title: [Study on high-temperature phase change of tobermorite].
abstract: In the present paper, the high-temperature phase change of pure tobermorite was investigated by TGA/DSC, X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy (IR) respectively. The DSC results showed that four interlayer water molecules were lost when they were heated at 300 degrees C. As the temperature increased to 724 degrees C, Si-O-H bonds were cleaved and dehydroxylation occurred. The XRD results showed that many diffraction peaks o f tobermorite disappeared and the crystal structure was broken and collapsed. Then tobermorite tends to be disordered and amorphous. When the calcination temperature increased to 861 degrees C, the disordered structure recombined to wollastonite, and the crystal structure became ordered and stable. Finally, the structure completely transformed to 2M-wollastonite at 1 000 degrees C. It should include the process of high-temperature phase change of tobermorite: tobermorite --> dehydration tobermorite --> dehydroxylation tobermorite --> wollastonite.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China. jkyxl@126.com
authors.forename: Xiu-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiao-Yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Chong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Hai-Long
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang