1
|
Li H, Zheng YH, Gates WP, Villacorta FJ, Ohira-Kawamura S, Kawakita Y, Ikeda K, Bordallo HN. Role of Exchange Cations and Layer Charge on the Dynamics of Confined Water. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:261-270. [PMID: 38135662 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
Abstract
Describing the dynamic behavior of water confined in clay minerals is a fascinating challenge and crucial in many research areas, ranging from materials science and geotechnical engineering to environmental sustainability. Water is the most abundant resource on Earth, and the high reactivity of naturally occurring hydrous clay minerals used since prehistoric times for a variety of applications means that water-clay interaction is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. We have attempted to experimentally distinguish the rotational dynamics and translational diffusion of two distinct populations of interlayer water, confined and ultraconfined, in the sodium (Na) forms of two smectite clay minerals, montmorillonite (Mt) and hectorite (Ht). Samples hydrated at a pseudo one-layer hydration (1LH) state under ambient conditions were studied with quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) between 150 and 300 K. Using a simplified revised jump-diffusion and rotation-diffusion model (srJRM), we observed that while interlayer water near the ditrigonal cavity in Ht forms strong H-bonds to both adjacent surface O and structural OH, H-bonding of other more prevalent interlayer water with the surface O is weaker compared to Mt, inducing a higher temperature for dynamical changes of confined water. Given the lower layer charge and faster dynamics observed for Ht compared to Mt, we consider this strong evidence confirming the influence of the interlayer cation and surfaces on confined water dynamics.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Hua Li
- Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
| | - Yin-Hao Zheng
- Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
| | - Will P Gates
- Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Melbourne-Burwood, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
| | - F J Villacorta
- ESS-Bilbao, Parque Científico y Tecnológico Bizkaia Nave 201, 48170 Zamudio, Spain
| | | | - Yukinobu Kawakita
- Neutron Science Section, MLF Division, J-PARC Center, Tokai 319-1106, Japan
| | - Kazutaka Ikeda
- Neutron Science Section, MLF Division, J-PARC Center, Tokai 319-1106, Japan
- Neutron Industrial Application Promotion Center, CROSS, 203-1 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
| | - Heloisa N Bordallo
- The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Chen Y, Chen M, Tong X, Wang S, Kang X. Molecular insights into the interactions between chloride liquids and C−S−H nanopore surfaces under electric field-induced transport. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
|
3
|
Nanotechnology in Cement-Based Materials: A Review of Durability, Modeling, and Advanced Characterization. NANOMATERIALS 2019; 9:nano9091213. [PMID: 31466289 PMCID: PMC6780866 DOI: 10.3390/nano9091213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
In the context of increasing applications of various nanomaterials in construction, this work reviews the renewed knowledge of nanotechnology in cement-based materials, focusing on the relevant papers published over the last decade. The addition of nanomaterials in cement-based materials, associated with their dispersion in cement composites, is explored to evaluate their effects on the resistance of cement-based materials to physical deteriorations, chemical deteriorations, and rebar corrosion. This review also examines the proposed nanoscale modeling of interactions between admixed nanomaterials and cement hydration products. At last, the recent progress of advanced characterization that employs techniques to characterize the properties of cement-based materials at the nanoscale is summarized.
