Characterization and Chemistry of Materials
A new publication titled “Quantifying the Global Warming Potential of Low Carbon Concrete Mixes: Comparison of Existing Life Cycle Analysis Tools” is set to be published in Case Studies in Construction Materials in July 2024.
This article is from our group’s MS graduate Andrew Witte. Congratulations Andrew for this very interesting work!
The article can be accessed here.
A few moments from the year 2023:
A new publication titled “Impact of C–S–H Seeds on Cementitious Hydration Kinetics: New Insights on Porosity and Microstructure” is set to be published in Materials Today Communications in March 2024.
This article is from our group’s PhD candidate Faisal Qadri. Additionally, MS candidate Sudharsan Kumar also contributed to this work. Congratulations Faisal and Sudharsan for this very interesting work!
The article can be accessed here.
Garg Group warmly welcomes new members who started in Fall 2023. These are MS candidates: Nanzeeba Tabassum, Nischal Kanel, and Yaman Garg; and PhD candidates: Aysan Farajnia and Momina Rauf.
Additionally, MS candidates Omar Abdelrahman, Jacob Doehring, and Dhanush S. Bejjarapu successfully completed their MS thesis in Summer 2023. Omar started working at WJE, Chicago, Jacob started working at Sublime, Boston, and Dhanush started his PhD at EPFL, Switzerland. We wish them all best of luck in their future endeavors.
Several students from the group are set to graduate in Summer 2024. Hence, multiple openings for graduate students (both at MS and PhD level) are available for Fall 2024. Please apply and join us!
A postdoc opening maybe announced by the end of 2023.
A new publication titled “Enhancing Phase Identification in Waste-to-Energy Fly Ashes: Role of Raman Spectroscopy, Background Fluorescence, and Photobleaching” is set to be published in The Journal of Hazardous Materials in October 2023.
This article is is the first one from our group’s postdoctoral researcher Dr. Hamza Samouh. Additionally, Ph.D. candidate Vikram Kumar and undergraduate student Halle-Mari Santiago also contributed to this work. Congratulations Hamza, Vikram, and Halle-Mari for this very interesting work!
The article can be accessed here.
The publication titled “Elucidating the Size and Shape of Individual Clinker Phases via Raman Imaging: Impact on Cement Hydration”, which was accepted in August 2023, was featured on the cover of the August 2023 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
This article can be accessed here.
A new publication titled “Elucidating the Size and Shape of Individual Clinker Phases via Raman Imaging: Impact on Cement Hydration” was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C in August 2023.
This is the third article from our group’s Ph.D. candidate Krishna C. Polavaram. Congratulations Krishna for this very interesting work!
The article can be accessed here.
A new publication titled “Early-stage Performance Enhancement of Concrete via Commercial C-S-H Seeds” was published in Case Studies in Construction Materials, in August 2023.
This is the first article from our group’s Ph.D. candidate Faisal Qadri. Congratulations Faisal for this very interesting work!
The article can be accessed here.
A new publication titled “Rapid Prediction of Cementitious Initial Sorptivity via Surface Wettability” was published in npj Materials Degradation, in July 2023.
One of the tests to predict the durability of cement-based materials involves measurement of water uptake over time. This ‘sorptivity’ test, however, is laborious and time-consuming (continuous weight measurements over several hours to days).
Today, we report a rapid test method that exploits fundamental wetting characteristics of cementitious systems to predict their 6-hour initial sorptivity in a matter of few seconds. Enabled by computer vision, the quantification of drop spreading dynamics opens up a new pathway for rapid, automated, and affordable testing of cementitious systems.
This is the second article from our group’s Ph.D. candidate Hossein Kabir. Congratulations Hossein for this very interesting work!
The news release for this publication can be accessed here.
The article can be accessed here.
The publication titled “Tracking Spatiotemporal Evolution of Cementitious Carbonation via Raman Imaging”, which was accepted in December 2022, was featured on the cover of the April 2023 issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.
This article can be accessed here.