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Dissolution kinetics of cubic tricalcium aluminate measured by digital holographic microscopy Alexander Sebastian Brand, and Jeffery W. Bullard Langmuir, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02400 • Publication Date (Web): 25 Aug 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on September 4, 2017

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Dissolution kinetics of cubic tricalcium aluminate measured by digital

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holographic microscopy

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Alexander S. Brand1* and Jeffrey W. Bullard1

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Materials and Structural Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg,

Maryland 20899, USA; Electronic addresses: [email protected] and [email protected] *

Corresponding author

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ABSTRACT

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In situ digital holographic microscopy is used to characterize the dissolution flux of

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polycrystalline cubic tricalcium aluminate (C3A-c). The surface dissolves at rates that vary

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considerably with time and spatial location. This implies a statistical distribution of fluxes, but an

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approximately steady-state median rate was obtained by using flowing solutions and by reducing

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the water activity in the solution. The dissolution flux from highly crystalline C3A-c depends on

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the water activity raised to an empirically-derived exponent of 5.2, and extrapolates to a median

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flux of −2.1 µmol m−2 s−1 in pure water with an interquartile range of 3.2 µmol m−2 s−1. The flux

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from a less crystalline source of C3A-c has an empirical water activity exponent of 4.6 and an

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extrapolated median flux of only −1.4 µmol m−2 s−1 in pure water with an interquartile range of

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1.9 µmol m−2 s−1. These data suggest that the bulk dissolution rate of C3A-c can vary by at least

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30 % from one source to another and that variability in the local rate within a single material is

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even greater because of the heterogeneous spatial distribution of structural characteristics (i.e.,

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degree of crystallinity, chemical impurities, and defects).

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Keywords: digital holographic microscopy, tricalcium aluminate, dissolution, rate spectra,

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surface reactivity

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1. INTRODUCTION The ability to predict the rate of hydration and development of properties in cement

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binders is a long-standing goal of concrete research. Computational materials science models of

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cement hydration have demonstrated the ability to provide accurate calculations of engineering

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properties based on the microstructural state of the binder. However, accurately predicting the

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rate of change in microstructure has proven to be extremely difficult, in part because the initial 1

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binder material is inherently variable in its composition and reactivity, but primarily because

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there are significant gaps in a quantitative understanding of the basic mechanisms that govern the

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reactions of the solid binder components with water. Any microstructural model rooted in the

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basic physics and chemistry of materials will require input of the details of the binder’s starting

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mineralogical composition, particle size distribution, and basic thermodynamic and kinetic

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properties of the reactions being simulated, including the dissolution rate laws and constants of

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individual cementitious minerals.1,2

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Substantial progress has been made in characterizing the fundamental dissolution rates

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and mechanisms of some minerals, especially calcite and gypsum, which are minority

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components of portland cement. Much of the recent progress has involved monitoring nanoscale

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changes in surface topography with vertical scanning interferometry (VSI) and atomic force

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microscopy (AFM).3 Measurements of the dissolution rates of tricalcium silicate (Ca3SiO5, or

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C3S)4 and dicalcium silicate (Ca2SiO4, or C2S)4 in various aqueous solutions also have been

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reported in the last several years using bulk powder methods,5–8 and VSI observations of surface

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topography changes have characterized the dissolution behavior of C3S9,10 and calcium silicate

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hydrate (C–S–H).11 AFM has also been used to observe C–S–H growth on alite12 and to

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characterize cement clinker hydration.13,14 Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has also been

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used to infer a dissolution rate of C3S via ex situ measurement of the dissolved surface area.15

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More recently, holographic interferometry techniques have been used to study the dissolution

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kinetics of hardened cement paste under acid attack,16 while digital holographic microscopy

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(DHM) has been used to examine minerals important to cements.17,18

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Tricalcium aluminate (Ca3Al2O6, or C3A)4 is a key component of portland cement clinker

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and is commonly found in cubic form (C3A-c).19 It is usually present in much smaller

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proportions than C3S and C2S, but it nevertheless has an important influence on early hydration

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reactions, enthalpy release, and strength development. The reactivity of C3A with water is so

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great that it can induce rapid precipitation of calcium aluminate hydrates that lead to flash setting

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unless calcium sulfate is added to mitigate the rate of reaction.19 In fact, an important part of

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concrete mixture design is the determination of the optimum mass fraction of calcium sulfate to

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include to properly regulate C3A hydration.20 A wide range of techniques have been used to

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characterize the C3A reactions in water, such as environmental scanning electron microscopy,21

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X-ray transmission microscopy,22,23 in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction,24–26 X-ray adsorption 2


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spectroscopy,27 nuclear magnetic resonance,28 and solution ionic concentration measurement,29,30

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but no measurements have reported the net dissolution flux from C3A in aqueous solutions.

