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Characterisation of cement hydrate phases by TEM, NMR and Raman spectroscopy

This paper was the result of an international collaboration that involved two of the world’s leading authorities on the use of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in mineralogy and cement science (R.J. Kirkpatrick, Michigan State University; J. Skibsted, Aarhus University). It is the first paper to demonstrate compositional heterogeneity in supposedly single-phase calcium silicate hydrates that had been synthesised by a standard technique (by a different group); this result has serious implications for the large number of studies where the homogeneity has not been checked.