO4 on the microstructural development of white cement-slag system ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Impact of NaOH and Na2SO4 on the kinetics and microstructural development of white cement hydration

Karen Scrivener, Thomas Matschei, Berta Mota Gassó

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Impact of water activity on the stability of ettringite

Karen Scrivener, Thomas Matschei

The stability of ettringite as function of temperature and water vapour pressure was studied on synthetic samples using X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, sorption balance measurements and different calorimetry techniques. Crystalline ettringit ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Hydration states of AFm cement phases

Karen Scrivener, Mahsa Saeidpour, Thomas Matschei

The AFm phase, one of the main products formed during the hydration of Portland and calcium aluminate cement based systems, belongs to the layered double hydrate (LDH) family having positively charged layers and water plus charge-balancing anions in the in ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

The influence of sodium salts and gypsum on alite hydration

Karen Scrivener, Thomas Matschei, Berta Mota Gassó

This work aims to clarify the impact of alkali and sulfate on the hydration kinetics and microstructural development of alite. The plain alite system is compared to systems with addition of: i) gypsum, ii) Na2SO4, iii) NaOH plus gypsum and iv) NaOH. In all ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Methods to determine hydration states of minerals and cement hydrates

Karen Scrivener, Mahsa Saeidpour, Thomas Matschei

This paper describes a novel approach to the quantitative investigation of the impact of varying relative humidity (RH) and temperature on the structure and thermodynamic properties of salts and crystalline cement hydrates in different hydration states (i. ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014