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Therefore, the objective of this study is to experimentally characterize the dissolution flux of

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C3A and to estimate the form of the dissolution rate equation by in situ monitoring of the

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nanoscale surface topography evolution in real time.

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1.1 Dissolution Kinetics of C3A 18-

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The crystal structure of C3A-c features closed rings of six aluminate tetrahedra, Al6 O18 ,

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with the aluminum ions located near the corners of the cubic structure,19,31,32 and each aluminate

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tetrahedron has two nonbridging oxygens (NBOs).31 The high electronegativity of the aluminum

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relative to calcium gives a substantial covalent character to the Al−O bond, while the bonds

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between the nine calcium atoms and the NBOs in the aluminate ring has more significant ionic

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character.

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As in most double oxides, like the other portland cement clinker phases, dissolution of

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C3A involves an initial step of protonation of the apical NBOs of the aluminate tetrahedra.32–34 In

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neutral or basic solutions, the proton can be donated by a water molecule, leaving behind a

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hydroxyl ion. Considering a formula unit as three calcium atoms plus one third of the aluminate

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ring, with the corresponding formula Ca3Al2O6, this elementary protonation step can be written 3Ca Al O + H O → 3Ca Al O OH + .

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This step occurs repeatedly to protonate the other NBOs, and, on average, releases one calcium

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atom for every two hydroxyls produced: 3Ca Al O OH + H O → 2Ca Al O (OH) + Ca + OH .

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The fate of the “released” calcium ion is not immediately clear; it likely could be released from

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the solid and immediately directly complexed by a hydration shell of six water molecules,35,36 Ca + 6 H O → Ca(H O)

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which could escape into the bulk solution, remain within the electrical double layer near the

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surface, or be adsorbed as an outer-sphere complex.27,37,38 Alternatively, as proposed by Mishra

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et al.,32 each released calcium may condense with two liberated hydroxyl ions to form an

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amorphous calcium hydroxide layer at the surface, Ca + 2 OH → Ca(OH) (am).

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Any such amorphous layer should be unstable with respect to dissociation, since the adjacent

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solution is significantly undersaturated with respect to even crystalline calcium hydroxide

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(portlandite), with saturation corresponding to about 20 mmol L−1 in pure water at 298 K.19

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However, such a layer might be kinetically favored if the hydroxyls are locally available because

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the full hydration of calcium requires coordination with six additional water molecules.

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When NBOs of the aluminate tetrahedra have been protonated, further attack by the water

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on the bridging oxygens can decouple one or more of the aluminate tetrahedra simultaneously

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from the ring structure. For example, two water molecules could attack each of the two bridging

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oxygens of one aluminate group to produce a fully protonated Al(OH) 4 ion and releasing the

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remaining calcium atom that is ionically bonded to that part of the ring: Ca Al O (OH) + 2 H O → 2 Al(OH) + Ca .

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As suggested by this discussion, the exact sequence of steps involved in C3A dissolution is

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difficult to determine with certainty, and the ordering of the steps may even be subject to some

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statistical fluctuation. Identifying a rate-controlling step is also difficult, although the superficial

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protonation of the apical NBOs likely can be ruled out as being rate controlling. If one of the

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steps could be identified as rate-controlling, then all the other steps before and after would be

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near equilibrium, and the rate equation for dissolution could be written exactly according to

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transition state theory.39,40

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In the absence of more certain knowledge of the reaction sequence and the ratecontrolling step, the overall reaction for C3A still can be written as Ca Al O + 6 H O → 3 Ca + 2 Al(OH) + 4 OH ,

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and one must be satisfied with an empirical rate equation for the overall process. Under the

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experimental conditions used in this paper, where rapidly flowing water over the solid surface

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removes the product ions as much as possible, the reaction should proceed almost entirely in the

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forward direction and without precipitation of a secondary or intermediate solid, in which case

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the empirical rate equation far from equilibrium is written as a power function of the reactant

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concentrations or activities.39 For C3A the empirical rate equation is *

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where JC3A is the dissolution flux (mol m−2 s−1), k′+ is the overall rate constant (mol s−1), CC3A is

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the concentration of reactive sites on the C3A surface (m−2), aH2O is the activity of water at the

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Writing the rate equation as in (7) presupposes that there is only one type of reactive site

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at the surface and that its reactivity is the same everywhere it is found on the surface. However,

