Magnesia-Based Cements: A Journey of 150 Years, and Cements for the Future?

By S. Walling, J. Provis. Chemical Reviews, 2016

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This review examines the detailed chemical insights that have been generated through 150 years of work worldwide on magnesium-based inorganic cements, with a focus on both scientific and patent literature. Magnesium carbonate, phosphate, silicate-hydrate, and oxysalt (both chloride and sulfate) cements are all assessed. Many such cements are ideally suited to specialist applications in precast construction, road repair, and other fields including nuclear waste immobilization. The majority of MgO-based cements are more costly to produce than Portland cement because of the relatively high cost of reactive sources of MgO and do not have a sufficiently high internal pH to passivate mild steel reinforcing bars. This precludes MgO-based cements from providing a large-scale replacement for Portland cement in the production of steel-reinforced concretes for civil engineering applications, despite the potential for CO2 emissions reductions offered by some such systems. Nonetheless, in uses that do not require steel reinforcement, and in locations where the MgO can be sourced at a competitive price, a detailed understanding of these systems enables their specification, design, and selection as advanced engineering materials with a strongly defined chemical basis.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of cements (2019, methodology): “produced from MgO and silica fume via hydrothermal or ambienttemperature processes [288e292], and generally comprise a talclike or serpentine-like phase [141,293], although there remains some debate around the most appropriate structural model for M-”