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Ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) is a common substitute for ordinary Portland cement (OPC). However, GGBS–OPC lacks early strength when OPC content is low (<50%). A new cementitious material called GGBS–OPC–EMR (GOE) was developed by adding electrolytic manganese residue (EMR) to address this issue. Tests were conducted using XRD, SEM, and TG to analyze the micro-structural mechanisms of strength development in GOE. Environmental and economic evaluations were conducted, including CO2-eq (carbon dioxide equivalent) analysis, leaching tests, and economic analysis. Results showed that mixture of GGBS, OPC, and EMR in a 4:2:1 ratio increased the unconfined compressive strength by 25% after 28 days compared to OPC while reducing cement consumption by 70%. Major hydration products in GOE were C–S–H and ettringite (AFt), with approximately 14% EMR promoting AFt production. GOE reduced CO2-eq emissions by 35.9% and saved $46.6/ton compared to OPC. Leaching tests demonstrated GOE's ability to stabilize heavy metals, sulfate, and ammonia nitrogen.

As a typical fuel-oil heat exchanger, the offset strip fin heat exchanger (OSFHX) can ensure the efficient and stable operation of the aero engine lubrication system. The paper establishes 20 kinds of numerical models of OSFHX that are verified by experiments. The heat transfer characteristics of oil inside the OSFHX are systematically studied. Based on dimensional analysis, the prediction model which can describe the whole performance of the OSFHX is obtained. The results show that with the decrease of s, l, h, t, and α, the heat transfer performance of the OSFHX is enhanced and the resistance is increased. With the decrease of s and h, and the increase of t and α, the comprehensive performance of the OSFHX is enhanced. When l = 4 mm, the comprehensive performance of the OSFHX is the best. For the heat transfer performance and comprehensive performance of the OSFHX, the α has the most significant effect, followed by h, and s, l, and t are the weakest. The average error of j factor and f factor prediction models is 4.09% and 5.31% respectively which can realize the theoretical calculation of the performance of the OSFHX for aviation.

This study evaluated the feasibility of using polypropylene fiber (PF) as reinforcement in improving tensile strength behavior of cement-stabilized dredged sediment (CDS). The effects of cement content, water content, PF content and length on the tensile strength and stress–strain behavioral evolutions were evaluated by conducting splitting tensile strength tests. Furthermore, the micro-mechanisms characterizing the tensile strength behavior inside PF-reinforced CDS (CPFDS) were clarified via analyzing macro failure and microstructure images. The results indicate that the highest tensile strengths of 7, 28, 60, and 90 d CPFDS were reached at PF contents of 0.6%, 1.0%, 1.0%, and 1.0%, exhibiting values 5.96%, 65.16%, 34.10%, and 35.83% higher than those of CDS, respectively. Short, 3 mm, PF of showed the best reinforcement efficiency. The CPFDS exhibited obvious tensile strain-hardening characteristic, and also had better ductility than CDS. The mix factor (CCa/Cwb) and time parameter (qt0(t)) of CDS, and the reinforcement index (kt-PF) of CPFDS were used to establish the tensile strength prediction models of CDS and CPFDS, considering multiple factors. The PF “bridge effect” and associated cementation-reinforcement coupling actions inside CPFDS were mainly responsible for tensile strength behavior improvement. The key findings contribute to the use of CPFDS as recycled engineering soils.

The hexagonal cell topology of planar SiC VDMOSFETs with varied JFET width (LJFET) are designed and manufactured in this study. L ${_{\text {JFET}}} = 1.4\mu $ m has the best HF-FOM (R ${_{\text {on}}} \times $ Cgd) and HF-FOM (R ${_{\text {on}}} \times $ Qgd) by comparing the dynamic and static parameters of each design. Besides, the UIS reliability and failure mechanism for series designs are investigated by experiment and TCAD simulation. The results show that the high temperature is generated by energy dissipation during avalanche and it drives the parasitic BJT conduction, causing Ids out of control and instantaneous heat concentration in a very short time. The extremely high temperature causes internal cracking of the material and metal melting, resulting in gate-source short circuit and device damage. It would provide suggestions for device design and reliability consideration.