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there are several types of reactive sites on a given crystalline surface. In addition, the actual

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reactivity of a given site depends on its molecular identity, its local structural configuration (i.e.,

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terrace, ledge, or kink site), and the effects of nearby structural defects that introduce lattice

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strain energy, such as dislocation outcroppings, stacking faults, grain boundaries, vacancies, or

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chemical impurities. Therefore, a distribution of site types and reactivity will typically present at

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a surface.41

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These atomic-scale structural details usually are not known in advance, nor can the

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introduction of a single term like CC3A in the overall rate equation capture their influence. As an

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alternative, one often measures the total surface area of the solid and assumes it to be

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proportional to the surface concentration of reaction sites. The variability of sites and their

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reactivities are then contained within a local rate constant. In that case, Eq. (7) is recast as *

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where now k+ has units of molar flux. In bulk dissolution experiments using rotating disks or

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dilute granular suspensions, one generally assumes that dissolution occurs uniformly over the

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entire surface area, so that a globally averaged rate constant in recovered. However, topographic

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methods like VSI, AFM, and DHM can track the surface retreat from point to point on a surface.

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When these methods are used, the range of local dissolution fluxes can be measured, both in

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terms of point to point flux variability on a given surface,17,18,41–48 and in terms of temporal flux

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variability at a given point on a surface17,18 as defects are annihilated or uncovered by the

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dissolution process.

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This paper assumes that Eq. (8) empirically describes the dissolution flux from several

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polycrystalline C3A surfaces prepared by solid state sintering. Local in situ dissolution rates are

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tracked in real time by DHM using flowing solutions in which the water activity is

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systematically varied by ethanol additions. The statistical distribution of local rate constants is

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measured and related to the presence and evolution of surface defects. Both the spatially

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averaged rate constant, k+, and the activity exponent, n, are estimated by regression of the flux

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data to quantitatively determine the empirical rate equation.

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2. EXPERIMENTAL SECTION

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2.1 Materials

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Two sources of laboratory-synthesized C3A, varying primarily in the abundance of

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amorphous material, were evaluated in this study. The first source, termed hereafter “C3A #1”, in

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this study was produced by Mineral Research Processing (Meyzieu, France).49 Elemental

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analysis by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) yielded mass

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fractions (with standard deviations) of 64.6 % ± 1.2 % CaO and 35.4 % ± 0.6 % Al2O3, so the

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molar ratio CaO:Al2O3 is 3.3. C3A #1 was provided as nodules, which were ground and

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micronized prior to sample preparation.

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The second source, termed hereafter “C3A #2”, was produced by Construction

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Technology Laboratories (Skokie, Illinois, USA).49 This source was provided as a powder and

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exhibited evidence of some prehydration (i.e., hydrogarnet and portlandite), so the powder was

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heated to 500 °C to dehydrate prior to micronizing for sample preparation. Elemental analysis by

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ICP-OES yielded mass fractions of 64.4 % ± 1.1 % CaO and 35.6 % ± 1.0 % Al2O3,

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corresponding to the molar ratio CaO:Al2O3 = 3.3.

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In keeping with some other topographic analyses of mineral surfaces,50 the nominally flat

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sample surface required for DHM examination was produced by solid state sintering and

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polishing of a cylindrical powder compact. The pellets were 13 mm in diameter and uniaxially

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compressed at approximately 170 MPa, with a small volume of ethanol mixed in to act as a

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compaction aid. The samples were sintered by heating at 10 °C min−1 to 1500 °C, holding

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constant at 1500 °C for 8 h, and finally cooling at 2 °C min−1 to 30 °C. The sintered samples

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were mounted onto titanium stubs and the surface was polished using silicon carbide (grits of

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400, 600, 800, and 1200), diamond paste (3 µm and 0.25 µm), and alumina (0.05 µm) with

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propylene glycol as lubricant.

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Powder samples before and after sintering were micronized and examined with X-ray

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diffraction (XRD) using rutile as an internal standard. Phase abundances determined by Rietveld

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refinement are shown in Table 1. The compositions are consistent with other reports of synthetic

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C3A,51,52 which typically contains 1 % to 2.5 % free lime and some amorphous content. The

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calcite content of C3A #2 before sintering could have been produced by initial heat treatment at

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500 °C to remove its prehydration products, which transformed the free lime content to calcite by

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reaction with ambient CO2 in the furnace atmosphere. A stoichiometric balance implies that C3A 6


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#2 had a free lime content of about 2.2 % before sintering. The higher-temperature sintering

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treatment caused all the calcite to decompose back to free lime. Some mayenite (C12A7) was

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found in both C3A sources but was either totally or substantially transformed by sintering in C3A

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#1 and C3A #2, respectively. C3A #2 has more than twice the amorphous content of C3A #1 both

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before and after sintering. No other crystalline calcium aluminate phases (e.g., orthorhombic

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C3A, monocalcium aluminate) were detected by XRD.

