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Feng, Lichao (author), Yi, Shengjie (author), Zhao, Shuyuan (author), Zhong, Qiucheng (author), Ren, Feirong (author), Liu, C. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Wang, Wenshou (author), Li, Zhenming (author)Recycling aluminosilicate-based solid wastes is imperative to realize the sustainable development of constructions. By using alkali activation technology, aluminosilicate-based solid wastes, such as furnace slag, fly ash, red mud, and most of the bio-ashes, can be turned into alternative binder materials to Portland cement to reduce the carbon...review 2024
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Liu, C. (author), Li, Zhenming (author), Nie, Shuai (author), Skibsted, Jørgen (author), Ye, G. (author)Calcium sodium aluminosilicate hydrate C-(N-)A-S-H gels, formed through the alkali-activation of calcium silicate-based materials, may exhibit greater susceptibility to aqueous environments when compared to traditional C-(A-)S-H phases formed by hydration of blended Portland cements. This study investigates structural changes in synthesized C...journal article 2024
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Guo, Z. (author), Qiu, Jingping (author), Kirichek, Alex (author), Zhou, Hao (author), Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lei (author)The increasing amount of solid waste, e.g., waste tyres from car industry and tailings from mine operations, causes substantial environmental and societal issues. The recycled tyre polymer fibre (RTPF) reinforced cemented tailings backfill (CTB) is a kind of composite that can treat waste tyres and tailings simultaneously and realize green...journal article 2023
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author)The nature of hydrocarbon pool (HCP) intermediates in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) process has been thoroughly investigated, especially for BEA- and CHA-type zeolite catalysts like H-β and H-SAPO-34. Herein, we further reveal the dynamic mechanistic details of the MTH process over the H-ZSM-5 catalyst at 400 °C, based on the dual-cycle...journal article 2023
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Tu, Botao (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Xu, S. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)Using solid waste to replace limestone filler in asphalt concrete can not only reduce the cost of road construction, but also improve the utilization rate of solid waste. In this study, PHC pile waste concrete (PPWC) was innovatively used to replace limestone filler in asphalt mixture and its effect on the physical and rheological properties...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Y. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Liu, C. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)In this paper, the authors characterized two types of zonation within slag rims in aged alkali-activated slag (AAS) systems through SEM and TEM technology. These two elemental zonation were closely related to the pore structure of AAS pastes, thus providing strong implication for the transport- and durability-related performance of AAS...journal article 2023
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Liang, M. (author), Liu, C. (author), Liang, X. (author), Chang, Z. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper investigates the influence of temperature on autogenous deformation and early-age stress (EAS) evolution in ordinary Portland cement paste using a recently developed Mini Temperature Stress Testing Machine (Mini-TSTM) and Mini Autogenous Deformation Testing Machine (Mini-ADTM). In the Mini-TSTM/ ADTM, CEM I 42.5 N paste with a...journal article 2023
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Liu, C. (author), Liang, X. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)In this study, the impacts of tap water immersion on the pore solution, phase assemblages, gel chemistry and structure, and pore structure of alkali-activated slag (AAS) pastes were studied. AAS degrades under such condition and the potential mechanisms can be concluded as lower reaction rates, gel decomposition and carbonation. The leaching...journal article 2023
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Lu, T. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author)This study experimentally investigated the effects of surfactants and water-repelling agents on the hydration process, relative humidity, and mechanical properties of Portland cement pastes. Based on the measurement results, the degree of hydration, degree of saturation, capillary tension of autogenous shrinkage, and magnitude of autogenous...journal article 2023
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Liu, C. (author), van Kampen, E. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)Enabling the capability of assessing risk and making risk-aware decisions is essential to applying reinforcement learning to safety-critical robots like drones. In this paper, we investigate a specific case where a nano quadcopter robot learns to navigate an apriori-unknown cluttered environment under partial observability. We present a...conference paper 2023
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author)Monitoring complex catalytic pathways under industrially-relevant conditions is one of the key challenges in catalysis chemistry and technology. Herewith we describe a direct technique called ‘fast scanning-pulse analysis’ (FASPA) that allows the direct characterization and detailed kinetic analysis of intimately interweaved catalytic...journal article 2023
