Performance and Working Mechanism of Graphene Oxide Grafted Polycarboxylate Superplasticizer Applied in Cement-based Materials
ZHOU Bingjie1, LIU Xiao1,*, LIU Shuang1,2, LI Shiyu3, LI Runfeng1,2, WANG Qin4, ZHANG Pengyu2,5
1 State Key Laboratory of Materials Low-Carbon Recycling, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China 2 Beijing Building Materials Academy of Sciences Research, Beijing 100041, China 3 CCTEG Ecological Environment Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100013, China 4 Beijing Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Building Structure and Environment Remediation, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China 5 Tianjin Building Materials Science Research Academy Co.,Ltd., Tianjin 300381, China
Abstract: Nowadays, the application of graphene oxide (GO) in cement-based materials has attracted significant attention. However, GO addition exhibits a pronounced thickening and viscosifying effect on cement paste, limiting its practical application. In this work, GO was grafted with acrylic acid (AA) to yield AA-GO, then copolymerized with AA and methallyl poly (ethylene glycol) ether (TPEG) to synthesize acrylic acid-mo-dified graphene oxide polycarboxylate superplasticizer (AA-GO-PCE). The molecular structure of AA-GO-PCE was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The fluidity, rheology and mechanical properties of cement pastes containing AA-GO-PCE were evaluated. Furthermore, the working mechanism of AA-GO-PCE in cement-based materials was revealed. Results demonstrated that AA-GO-PCE significantly improves the cement paste fluidity by 95.2% compared to GO, because of its higher Zeta potential and smaller particle size resulting in better dispersibility. The mortar containing AA-GO-PCE gets a 26.41% and 17.57% increase in flexural strength and compressive strength at 28 d curing, respectively, compared to the blank (reference group containing PCE), indicating that it still maintains strengthening and toughening effects. In addition, the mechanism of AA-GO-PCE to improve the mechanical properties is achieved by promoting hydration, refining the size of calcium hydroxide (CH) and changing the crystal morphology, which is different from the mechanism of GO.
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ZHOU Bingjie, LIU Xiao, LIU Shuang, LI Shiyu, LI Runfeng, WANG Qin, ZHANG Pengyu. Performance and Working Mechanism of Graphene Oxide Grafted Polycarboxylate Superplasticizer Applied in Cement-based Materials. Materials Reports, 2026, 40(10): 25040033-8.
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