High-efficiency disposal of dredged sediment (DS) has become an imperative geo-environmental engineering issue due to the limited landfilling space and severe environmental burdens. This study firstly developed a novel high-efficiency nano-modified and chemical-activated binary cement (NBC), which was composed of binary cement (BC) consisting ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS), chemical-activator and nano-modifier. The effects of chemical-activation and nano-modification on the strength development of BC-stabilized DS (BCDS), and the optimum mix of NBC were respectively achieved via a series of unconfined compressive strength and orthogonal tests. Then, the high-efficiency and economic applicability of NBC in DS stabilization were evaluated by comparing with OPC. Furthermore, the microstructure and mineral composition evolutions inside NBC-stabilized DS (NDS) were explored by conducting X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tests. The results show that both chemical-activation and nano-modification could effectively improve the strength gain of BCDS, and compared with single chemical-activator and nano-modifier, the composite chemical-activators and nano-modifiers exhibited better performances. Based on BC with OPC/GGBS mass ratio of 1:1, both anhydrous sodium metasilicate/anhydrous sodium sulfate (SM/SS) and nano-SiO2/nano-MgO (NS/NM) with mass ratio of 1:9 were respectively determined to be optimum chemical-activator and nano-modifier. The optimum mass ratio of BC, SM/SS and NS/NM was 20:2:1, i.e. the optimum mix of NBC. Compared with OPC, NBC exhibited higher stabilization efficiency and better economic applicability. The generation of calcium silicate hydrate (CSH), calcium aluminate hydrate (CAH) and ettringite contributed to the formation of dense cemented soil matrix inside NDS, and a conceptual micro-mechanism model characterizing the strength development under the coupling action of chemical-activation and nano-modification was proposed.

Autogenous self-healing is the innate and fundamental repair capability of cement-based materials for healing cracks. Many researchers have investigated factors that influence autogenous healing. However, systematic research on the autogenous healing mechanism of cement-based materials is lacking. The healing process mainly involves a chemical process, including further hydration of unhydrated cement and carbonation of calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide. Hence, the autogenous healing process is influenced by the material constituents of the cement composite and the ambient environment. In this study, different factors influencing the healing process of cement-based materials were investigated. Scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy were used to examine the autogenous healing mechanism, and the maximum healing capacity was assessed. Furthermore, detailed theoretical analysis and quantitative detection of autogenous healing were conducted. This study provides a valuable reference for developing an improved healing technique for cement-based composites.

To investigate the unclamped inductive switch (UIS) characteristics, 1200 V silicon carbide (SiC) planar MOSFETs with four cell topologies of linear, current sharing linear, square, and hexagon are designed and manufactured. The experimental platform was built and tested. The results show that the single pulse avalanche energy density of the linear cell topology is 1.69 times higher than that of the square and 1.49 times that of the hexagon. Further, the UIS process is simulated by using physical simulation, which shows that the avalanche energy was concentrated near the corner of the P-base region in the UIS mode. From this, the avalanche energy distribution differences of the four cell topologies were analyzed and compared. A theoretical model of avalanche heating per unit area is proposed, which shows that the avalanche energy density is inversely proportional to the proportion of avalanche energy concentration region. This study may contribute to the cell topology design of SiC MOSFETs under the application scenario with high avalanche reliability requirements.

Lead (Pb2+) and cadmium (Cd2+) are common heavy metal pollution, which is harmful to humans and animals. However, the diffusion rate of heavy metal ions moves faster in acidic environment, there are a large number of acidic heavy metal polluted soil in China, but the conventional binders are not effective to deal with them. Phosphate-based geopolymers (PGEOs) are acidic materials, and have excellence mechanical properties in acidic environment and solidification/stabilization (S/S) effect on Pb2+, but the applicability of PGEOs to Cd, Pb and Cd composite pollution is not clear. Therefore, this study discusses the applicability of PGEOs fabricated from fly ash (FA) and aluminum dihydrogen phosphate (ADP) as activator for S/S treatment of Cd, Pb-Cd composite pollution. Results show that the influence of Cd2+and Pb2+on the compressive strength of PGEOs was inconsistent, as the Cd2+content raised, the compressive strength reduced slightly at 7 and 14 days, but it did not change basically at 28 days. However, the compressive strength rose firstly and then declined with an increase in Pb-Cd content when partial Pb2+was used to replace Cd2+. The compressive strength of PGEOs with a Pb-Cd content of 0.6 % reached maximum (11.45 MPa), exceeding the compressive strength of PGEOs containing Cd2+. Moreover, the PGEOs presents an excellent stabilization effect on Pb2+, but poor effect on Cd2+. The Pb2+leaching concentration meet the hazardous solid waste identification criteria (<5 mg/L), but the Cd2+leaching is high and is more than 1 mg/L. Furthermore, the compressive strength of PGEOs had a good correlation with pH and EC. The S/S mechanism of PGEOs for Pb2+, Cd2+includes physical adsorption, encapsulation, and chemical precipitation. However, Pb2+involved in the geopolymerization process, while Cd2+can not participate in the structure formation, so the PGEOs have a poor S/S effect. Therefore, it needs to be further improved when using PGEOs to stabilize acidic Cd2+contaminated soil.

