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  • 2013 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Gaurav Sant is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular focus on Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Biomaterials.

Their main topics of investigation include Concrete and Cement Materials Research, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials, Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Concrete Properties and Behavior, and Magnesium Oxide Properties and Applications.

Gaurav Sant has published extensively across several scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cement and Concrete Composites
  • Materials & Design

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Gaurav Sant are:

  • The hydrogen economy: A pragmatic path forward, 2021, Joule
  • Saline Water-Based Mineralization Pathway for Gigatonne-Scale CO2 Management, 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • A critical examination of the influence of material characteristics and extruder geometry on 3D printing of cementitious binders, 2020, Cement and Concrete Composites
  • Elucidating the grain-orientation dependent corrosion rates of austenitic stainless steels, 2020, Materials & Design
  • Emergence of micro-galvanic corrosion in plastically deformed austenitic stainless steels, 2021, Materials & Design

Collaboration features prominently in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mathieu Bauchy
  • Dante Simonetti
  • Narayanan Neithalath
  • Aditya Kumar
  • Erika Callagon La Plante

Gaurav Sant received the Hellman Fellow award in 2013. Their research contributions span diverse topics related to sustainable materials, corrosion science, and advanced manufacturing techniques for cementitious materials, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • The Filler Effect: The Influence of Filler Content and Surface Area on Cementitious Reaction Rates

    Tandré Oey;Aditya Kumar;Jeffrey W. Bullard;Narayanan Neithalath

  • Hydration and strength development in ternary portland cement blends containing limestone and fly ash or metakaolin

    Kirk Vance;Matthew Aguayo;Tandre Oey;Gaurav Sant

  • Can the compressive strength of concrete be estimated from knowledge of the mixture proportions?: New insights from statistical analysis and machine learning methods

    Benjamin A. Young;Alex Hall;Laurent Pilon;Puneet Gupta

  • Interactions between shrinkage reducing admixtures (SRA) and cement paste's pore solution

    Farshad Rajabipour;Gaurav Sant;Jason Weiss

  • The rheological properties of ternary binders containing Portland cement, limestone, and metakaolin or fly ash

    Kirk Vance;Aditya Kumar;Gaurav Sant;Narayanan Neithalath

  • Cements in the 21st Century: Challenges, Perspectives, and Opportunities.

    Joseph J. Biernacki;Jeffrey W. Bullard;Gaurav Sant;Kevin Brown

  • Quantitative discrimination of the nano-pore-structure of cement paste during drying: New insights from water sorption isotherms

    Hamlin M. Jennings;Aditya Kumar;Gaurav Sant

  • On the feasibility of using phase change materials (PCMs) to mitigate thermal cracking in cementitious materials

    Fabio Fernandes;Shilpa Manari;Matthew Aguayo;Kevin Santos

  • Rheological Properties of Cement Pastes: A Discussion of Structure Formation and Mechanical Property Development

    Gaurav Sant;Chiara F. Ferraris;Jason Weiss

  • Measurement of Volume Change in Cementitious Materials at Early Ages: Review of Testing Protocols and Interpretation of Results

    Gaurav Sant;Pietro Lura;Jason Weiss

  • The origin of early age expansions induced in cementitious materials containing shrinkage reducing admixtures

    Gaurav Sant;Barbara Lothenbach;Patrick Juilland;Gwenn Le Saout

  • The influence of microencapsulated phase change material (PCM) characteristics on the microstructure and strength of cementitious composites: Experiments and finite element simulations

    Matthew Aguayo;Sumanta Das;Amit Maroli;Nihat Kabay;Nihat Kabay

  • Performance of Shrinkage-Reducing Admixtures at Different Humidities and at Early Ages

    Jason Weiss;Pietro Lura;Farshad Rajabipour;Gaurav Sant

  • Early-Age Properties of Cement-Based Materials: I. Influence of Cement Fineness

    Dale P. Bentz;Dale P. Bentz;Gaurav Sant;Gaurav Sant;Jason Weiss;Jason Weiss

  • Direct Carbonation of Ca(OH)2 Using Liquid and Supercritical CO2: Implications for Carbon-Neutral Cementation

    Kirk Vance;Gabriel Falzone;Isabella Pignatelli;Mathieu Bauchy

  • Cooling rate effects in sodium silicate glasses: Bridging the gap between molecular dynamics simulations and experiments

    Xin Li;Weiying Song;Kai Yang;N. M. Anoop Krishnan

  • Ternary blends containing slag and interground/blended limestone: Hydration, strength, and pore structure

    Aashay Arora;Gaurav Sant;Narayanan Neithalath

  • The influence of sodium and potassium hydroxide on alite hydration: Experiments and simulations

    Aditya Kumar;Gaurav Sant;Cedric Patapy;Caterina Gianocca

  • Shrinkage Mitigation Strategies in Cementitious Systems: A Closer Look at Differences in Sealed and Unsealed Behavior

    Aleksandra Radlinska;Farshad Rajabipour;Brooks Bucher;Ryan Henkensiefken

  • Diurnal thermal analysis of microencapsulated PCM-concrete composite walls

    Alexander M. Thiele;Gaurav Sant;Laurent Pilon

  • Simple methods to estimate the influence of limestone fillers on reaction and property evolution in cementitious materials

    Aditya Kumar;Tandre Oey;Seohyun Kim;Davis Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Bauchy
Mathieu Bauchy University of California, Los Angeles
Narayanan Neithalath
Narayanan Neithalath Arizona State University
Aditya Kumar
Aditya Kumar Missouri University of Science and Technology
Laurent Pilon
Laurent Pilon University of California, Los Angeles
Jason Weiss
Jason Weiss Oregon State University
Morten Mattrup Smedskjær
Morten Mattrup Smedskjær Aalborg University
Jian Huang
Jian Huang University of Iowa
John C. Mauro
John C. Mauro Pennsylvania State University
Dale P. Bentz
Dale P. Bentz National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pietro Lura
Pietro Lura Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

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