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IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 50(20), p. 502101, 2008

DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/50/502101

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Observation of dynamic crossover and dynamic heterogeneity in hydration water confined in aged cement paste

Journal article published in 2008 by Y. Zhang, M. Lagi, F. Ridi, E. Fratini ORCID, P. Baglioni, E. Mamontov, S. H. Chen
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Abstract

High resolution quasi-elastic neutron scattering is used to investigate the slow dynamics of hydration water confined in calcium silicate hydrate gel in an aged cement paste at supercooled temperatures. A super-Arrhenius to Arrhenius dynamic crossover of the average translational relaxation time 〈 τ 〉 as a function of the inverse temperature is observed at TL = 231 ± 5 K, which coincides with a prominent peak in the differential scanning calorimetry cooling scan. The dynamic susceptibility chiT(t) calculated using the experimentally determined temperature dependence of the self-intermediate scattering function shows direct evidence of the enhanced dynamic fluctuations and the associated growth in size of the dynamic heterogeneity in the confined water on approaching TL.