AbstractThe strength, durability and swelling behavior of cement-solidified dredged sludge (CDS) has been attracted more and more attention in recent years. This study performed a series of laboratory tests including unconfined compressive strength (UCS), water absorption, swelling tests and pH to investigate the effectiveness of using fly ash (FA) and nano-SiO2(NS) blended with Portland cement (PC) for DS solidification. Microstructural properties were also analyzed by conducting scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) tests. The results showed that the addition of FA and NS can significantly improve the UCS of CDS. Using FA and NS together as PC admixture can effectively improve the water resistance. Compared with FA, NS was more effective to reduce the water absorption and swelling of CDS. Adding 0.9% NS to CDS notably reduced the 7-day water absorption and swelling value by up to 40% and 67.5%, respectively. Furthermore, the addition of NS is beneficial to control the pH level of CDS. The SEM and XRD results showed that CSH and CAH gels were the major cementitious products inside solidified DS. The addition of NS contributed to the formation of additional CSH gels in CDS.

The low reactivity and high stability of waste concrete powder (WCP) hinder the promotion of recycled binder applications with WCP addition. This study provides an innovative utilization strategy for thermal-modified WCP (TMWCP) recycling as an environmentally friendly solidification/stabilization (S/S) binder material for Pb-contaminated soil by adding ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS). The S/S treated soils underwent performance evaluations including unconfined compressive strength and leaching tests. Furthermore, the X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and mercury intrusion porosimetry tests were conducted to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. The results show that at an optimal heat treatment temperature of 600 °C for WCP, the S/S treated soil achieved a compressive strength of 4.2 MPa after 28 d of curing. Additionally, the optimum mixture ratio of TMWCP and GGBS was 9:1. It was found that the novel binder was much superior to OPC in terms of Pb immobilization and carbon emission reduction. When the dosage of the formed binder is twice that of OPC, it can compensate for the lack of strength in S/S treated Pb-contaminated soil.

In recent years, superamphiphobic coatings have been widely used in industrial transportation and environmental treatments because of their unique liquid repellency. In this study, WO3-TiO2nanorods/SiO2were used as the constructor of surface microstructures, and 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyltriethoxysilane was used as the provider of low surface energy, and a photocatalytic superamphiphobic coating (FTS coating) was prepared. The microstructure and chemical composition of the coating was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The coating exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity toward degradation methyl red and nitric oxide (NO), and the degradation efficiency to NO reached 47.8%. Also, the advanced contact angle and the hysteresis angle of water, glycol, glycerol, and olive oil was used to evaluate the superamphiphobicity. After 7 days of ultraviolet (UV) aging, five cycles of airbrush flushing and 48 h of immersion in acid, salt, and alkali solutions, the FTS coating still exhibits excellent amphiphobicity, which lays a foundation for its large-scale applications in the concrete exterior wall. The surface microstructure and the formation of air pockets are a prerequisite for superamphiphobicity, which promotes the liquid on the coating surface into the Cassie-Baxter state. Furthermore, the formation of air pockets is closely related to the gas adsorption capacity and the specific surface area (SBET) of the surface microstructure on the coating surface. The coatings with different SBETconstructed and the advanced contact angle were measured. The influence of air pockets on the superamphiphobicity of coatings was studied in combination with the optical microscope. The understanding that SBETfurther influences superamphiphobicity by affecting the surface air pockets is proposed.