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Table 1. Mass Fraction Composition (%) of C3A by Rietveld Analysis with an Internal Standard C3A #1 C3A #2 Before Sintering After Sintering Before Sintering After Sintering C3A-c 89.7 ± 0.3 94.2 ± 0.3 74.5 ± 0.4 84.3 ± 0.3 Free Lime 2.2 ± 0.2 2.0 ± 0.2 N/A 1.0 ± 0.2 Calcite N/A N/A 4.0 ± 0.3 N/A Mayenite 4.3 ± 0.3 N/A 5.0 ± 0.3 4.6 ± 0.3 Amorphous Content 3.8 ± 0.7 3.8 ± 0.7 16.5 ± 0.7 10.1 ± 0.6 Note: the uncertainty represents the average standard error of regression from Rietveld refinement Phase

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2.2 Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) The DHM utilized in this study was a Lyncée Tec Model R-2203 (Lausanne,

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Switzerland).49 Additional instrument details are reported elsewhere,17,53 but briefly: A

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monochromatic coherent light source (665.5651 nm wavelength) is split into two beams known

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as the reference and object beams. The object beam is sent through an objective lens to the

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specimen surface, reflects into the instrument, and is recombined with the reference beam. The

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interference pattern of the recombined beams is recorded as a hologram for the entire field of

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view. The holograms are collected at frame rates up to 25 s−1, thus allowing full-field, in situ data

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to be collected in real time. Numerical reconstruction of each hologram yields amplitude and

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phase data at every pixel.54–56 The reconstructed phase data are converted to surface elevation at

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each image pixel, so this configuration and procedure enable the quantitative tracking of in situ

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surface topography evolution. Similar approaches have already been reported in studies of

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mineral dissolution17,18 and metal electrodeposition.57 Local dissolution (or growth) fluxes can be

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computed by tracking the change in pixel height with time. The surface normal flux, ks (mol m−2

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s−1), is determined3,58 by the quotient of the surface normal velocity, vs (m s−1), which is the per

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pixel measured change in height over change in time, ∆h/∆t, and the known molar volume of the

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The surface normal flux, ks, in Eq. (9) is measured at each pixel and can then be equated to the

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net dissolution flux, JC3A, in Eq. (8), thus linking the measured surface topography changes to the

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unknown k+ and n. For sign convention, dissolution will be denoted as negative vs and negative

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ks, while precipitation will be regarded as positive vs and positive ks. The molar volume of C3A-c

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is 8.91×10−5 m3 mol−1.59 For this configuration, uncertainty in the phase measurement results in

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approximately 0.41 nm (mean value) uncertainty in the height for data averaged from 20

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holograms and a water flow rate of 33 mL min−1.53

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DHM measurements of absolute height changes require a flat and inert surface reference

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plane that remains at constant elevation during the experiment. For this purpose, a thin film of

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chromium was introduced by physical vapor deposition to a typical thickness of about 70 nm to

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100 nm, as shown in Figure 1a. The figure shows some residual porosity at the C3A surface that

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survived the sintering treatment. The depth and poor reflectivity of the larger pores produce

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locally noisy phase data, so they are digitally removed during DHM post-processing (Figure 1b)

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using an image gradient thresholding. Note that only the large pores are removed by this method;

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the smaller, shallower pores provide sufficient signal to permit their numerical reconstruction. In

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general, sintered C3A #2 had lower surface porosity than C3A #1, which might be attributed to

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the mayenite phase, which melts at 1400 °C and therefore could act as a liquid phase sintering

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Figure 1. (a) Greyscale phase map of a polished C3A #1 surface showing the selected area for

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reference surface (red rectangle) and measurement area (blue rectangle). The pores appear as

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sudden phase jumps and noisy data. (b) In post-processing, the pores are digitally removed from

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the measurement area.

