Everything about CSH

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CSHA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Hydration, strength, and microstructure evolution of Portland cement-calcium sulphoaluminate cement-CSH seeds ultra-early strength cementitious systemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Culture & communicationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Pseudopotential calculations on Rb+2, Cs+2, RbH+, CsH+ and the mixed alkali dimer ionsCited 278 times
5. Go sideways: Calcium silicate hydrateA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Cement chemist notationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Pseudopotential calculations on Rb+2, Cs+2, RbH+, CsH+ and the mixed alkali dimer ions

  László von Szentpály, Patricio Fuentealba, Heinzwerner Preuss · 1982 · Chemical Physics Letters · 278 citations

• CSH guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of drug-induced liver injury

  Drug-induced Liver Injury (DILI) Study Group, Yue-cheng Yu, Chinese Society of Hepatology (CSH) · 2017 · Hepatology International · 254 citations

• High-Temperature Behavior of CsH 2 PO 4 under Both Ambient and High Pressure Conditions

  Dane A. Boysenand, Sossina M. Haile, Hongjian Liu · 2003 · Chemistry of Materials · 169 citations

• Unraveling disadhesion mechanism of epoxy/CSH interface under aggressive conditions

  Dongshuai Hou, Qingrui Yang, Pan Wang · 2021 · Cement and Concrete Research · 141 citations

• Characteristics of CSH under carbonation and its effects on the hydration and microstructure of cement paste

  Bao Lu, Zhen Huo, Qingyuan Xu · 2023 · Construction and Building Materials · 134 citations

• Testing of models of the dissolution of cements—leaching of synthetic CSH gels

  A.W Harris, M.C Manning, W.M Tearle · 2002 · Cement and Concrete Research · 123 citations

• Frequency dielectric dispersion in the ferroelectric and superionic phases of CsH2PO4

  A. I. Baranov, V. P. Khiznichenko, V. A. Sandler · 1988 · Ferroelectrics · 95 citations

• Early strength development in concrete using preformed CSH nano crystals

  Saikat Das, Sonalisa Ray, Sudipta Sarkar · 2020 · Construction and Building Materials · 91 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Hydration, strength, and microstructure evolution of Portland cement-calcium sulphoaluminate cement-CSH seeds ultra-early strength cementitious system

  Zhaofei Long, Guangcheng Long, Zhuo Tang · 2024 · Construction and Building Materials · 90 citations

• Molecular insights into migration of heavy metal ion in calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) surface and intra-CSH (Ca/Si = 1.3)

  Gang Qiao, Dongshuai Hou, Wenjuan Li · 2023 · Construction and Building Materials · 89 citations

• Analysis of hydration kinetics in high early-strength cementitious system with calcium sulphoaluminate cement and CSH seeds

  Zhaofei Long, Guangcheng Long, Zhuo Tang · 2024 · Construction and Building Materials · 73 citations

• Molecular insight in the wetting behavior of nanoscale water droplet on CSH surface: Effects of Ca/Si ratio

  Dongshuai Hou, Heping Zheng, Pan Wang · 2022 · Applied Surface Science · 69 citations

• Novel in-situ controllably grown CSH: Synthesis, characterization and the effect on cement hydration

  Bao Liu, Han Zhou, Ganghua Pan · 2023 · Cement and Concrete Composites · 60 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Culture & communicationEdmund Ronald Leach, Jesús Jáuregui · 1976
• Case Study HousesElizabeth A. T. Smith · 2015
• Protein phosphorylationOra M. Rosen, Edwin G. Krebs · 1981
• Jan Patula: Constructor de La Historia del PresenteJan Patula · 2003
• Periodismo Cientifico En El Siglo XVIIIJose Antonio de Alzate y. Ramirez · 2001
• Using csh and tcshPaul Dubois · 1995
• Case Study Houses. the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966. 40th EdElizabeth A. T. Smith · 2021
• 📕Using csh and tcshPaul DuBois · 1995

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