The construction of coastal areas generates a substantial volume of waste marine clay (WMC), which poses environmental and safety challenges during the stockpiling process. The improved preparation of WMC as roadbed materials emerges as a crucial pathway for resource utilization. However, the engineering performance and durability of roadbed materials prepared from WMC have always been a concern for scholars and engineers. This study employs alkali-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS) and municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash (MSWIBA) to solidify WMC for preparation of the roadbed materials. The results showed that the combined utilization of alkali-activated GGBFS and MSWIBA to improve WMC can meet the environmental and mechanical requirements of roadbed materials. The incorporation of 5-20% MSWIBA could improve the water stability coefficient and California bearing ratio to more than 85% and 80%, respectively. The durability of roadbed material was significantly improved by addition of MSWIBA. After 12 dry–wet cycles, the strength of the material without MSWIBA and with 5% MSWIBA was 0 and 2.87 MPa, respectively. Following analysis of engineering properties and durability, the optimal dosage of MSWIBA was determined to be 5%. The enhanced durability can be attributed to the optimization of material gradation and pore structure achieved through the incorporation of a small quantity of MSWIBA. The carbon emission and normalized global warming potentials of roadbed material treated by MSWIBA and GGBFS were much lower than that of cementitious binders such as ordinary Portland cement. These findings indicate that MSWIBA has the potential to substitute natural aggregates like sand and gravel, effectively improving the durability of roadbed materials and promoting the safe and efficient recycling of solid waste resources.

Due to the limited hydration capacity, solidification/stabilization (S/S) with waste concrete powder (WCP) has a low strength. Carbonation can reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and improve strength of lead-contaminated soil, but its mechanism and environmental behaviors are unclear. In light of this, a comprehensive study was conducted on the compressive strength, lead immobilization, conductivity characteristics, and carbonation mechanism of carbonated Pb-contaminated soils stabilized with WCP compared to calcining 600 °C WCP. Results indicated that with carbonation, the compressive strength of the samples was significantly improved at the early stage (1 d), resulting in increased unconfined compressive strength (UCS) by 2.5-5.2 times due to the filling of pores by calcite. It negatively affected the lead immobilization capacity of highly doped (30%) samples, while this effect reversed after 3 d of carbonating due to the reduced alkaline environment. The lead immobilization capacity decreased after 28 d of carbonating due to the cracking of samples and the influence of a lower pH on the solubility of lead-carbonated hydroxide ((PbCO3)2Pb(OH)2). The water evaporation (saturation <16.8%) led to dry shrinkage cracking and decreased UCS of the samples. Based on this finding, a conductivity model was developed for carbonated and cured samples, accurately predicting changes in saturation levels (R2= 0.98). A relationship between conductivity and UCS or lead immobilization capacity was proposed. This research proposed an innovative method for the reduction of CO2emission as well as laid down a theoretical basis for the recovery of WCP and lead-contaminated soils through carbonation.

Observing nuclear neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay would be a revolutionary result in particle physics. Observing such a decay would prove that the neutrinos are their own antiparticles, help to study the absolute mass of neutrinos, explore the origin of their mass, and may explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our universe by lepton number violation. We propose developing a time projection chamber (TPC) using high-pressure 82SeF6gas and Topmetal silicon sensors for readout in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 82Se, called the NνDEx experiment. Besides being located at CJPL with the world’s thickest rock shielding, NνDEx combines the advantages of the high Qββ(2.996 MeV) of 82Se and the TPC’s ability to distinguish signal and background events using their different topological characteristics. This makes NνDEx unique, with great potential for low-background and high-sensitivity 0νββsearches. NνDEx-100, a NνDEx experiment phase with 100 kg of SeF6gas, is being built, with plans to complete installation at CJPL by 2025. This report introduces 0νββphysics, the NνDEx concept and its advantages, and the schematic design of NνDEx-100, its subsystems, and background and sensitivity estimation.

Cement-based solidification is a widely used sustainable technology for transforming waste dredged sludge (DS) into backfill materials. This study developed a novel solidification/oxidization synergistic (SOS) method, using Portland cement as a binder and sodium persulfate (SP) as an oxidant, for treating the organic DS with different fulvic acid (FA) content. The results demonstrated that adding SP could significantly improve the UCS of the cement-solidified DS doped with FA. When the FA content was 4%, the 28-day UCS of the sample with 25% cement content was only 160.5 kPa. The addition of 6% SP increased the UCS to 2225.5 kPa, which was 15.1 times that of the sample without SP. However, excessive SP hydrolyzed to produce a large amount of sulfuric acid, leading to a low pH value of the pore solution. This in turn hindered further persulfate activation and cement hydration, which was detrimental to the strength of cement-solidified DS.

