Effect of Photocatalysts Modification on Asphalt: Investigations by Experiments and Theoretical Calculation
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 33, Issue 5
Abstract
The application of photocatalysts on pavement engineering to degrade automobile exhaust has become a hot topic for researchers. However, the effect of photocatalysts on pavement materials has not been fully investigated. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the effect of a typical photocatalyst titanium dioxide () on the chemical structure and properties of asphalt through laboratory experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Performance tests indicated that the physical properties of asphalt modified by changed more significantly compared with that of calcium carbonate () and silica (), which might be due to the smaller particle size of . Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Fourier infrared spectrum (FI-IR) analyses demonstrated that the addition of resulted in a smoother asphalt surface and a disappearance of the bee structure. Using would not accelerate the aging process of asphalt. Moreover, the MD simulation results indicated that a more significant interaction existed between and asphalt than that of and , which resulted in a tighter asphalt molecule and smaller free volume distribution in the system.
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Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
The authors confirm contribution to the paper as follows: study conception and design: Xuejuan Cao, Yongjie Ding, Mei Deng and Boming Tang; data collection: Mei Deng, Xiaoyu Yang and Yue Su; analysis and interpretation of results: Mei Deng; draft manuscript preparation: Mei Deng, Yongjie Ding and Xuejuan Cao. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 5167081766).
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Received: Jun 4, 2020
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Published online: Feb 27, 2021
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