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Pore solution investigations of cement pastes which had been prepared with the addition of ethanolamine showed that the ethanolamine had not been bound by cement during hydration and remained more or less completely dissolved in the capillary water, which can (theoretically) be expressed. This suggests that no significant binding of ethanolamine had occurred, neither chemically nor by way of adsorption and that the physically bound water (gel water) could not act as a solvent for the ethanolamine. The latter seems to be in contrast to the frost theory according to which a part of the gel water is mobile [M. Setzer, Micro ice lens formation, in: M.J. Setzer (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Bolomey Workshop “Pore Solution in Hardened Cement Paste”, University of Essen, June 1998, AEDIFICATIO Publishers, Freiburg, 2000, pp. 89–112]. This shows that a better understanding of structural details in the nanometer range of hardened cement is necessary. Therefore, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments were performed to study this part of the structure using C3S. SANS studies allow a nondestructive description of statistically representative microstructures in the scale range from micrometer to nanometer. In contrast to the established methods for microstructural investigations like MIP or BET, nondried samples can be used. Moreover, the scattering signals can be analyzed in a variety of ways, and therefore, a more detailed insight can be provided into the very complex cement paste microstructure. In this study, the signals were evaluated with respect to the specific inner surface and the particle-size distribution in the investigated nanometer range up to ∼100 nm. |
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