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The reaction of C3A in pure water, either static or rapidly flowing across the surface,

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caused extremely rapid and fine-scale surface roughening. Within seconds the surface became so

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rough that light no longer reflected into the lens with sufficient intensity to enable a

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measurement. The rate of these surface changes at each pixel was reduced by decreasing the

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water activity by mixing deionized water (> 0.18 MΩ m) with 200 proof ethanol. The water

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activity in the ethanol-water mixture was determined using the non-random two-liquid (NRTL)

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model,60 which provides the activity coefficient (γ, mole fraction basis) as a function of the mole

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fraction of each liquid phase (x, mol mol−1). The interaction energy parameters and the non-

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randomness parameter in the NRTL model were estimated as recommended by Gmehling et al.61

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The activity, % = 45, was then calculated for use in Eq. (8). Binary mixtures with ethanol

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volume fractions of 80 % (aH2O = 0.689), 70 % (aH2O = 0.777), 60 % (aH2O = 0.824), and 50 %

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(aH2O = 0.857) were used for this purpose.

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previously.17,18,53 A 20× immersion lens was used for all experiments. Unless otherwise noted,

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every 10 s to 30 s sets of 15 to 20 holograms were collected at a rate of 12.5 s−1. The sets of 15 to

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20 holograms were averaged to be representative of that time step in order to reduce the effects

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of noise.53,62 The temperature of the solution at the inlet was (23 ± 1) °C.

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Flowing solutions were used to promote, as much as possible, conditions in which the

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dissolution rate is controlled by a surface reaction step and not by transport of ions away from

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the surface. Flowing solutions also help maintain a high degree of undersaturation near the solid

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surface, with respect to C3A and to any calcium aluminate hydrates, such as C3AH6, C2AH8, or

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C4AH13, that might otherwise precipitate during the experiment. Dissolution rate measurements

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were conducted at progressively increasing flow rates to determine the minimum flow rate above

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which the average dissolution flux remained constant. Figure 2 indicates that (33 ± 0.5) mL

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min−1 is a suitable minimum flow rate at the highest water activities (40 % water solutions). The

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error bars overlap in Figure 2, but the low flow rates (0 mL min−1 and 15 mL min−1) still have a

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lower median dissolution flux than the higher flow rates (33 mL min−1 to 67 mL min−1). This

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suggests that a minimum of 33 mL min−1 is acceptable for preventing mass transport from being

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the rate-controlling mechanism of C3A dissolution. Furthermore, as discussed further in Section

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3 and the Supporting Information, no evidence of precipitated phases was detected when using a

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flow rate of 33 mL min−1, although precipitated phases were detected at 0 mL min−1. Dissolution

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fluxes at lower water activities are lower, implying that dissolution is even more likely to be

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controlled by surface reaction at those lower activities. Therefore, and because noise and other

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uncertainties in DHM measurements become increasingly significant at higher flow rates,53 33

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Figure 2. Effect of flow rate on the median dissolution velocity in solutions with 60 % ethanol.

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When C3A is dissolved in water, surface heights primarily should decrease as material is

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removed from the solid (i.e., dissolution). However, the height of any point on the surface may

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infrequently and temporarily appear to increase. Localized surface advances also may be

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produced by inherent noise in the data, thermal effects, vibration effects, or errors in the

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unwrapping algorithm.17 In previous studies, noise and unwrapping errors were minimized by

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averaging the heights of localized groups of pixels,17,18 somewhat like a median filter in image

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processing. However, for C3A dissolution, height increases could be caused by actual nucleation

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and growth of a solid hydrate phase, especially in static solutions that may become progressively

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saturated with respect to such phases. Therefore, spatial averaging techniques could not be used

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in this study. Instead, the surface normal velocity was evaluated at each pixel to separate positive

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and negative surface normal velocities. This pixel-by-pixel analysis was repeated several times

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during a given experiment to evaluate if the measured flux changes with time. Evaluating the

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velocities at each pixel yields a single histogram (Figure 3a), from which the dissolution and

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apparent precipitation velocities must be deconvoluted. In addition, the data must be processed to

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remove pixels with unchanging height as well as pixels that have a velocity too low to be

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distinguished from noise (e.g., see Ref. 53). This deconvolution was performed using the Pearson

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correlation between two variables. The Pearson coefficient can range from -1 (perfectly linear

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negative correlation) to +1 (perfectly linear positive correlation). In this instance, the Pearson

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coefficient was evaluated for height versus time at each pixel. Only velocities that had a Pearson

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coefficient of at least 0.95 were retained, while all other values were disregarded (Figure 3b).

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significant surface height increases, but ultimately no physical evidence of precipitation was

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found, as discussed in Section 3 and in Supporting Information Section S.2. Therefore, the

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surface height increases in Figure 3b are likely artefacts of the data processing and have been

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subsequently disregarded. A more thorough discussion of the validity of retaining only the

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identified (deconvoluted) “dissolution” rates is given in Supporting Information Section S.3.

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median, mean, interquartile range, and standard deviation) in this study are made after the

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deconvolution, such as in Figure 3b.

