Calcium hydroxide (CH) represents a significant volume of the products formed from the cement-water reaction. The extent to which the CH phase contributes to the engineering integrity and volume stability of cement-based binders is however moot. Evidence in support of the view that calcium hydroxide has a significant role in determining the mechanical performance and volume stability of cementi...

Background: Himachal Pradesh (India) lying in North West Himalayas were studied for their morphological, physical and chemical properties. Pradesh, is a mountainous region spread over an area of 55,673 km² with elevation ranging from 350 to 6,500 meters above mean sea level noticeably increased west east south north. For agricultural planning, development the sustainable use natural resources. ...

BACKGROUND Starch-binding domains from carbohydrate binding module family 20 have been used as a tool for starch engineering. Previous studies showed that expression of starch binding domain fusion proteins in planta resulted in modified starch granule structures and physicochemical properties. However, although 13 carbohydrate binding module families have been reported to contain starch-bindin...

Modelling of a mineral dissolution front propagation is interest in wide range scientific and engineering fields. The minerals often involves complex physico-chemical processes at the solid–liquid interface (at nano-scale), which micro-to-meso-scale can be simplified to problem continuously moving boundaries. In this work, we studied diffusion-controlled congruent from meso-scale phase transiti...