The combination of chemical stabilization and fiber reinforcement can simultaneously improve the strength and ductility of dredged sediment. The polypropylene fiber (PF) and straw fiber (SF) were respectively used as artificial and natural reinforcements of cement-stabilized dredged sediment (CDS). A series of unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests were conducted to investigate the effects of cement content, fiber content, fiber length and water content on the mechanical properties of PF-reinforced CDS (CPFDS) and SF-reinforced CDS (CSFDS). Furthermore, the cementation-reinforcement mechanism was explored and analyzed via macro failure characteristics and micro interfacial morphologies inside typical CPFDS and CSFDS samples. The results showed that increasing cement content or decreasing water content significantly improved the UCS and aggravated the brittleness of CPFDS and CSFDS. The suitable addition of PF can effectively improve the UCS of CDS, while incorporating SF exhibited the opposite role. The maximum 7d-, 28d-, 60d- and 90d-UCS of CPFDS were respectively 17.7%, 43.6%, 10.7% and 9.7% higher than that of CDS. The optimum length of PF inside CPFDS and SF inside CSFDS was 3 mm and 5–10 mm, respectively. Both incorporating PF or SF can effectively improve the ductility of CDS. Based on the proposed parameters of total-water/cement ratio and fiber cementation factor, the effective strength development models of CPFDS and CSFDS considering cement content, fiber content, water content and curing time were empirically established. The fiber “bridge” effect and interfacial friction between fiber and cemented soil particles were mainly responsible for the strength evolution and ductility improvement of CPFDS and CSFDS.

Objective To evaluate the value of single or combined detection of procalcitonin (PCT), interleukin-6 (IL-6), serum amyloid A (SAA) and c-reactive protein (CRP) in the differential diagnosis of simple and strangulated intestinal obstruction.Methods This retrospectively study collected 61 patients with intestinal obstruction. The patients were classified into the group of simple or strangulated intestinal obstruction according to operation. The age, sex, basic diseases, lesion sites and inflammatory indicators such as PCT, IL-6, SAA and CRP in two groups were collected and analyzed. The Students’ T-test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used to analyze normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively. The categorical variable was analyzed by the chi-square test. The receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the curve (AUC) were used to predict the differential diagnostic value of single and combined detection of the above clinical inflammatory indicators.Results The serum levels of PCT, IL-6, SAA and CRP of the strangulated group were significantly higher than those of the simple group (p< .05). The areas under the ROC curve (AUC) were 0.907 for PCT, 0.712 for IL-6, 0.723 for SAA and 0.681 for CRP. With the cutoff values of PCT (0.24 ng/L), IL-6 (19.55 pg/L), SAA (282.50 mg/L) and CRP (63.00 mg/L), the sensitivity and specificity were 86.40% and 87.20% for PCT, 68.20% and 76.90% for IL-6, 59.10% and 87.20% for SAA, 63.60% and 87.20% for CRP, respectively. And the sensitivity and specificity were 86.40% and 89.70% for combined model. The differences between PCT and the combined model are tiny and neither clinically nor statistically significant.Conclusions For discriminating strangulated intestinal obstruction from simple intestinal obstruction, PCT alone may be the preferred approach due to its simplicity.

Nowadays, biopolymer stabilization as a promising eco-friendly approach in soft ground improvement has attracted wide attentions. However, the feasibility of using biopolymer as a green additive of cement-stabilized dredged sediment (CDS) with high water content is still unknown. In this study, guar gum (GG) and xanthan gum (XG) were adopted as typical biopolymers, and a series of unconfined compressive strength (UCS), splitting tensile strength (STS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tests were performed to evaluate the mechanical and microstructural properties of XG- and GG-modified CDSs considering several factors including biopolymer modification, binder–soil ratio and water–solid ratio. Furthermore, the micro-mechanisms revealing the evolutions of mechanical properties of biopolymer-modified CDS were analyzed. The results indicate that the addition of XG can effectively improve the strength of CDS, while the GG has a side effect. The XG content of 9% was recommended, which can improve the 7 d- and 28 d-UCSs by 196% and 51.8%, together with the 7 d- and 28 d-STSs by 118.3% and 42.2%, respectively. Increasing the binder–soil ratio or decreasing the water–solid ratio significantly improved the strength gaining but aggravated the brittleness characteristics of CDS. Adding XG to CDS contributed to the formation of microstructure with more compactness and higher cementation degrees of ordinary Portland cement (OPC)-XG-stabilized DS (CXDS). The micro-mechanism models revealing the interactions of multiple media including OPC cementation, biopolymer film bonding and bridging effects inside CXDS were proposed. The key findings confirm the feasibility of XG modification as a green and high-efficiency mean for improving the mechanical properties of CDS.