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imaging was used to search for signs of precipitates on the surface. Raman spectroscopy was

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performed with a Raman microscope using a 20× objective lens and a 532 nm laser with output

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power between 10 mW and 20 mW. The Raman microscope had a spectral range of 4400 cm-1 to

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50 cm-1 and a nominal resolution of about 12 cm-1. Raman spectroscopy was used because the

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vibration bands of hydrated C3A solids can potentially be distinguished from those of anhydrous

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C3A.63–66 A band around 3650 cm−1 is attributable to O-H vibration in hydrated C3A phases;63–66

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this band is not present in unhydrated C3A.

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3.1 General Observations

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In static and flowing solutions with water activity less than 0.83, the primary (initial)

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topographical features that forms during dissolution are etch pits (Figure 4). The etch pits were 3

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µm to 5 µm wide after 60 min in the solutions with water activities of 0.689 or 0.777. Etch pits

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are commonly reported to form on a wide range of dissolving crystals, including alite.67 Besides

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the locally enhanced dissolution fluxes at etch pits, Figure 5 shows significant variation in the

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extent of material removal. At higher water activities for C3A #1, some regions on the order of

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50 µm in characteristic dimension showed higher overall dissolution, as etch pits formed quickly

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and were followed by an extensive surface roughening event (Figure 6). In static solutions, this

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surface roughening began within 15 min to 20 min when aH2O = 0.824, but only took about 2 min

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to begin when aH2O = 0.857. The widespread roughening behavior was somewhat delayed in

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flowing solutions, beginning after about 30 min when aH2O = 0.824. Rapid roughening did not

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happen at lower water activities, at least not during the observation times used in this study.

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Larger-scale heterogeneous reactivity in water, as evidenced in Figure 5 and Figure 6, has also

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been reported for tricalcium silicate and portland cement.10,12,67–72

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At higher water activities for C3A #2, the primary topographical features are again etch

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pits (Figure 7), although they are more faceted, are typically wider and deeper, and have steeper

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walls than the etch pits formed on C3A #1 surfaces. The SEM micrograph in Figure 7 reveals an

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etching morphology on C3A #2 that is reminiscent of scaffold microstructures produced by

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leaching of a two-phase composite73,74 and suggests that the crystalline fraction in C3A #2 may

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be preferentially leaching. The rapid surface roughening exhibited by C3A #1 was not observed

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imply that C3A #1 and C3A #2 have differing intrinsic variabilities (e.g., differences in defect

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densities and types, composition and amorphous content, and initial synthesis process).

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Figure 5. SEM image of C3A#1 after 40 min of exposure to 60 % ethanol solution at 33 mL

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min−1. In the bottom left, etch pits are seen in a flatter, seemingly less-reacted region with etch

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pits, while in the top right, the surface has undergone significant dissolution and “roughening.”

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Figure 6. Rapid dissolution behavior of C3A #1 in a static solution of 60 % ethanol. Etch pits

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initially formed within the first 10 min, which was followed by a rapid dissolution of the entire

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surface, starting at 12 min.

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Figure 7. Dissolution morphology (etch pits) of C3A #2 after 40 min of exposure to 60 % ethanol

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solution at 33 mL min−1: (a) surface topography from DHM and (b) SEM image (note the

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chromium mask on the right side of the image). See Supporting Information for a time-lapse

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video of this sample surface.

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3.2 Dissolution in Static and Flowing Solutions The dissolution velocity increased with water activity, as expected. The 80 % ethanol and

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70 % ethanol experiments yielded a somewhat “steady state” flux as etch pits formed and grew.

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In contrast, dissolution in the 60 % ethanol solution gave rise to two phenomena: stable behavior

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etch pit formation and dissolution up to 60 min, and rapid dissolution events within the first 20

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median dissolution velocity of about 0.03 nm s−1 to 0.05 nm s−1, while the fastest velocity during

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the rapid dissolution event was up to ten times greater (0.32 nm s−1 to 0.37 nm s−1). The 50 %

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ethanol solutions, with the highest water activity, induced only the rapid dissolution events, with

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the fastest velocity being about 1.5 nm s−1. Figure 8 compares the results from the various water

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activities in static solution conditions. As expected, the figure shows that the dissolution velocity

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increases with increasing water activity (decreasing ethanol proportion). The stable dissolution

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for the 80 % ethanol, 70 % ethanol, and 60 % ethanol experiments all exhibit similar temporal

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behaviors, having similar slopes in the log-log format of Figure 8. Similarly, the rapid

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dissolution events for the 60 % ethanol and 50 % ethanol experiments exhibit similar behavior

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(e.g., slope) prior to the sudden rapid dissolution event. However, Figure 8 also suggests that the

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dissolution velocity is decreasing with time, since the ionic saturation of the solution is

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increasing with time in the static solution and suppressing dissolution. It is therefore necessary to

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replicate these experiments under flowing solution conditions to provide a nominally

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undersaturated condition to agree with the assumptions in Eq. (8).