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Dvir, T. (author), Wang, Guanzhong (author), van Loo, N. (author), Liu, C. (author), Mazur, G.P. (author), Bordin, A. (author), ten Haaf, S.L.D. (author), van Driel, D. (author), Zatelli, F. (author), Li, X. (author), Malinowski, F.K. (author), Gazibegovic, Sasa (author), Badawy, G.H.A. (author), Bakkers, Erik P.A.M. (author), Wimmer, M.T. (author), Kouwenhoven, Leo P. (author)Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states can arise at the ends of a spinless p-wave superconducting chain<sup>1</sup>. Practical proposals for its realization<sup>2,3</sup> require coupling neighbouring...journal article 2023
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Liu, C. (author)The MTH process is recognized as one of the key ingredients of the methanol (MeOH) economy concept enabling the production of crucial hydrocarbon building blocks, such as light olefins and aromatics, starting from CO2 as the primary carbon source. Besides the driving force of reducing reliance on fossil fuels, the highly tunable nature of this...doctoral thesis 2022
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Liu, C. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Reinforcement learning (RL) equipped with neural networks has recently led to a wide range of successes in learning policies for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation and control problems. The success of RL relies on two human-designed heuristics: appropriate action space definition and reward function engineering. The commonly used fully...conference paper 2022
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He, Songbo (author), Kramer, Thomas Sjouke (author), Klein, Frederike Gerda Hiltje (author), Chandel, Anshu (author), Tegudeer, Zhuorigebatu (author), Heeres, Andre (author), Liu, C. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Heeres, Hero Jan (author)The catalytic conversion of glycerol to aromatics (GTA, e.g., benzene, toluene, and xylenes, BTX) over a shaped H-ZSM-5/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> (60/40 wt%) catalyst was investigated in a continuous fixed-bed reactor to study the addition of the Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> binder in the catalyst formulation on catalyst performance. The...journal article 2022
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), Khramenkova, E. (author), Sireci, Enrico (author), Ouwehand, Lucas T.L.J. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author)The production of valuable aromatics and the rapid catalyst deactivation due to coking are intimately related in the zeolite-catalyzed aromatization reactions. Here, we demonstrate that these two processes can be decoupled by promoting the Ga/HZSM-5 aromatization catalyst with Ca. The resulting bimetallic catalysts combine high selectivity to...journal article 2022
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Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lu (author), Li, Z. (author), Nie, Shuai (author), Hu, Chuanlin (author), Wang, Fazhou (author)Due to the satisfactory property and high productivity, heat-cured concretes have been widely used in engineering practice. However, heat curing process also brings some drawbacks that are detrimental to the long-term property of this material. To address this issue, lightweight fine aggregate (LWFA) was employed to provide internal curing ...journal article 2022
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Castro-Fernández, Pedro (author), Mance, Deni (author), Liu, C. (author), Abdala, Paula M. (author), Willinger, Elena (author), Rossinelli, Aurelio A. (author), Serykh, Alexander I. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Copéret, Christophe (author), Fedorov, Alexey (author), Müller, Christoph R. (author)Three γ/β-Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> nanoparticle catalysts that differ in the relative ratio of γ-Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> to β-Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> were prepared to evaluate the effect of H<sub>2</sub> treatment (500 °C, 2 h) on the coordination environment of bulk and surface Ga sites, Lewis acidity and catalytic activity in...journal article 2022
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), van Vreeswijk, Sophie H. (author), Yarulina, Irina (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Weckhuysen, Bert M. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author)Identification of the catalyst characteristics correlating with the key performance parameters including selectivity and stability is key to the rational catalyst design. Herein we focused on the identification of property-performance relationships in the methanol-to-olefin (MTO) process by studying in detail the catalytic behaviour of MFI,...journal article 2022
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Li, Z. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Liang, M. (author), van Breugel, K. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study investigates the deformation of free and stress of restrained alkali-activated slag concrete (AASC), respectively, under semi-adiabatic condition. The concrete shows first thermal expansion, which is compensated soon by autogenous shrinkage. The subsequent cooling down of the concrete aggravates shrinkage and development of tensile...journal article 2022