Abnormal proliferation is one characteristic of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), which play a key role in tumorigenesis and tumor progression. Oxidative stress (OS) is the root cause of CAFs abnormal proliferation. ATM (ataxia-telangiectasia mutated protein kinase), an important redox sensor, is involved in DNA damage response and cellular homeostasis. Whether and how oxidized ATM regulating CAFs proliferation remains unclear. In this study, we show that there is a high level of oxidized ATM in breast CAFs in the absence of double-strand breaks (DSBs) and that oxidized ATM plays a critical role in CAFs proliferation. The effect of oxidized ATM on CAFs proliferation is mediated by its regulation of cellular redox balance and the activity of the ERK, PI3K-AKT, and Wnt signaling pathways. Treating cells with antioxidant N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) partially rescues the proliferation defect of the breast CAFs caused by ATM deficiency. Administrating cells with individual or a combination of specific inhibitors of the ERK, PI3K-AKT, and Wnt signaling pathways mimics the effect of ATM deficiency on breast CAF proliferation. This is mainly ascribed to the β-catenin suppression and down-regulation of c-Myc, thus further leading to the decreased cyclinD1, cyclinE, and E2F1 expression and the enhanced p21Cip1level. Our results reveal an important role of oxidized ATM in the regulation of the abnormal proliferation of breast CAFs. Oxidized ATM could serve as a potential target for treating breast cancer.

In this study, a novel impervious sand is modified from the desert sand. It has a good waterproofing and thermal-isolating capacity. Hence. it was used as the separation layer in the collapsible losses embankment to prolong the service life. It has the advantages of lightweight, good waterproofing effect, and cycled usage. The application of impervious sand in collapsible losses embankment could constrain water immigration effectively. Hence, local collapsible losses could be used in highway construction, which means the construction cost could be saved to a large extent. In this study, an artificial fill and impervious sand of different thicknesses were both used in collapsible losses embankment. In-suit monitoring on soil temperature, water content, settlement, and strains of different directions were conducted for more than one year. Hence, the waterproofing effect between the artificial fill and impervious sand could be compared. Furthermore, the collapsible losses embankment side slope stability was calculated through a finite element model. The long-term performance of embankment stability, which took the filling loess’s water content into consideration, was also calculated and compared between the separation layer made of artificial fill or impervious sand.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of nano-modification on the strength enhancement of cement-stabilized dredged sludge (CDS). Three types of nanoparticles including nano-SiO2(NS), nano-Al2O3(NA) and nano-MgO (NM) were used as cement admixtures for dredged sludge stabilization. Effects of single nanoparticle content, mass ratio of composite nanoparticles and curing time on the strength development of CDS were evaluated via a series of unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests. The pH evolutions of CDS caused by nanoparticles were also examined by a range of pH tests. Furthermore, micro-mechanisms reflecting the strength evolutions were analyzed by performing scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) tests. The results indicated that adding nanoparticles can significantly improve the UCS of CDS. For single nano-modification, the optimum contents of NS, NA and NM were 4%–6%, 6% and 8%, which can increase the 7- and 28-d UCSs of CDS by 38% and 50%, 17% and 35%, 65% and 67%, respectively. Compared with single nano-modification, composite nano-modifications were more effective in improving the strength gain of CDS. The optimum mass ratios of composite nanoparticles, namely NS/NA, NS/NM and NA/NM, were 9/1, 3/7 and 3/7, respectively. Based on the strength growth rate, the composite nanoparticles with NS/NM of 3/7 were highly recommended. The addition of nanoparticles obviously affected the pH evolution of CDS, which was mainly determined by the difference of OH−production and consumption inside nano-modified CDS. The microstructural analysis revealed that C-S-H and C-A-H gels are the main cementitious products, and the addition of nanoparticles can obviously contribute to a denser and more homogenous microstructure of CDS.