Collapse
|
4
|
Le P, Fratini E, Chen SH. Hydration-dependent dynamics of water in calcium-silicate-hydrate: A QENS study by global model. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2018; 168:187-192. [PMID: 29409715 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Revised: 12/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/20/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
HYPOTHESIS In a saturated cement paste, there are three different types of water: the structural water chemically reacted with cement, the constrained water absorbed to the surface of the pores, and the free water in the center of the pores. Each type has different physicochemical state and unique relation to cement porosity. The different water types have different dynamics which can be detected using quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS). Since the porosity of a hardened cement paste is impacted strongly by the water to cement ratio (w/c), it should be possible to extract the hydration dependence of the pores by exploiting the dynamical parameters of the confined water. EXPERIMENTS Three C-S-H samples with different water levels, 8%, 17% and 30% were measured using QENS. The measurements were carried out in the scattering vector, Q, range from 0.5 Å-1 to 1.3 Å-1, and in the temperature interval from 230 K to 280 K. The data were analyzed using a novel global model developed for cement QENS spectra. FINDINGS The results show that while increasing the water content, the structural water index (SWI) decreases and the confining radius, a, increases. Both SWI and a have a linear relationship with the water content. The Arrhenius plot of the translational relaxation time shows that the constrained water dominates the non-structural water at water contents lower than 17%. The rotational activation energy is smaller for lower water content. The analysis demonstrated that our newly proposed global model is practical and useful for analyzing cement QENS data.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Peisi Le
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
| | - Emiliano Fratini
- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and CSGI, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence I-50019, Italy
| | - Sow-Hsin Chen
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
5
|
Le P, Fratini E, Ito K, Wang Z, Mamontov E, Baglioni P, Chen SH. Dynamical behaviors of structural, constrained and free water in calcium- and magnesium-silicate-hydrate gels. J Colloid Interface Sci 2016; 469:157-163. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2015] [Revised: 01/25/2016] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
|
6
|
Characteristic features of water dynamics in restricted geometries investigated with quasi-elastic neutron scattering. Chem Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2015.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
|
7
|
Li H, Zhang LL, Yi Z, Fratini E, Baglioni P, Chen SH. Translational and rotational dynamics of water contained in aged Portland cement pastes studied by quasi-elastic neutron scattering. J Colloid Interface Sci 2015; 452:2-7. [PMID: 25898172 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Revised: 04/03/2015] [Accepted: 04/03/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
|
8
|
Diallo SO, Vlcek L, Mamontov E, Keum JK, Chen J, Hayes JS, Chialvo AA. Translational diffusion of water inside hydrophobic carbon micropores studied by neutron spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:022124. [PMID: 25768475 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.022124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
When water molecules are confined to nanoscale spacings, such as in the nanometer-size pores of activated carbon fiber (ACF), their freezing point gets suppressed down to very low temperatures (∼150K), leading to a metastable liquid state with remarkable physical properties. We have investigated the ambient pressure diffusive dynamics of water in microporous Kynol ACF-10 (average pore size ∼11.6Å, with primarily slit-like pores) from temperature T=280 K in its stable liquid state down to T=230 K into the metastable supercooled phase. The observed characteristic relaxation times and diffusion coefficients are found to be, respectively, higher and lower than those in bulk water, indicating a slowing down of the water mobility with decreasing temperature. The observed temperature-dependent average relaxation time 〈τ〉 when compared to previous findings indicate that it is the width of the slit pores-not their curvature-that primarily affects the dynamics of water for pore sizes larger than 10 Å. The experimental observations are compared to complementary molecular dynamics simulations of a model system, in which we studied the diffusion of water within the 11.6 Å gap of two parallel graphene sheets. We find generally a reasonable agreement between the observed and calculated relaxation times at the low momentum transfer Q(Q≤0.9Å(-1)). At high Q, however, where localized dynamics becomes relevant, this ideal system does not satisfactorily reproduce the measurements. Consequently, the simulations are compared to the experiments at low Q, where the two can be best reconciled. The best agreement is obtained for the diffusion parameter D associated with the hydrogen-site when a representative stretched exponential function, rather than the standard bimodal exponential model, is used to parametrize the self-correlation function I(Q,t).
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- S O Diallo
- Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
| | - L Vlcek
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA
| | - E Mamontov
- Chemical and Engineering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
| | - J K Keum
- Instrument and Source Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
| | - Jihua Chen
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
| | - J S Hayes
- American Technical Trading, Incorporated, P.O. Box 273, Pleasantville, New York 10570, USA
| | - A A Chialvo
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA
| |
Collapse
|
9
|
Qomi MJA, Bauchy M, Ulm FJ, Pellenq RJM. Anomalous composition-dependent dynamics of nanoconfined water in the interlayer of disordered calcium-silicates. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:054515. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4864118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
|