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Figure 8. Median surface normal dissolution velocities for C3A #1 in a static solutions of varying

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water activity. The rapid dissolution results (60 % ethanol and 50 % ethanol) are from one

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experiment while the others represent the median values from the combined results of at least

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The dissolution behavior under flowing conditions was similar to the behavior in static

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conditions, albeit at different time scales. As was also seen in the static solutions, under flowing

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conditions, the rapid surface roughening event occurred with the 60 % ethanol solution, but not

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with the 70 % ethanol or 80 % ethanol solutions. This rapid dissolution event manifested around

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25 min to 35 min in flowing solutions (Figure 9). Dissolution fluxes were comparatively constant

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in 70 % ethanol or 80 % ethanol solutions (Figure 10) within 5 min to 15 min.

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Figure 9. Median surface normal dissolution velocities for replicate experiments of C3A #1 in 33

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mL min−1 60 % ethanol, indicating time intervals of transient, relatively constant, and rapid

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dissolution behavior. Each of the four colored lines represents the data from one replicate

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Figure 10. Median surface normal dissolution velocities for replicate experiments of C3A #1 in

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33 mL min−1 solutions with (a) 70 % ethanol and (b) 80 % ethanol. Each of the four colored lines

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3.3 Statistical Analysis of C3A Dissolution Kinetics The data from each experiment were collated from within the relatively constant rate

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region and yielded the flux data shown in Figure 11. The flux increases with increasing water

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activity as expected. In addition, Figure 11 indicates that dissolution flux is a spectrum of values,

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as has been shown for C3S10 and other minerals,17,18,41,43–48 primarily as a result of the intrinsic

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heterogeneity of crystalline surfaces. The distributions are non-normal and heavy-tailed

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(skewed), which is similar behavior to the distributions in the literature.

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Based on Eqs. (8) and (9), the estimated distributions of k+ for water are shown in Figure

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12, using the method detailed in the Supporting Information Section S.1. Table 2 summarizes the

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statistics of these distributions, including the mean, median, standard deviation, and interquartile

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range (IQR). Assuming n is a constant value, from the method detailed in the Supporting

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Information, n = 5.24 for C3A #1 and n = 4.62 for C3A #2 (see the Supporting Information for a

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discussion of the uncertainty in n). In Figure 12 the modal value of k+ is −1.94 µmol m−2 s−1 and

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the median value of k+ is −2.06 µmol m−2 s−1 for C3A #1, both of which agree with the value of

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−2.07 µmol m−2 s−1 found by linear regression (see Figure S1). This also agrees with the

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dissolution flux value of dissolution flux is −2.0 µmol m−2 s−1 that was proposed based on

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simulations.75 For C3A #2, the modal k+ is −1.28 µmol m−2 s−1 with a median k+ of −1.42 µmol

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Figure 11. Histogram of surface normal dissolution flux as a function of ethanol content for (a)

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C3A #1 and (b) C3A #2.

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Figure 12. Empirical distributions of k+ for C3A #1 and C3A #2, assuming n is constant. These

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Table 2. Surface Normal Dissolution Flux Statistics Solution Ethanol Water Content Activity 60 % 0.824 70 % 0.777 80 % 0.689 Predicted k+ (assuming constant n)

C3A #1 Flux (µmol m-2 s-1) Standard Mean Median Deviation −1.12 −0.754 1.57 −0.608 −0.473 0.545 −0.363 −0.286 0.295

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C3A #2 Flux (µmol m-2 s-1) Standard Mean Median IQR Deviation −0.671 −0.502 0.757 0.465 −0.454 −0.369 0.361 0.287 −0.352 −0.305 0.214 0.216

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The dissolution behaviors of C3A #1 and C3A #2 are different, as is evident by Figure 12,

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with C3A #2 dissolving more slowly than C3A #1. This may be a function of the crystallinity and

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purity of the C3A samples, since C3A #1 was 94 % C3A-c while C3A #2 consisted of only 84 %

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C3A-c, which may indicate preferential etching of crystalline phases (e.g., Ref. 73). C3A #2

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might have fewer intrinsic crystalline heterogeneities, owing to its lower crystalline content,

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which can affect the overall reactivity (e.g., see Ref. 67 and references therein).

