Review on the deterioration and approaches to enhance the durability of concrete in the freeze–thaw environment

R Wang, Z Hu, Y Li, K Wang, H Zhang - Construction and Building Materials, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The freeze–thaw durability of concrete is an important factor for determining the service life
of concrete in cold regions. This overview expounds three stages of freeze–thaw damage in …

Frost Resistance of Recycled Aggregate Concrete: A Critical Review

K Liu, K Fu, Y Sang, Y Yang, C Zou, T **
T Zhou, M Mirzadeh, RJM Pellenq, MZ Bazant - Physical Review Fluids, 2020‏ - APS
A remarkable variety of organisms and wet materials are able to endure temperatures far
below the freezing point of bulk water. Cryotolerance in biology is usually attributed to …

[HTML][HTML] Micromechanics-based thermo-hydro-mechanical model for air-entrained porous materials subjected to freezing-thawing cycles

W Guo, Y Wu, M Jia, Z Ma, J Jiang, W Xu - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
The freeze-thaw (FT) behavior of porous materials (PMs) involves the coupling of the thermo-
hydro-mechanical (THM) processes and is significantly influenced by the microstructure …

Dielectric breakdown by electric-field induced phase separation

D Fraggedakis, M Mirzadeh, T Zhou… - Journal of The …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The control of the dielectric and conductive properties of device-level systems is important
for increasing the efficiency of energy-and information-related technologies. In some cases …

Confinement-Driven Heterogeneous Benzene Crystallization in Silica Nanopores

S Mohammed, H Asgar, CJ Benmore… - Energy & Fuels, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nanoconfinement alters the thermodynamics, dynamics, and kinetics of fluids hosted in
nanoscale solid nanopores to an extent that depends on the characteristics of the confining …

Unveiling the interstitial pressure between growing ice crystals during ice-templating using a lipid lamellar probe

N Baccile, T Zinn, GP Laurent… - The Journal of …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
What is the pressure generated by ice crystals during ice-templating? This work addresses
this crucial question by estimating the pressure exerted by oriented ice columns on a …