“Cement-Admixture: Study of the Hybrid System”

The modern concrete is formulated with many functional compounds. The interactions between cement firstly and the organic (polymeric) admixtures constitutes a hybrid system whose comprehension is necessary to improve the material performances. The dispersing polymers (generally are polycarboxylate comb polymers, PCP, are composed by polar sites that link the inorganic phases through ionic bounds, modifying the crystalline structure. We studied the interaction between cement and PCP using suitable models both organic that inorganic (substrate).