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The regression analysis yielded water activity exponent parameters, n, of 5.2 and 4.6 for

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C3A #1 and C3A #2, respectively. These values differ from the stoichiometric value of 6 from

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Eq. (6), which is not surprising since Eq. (6) only applies to elementary reactions and C3A

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dissolution is almost certainly not elementary. The spatial heterogeneity in dissolution

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morphology and fluxes suggests that different (i.e., multiple) reaction mechanisms occur,41,47,76,77

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which are associated with various sources (e.g., defect type and density, crystallographic

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orientation and exposed surfaces). Furthermore, the value of n computed by this study considers

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the bulk effect of all morphologies. Further study is needed to link specific surface reaction

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mechanisms to a given probabilistic dissolution flux (or range of fluxes) and reaction order. That

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effort is being undertaken for other minerals with the help of kinetic Monte Carlo

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simulations.35,47,78

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However, what if n is not assumed to be constant? Kinetically, n can be non-constant for

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multistep reaction processes,79 and, as already discussed, the dissolution of C3A is a complicated

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process depending on composition, crystallinity, and structural defects. Performing the least

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squares optimization (see Supporting Information) for the C3A #1 data under this assumption

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yields a spectrum of n values with a modal value of 5.3, which is very similar to the value of 5.2

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obtained if n is assumed constant. The assumption of a non-constant n would imply that n is a

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different constant value for each specific value of k+, which means that further discretization

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it would be more reasonable to assume that there are a few constant n values, for example, one

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value of n associated with each defect type. Further research is needed to confirm this, although

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kinetic Monte Carlo simulations35,47,78 may offer additional insight.

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Finally, the preceding analysis assumed that the data were obtained from experiments

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without the formation of precipitated phases. To confirm this, the surface was examined a

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posteriori by various techniques to search for evidence of any precipitated phases. XRD was

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unable to detect any precipitated phase. SEM and Raman spectroscopy demonstrated that

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precipitated phases could form under static solution conditions (see Figure S4 and Figure S6) but

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showed no evidence of precipitation under flowing solution conditions (see Figure 5, Figure 7b,

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and Figure S6). Therefore, the analysis is justified in assuming that the data are unadulterated by

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precipitation in flowing solution experiments.

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4. CONCLUSIONS Reflection digital holographic microscopy (DHM) was used to monitor the in situ, real

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time nanoscale surface evolution of cubic tricalcium aluminate (C3A) in water in nominally

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undersaturated conditions. The computed dissolution flux was observed to be a function of the

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rate constant and the water activity raised to an empirically-derived exponent. Experiments were

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conducted at multiple water activities to estimate these values.

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The data and analysis strongly suggest that dissolution is spatially heterogeneous, owing

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to the intrinsic variability of crystalline surfaces (e.g., defect density and type, crystal orientation,

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etc.), thereby yielding a probabilistic distribution (histogram) of fluxes. Using least-squares

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optimization, the shape of the empirical cumulative distribution function was derived to

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determine the empirical probabilistic distribution of the rate constant. The rate constant

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distribution was found to have median and interquartile range values of −2.1 µmol m−2 s−1 and

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3.2 µmol m−2 s−1, respectfully, for highly crystalline C3A (94 % cubic C3A, 4 % amorphous

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content) with a constant exponent of 5.2 and median and interquartile range values of −1.4 µmol

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m−2 s−1 and 1.9 µmol m−2 s−1, respectfully, for less crystalline C3A (84 % cubic C3A, 10 %

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amorphous content) with a constant exponent of 4.6. These data can now be used in

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computational materials science models (e.g., HydratiCA75) to provide a more accurate

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prediction of cement hydration.

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SUPPORTING INFORMATION

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Accompanying supporting information is available free of charge via the Internet at

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http://pubs.acs.org. This material includes an appendix detailing the analysis methodology and

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surface examination for precipitated phases, a time-lapse video of Figure 7, and the data from

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Figure 12. The data from Figure 12 can also be acquired at https://doi.org/10.18434/M3SW2G.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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The authors would like to thank Paul Stutzman (National Institute of Standards and Technology,

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NIST) for his expertise and advice on XRD and SEM analyses, Pan Feng (Southeast University)

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for discussions on experimental methodology, Adam Pintar (NIST) for suggesting the use of the

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nonparametric least squares optimization utilized in this study, and LaKesha Perry (NIST) for

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performing the ICP-OES measurements. ASB would like to acknowledge the National Research

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Council (NRC) for funding through the NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship program at

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NIST.

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