Yifan ZHOUPhD student

Zhou Yifan, born in 2000. She graduated in 2023 from the School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering at Wuhan University with a major in Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering. During her undergraduate studies, she conducted research on the hydration and pore structure simulation of low-heat silicate cement as part of a research group specializing in building materials. Her research findings were published in an SCI journal and were recognized as the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis by the School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering in 2023. Currently, she is conducting research on the preparation of nano-core-shell materials in cement environments and their applications in infrastructure, under the supervision of Professor Chen Binmeng's research group at the University of Macau.

Published papers:

 

[1] Zhou, Y.; Li, W.; Peng, Y.; Tang, S.; Wang, L.; Shi, Y.; Li, Y.; Wang, Y.; Geng, Z.; Wu, K.

Hydration andFractal Analysis on Low-Heat Portland Cement Pastes Using Thermodynamics-

Based Methods.Fractal Fract. 2023, 7, 606. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7080606

 [cover paper]

 

[2] Li, W.; Zhou, Y.; Yin, J.; Peng, Y.; Wang, Y.; Tang, S.; Wang, L. Thermodynamics-based

simulations of thehydration of low-heat Portland cement and the compensatory effect of

magnesium oxide admixtures. J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. A. 2025, 26, 305–319. https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.A2400521

 

[3] Yu, W.; Zhou, Y.; Zhao, Z.; Li, Y.; Long, Y.; Tang, S. Simulation of low-heat Portland

cementpermeabilityand thermal conductivity using thermodynamics. Proceedings of the

Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport. 2025, 178, 404–414.

https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.24.00070

  1. E-mail: yc47822@um.edu.mo