Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

The large hydration enthalpy of inorganic interlayer cations sandwiched between
moderately negatively charged silicate layers endows to smectites (eg, hectorite) remarkably …

The widespread applications of d-lactic acid (D-LaA) significantly prompted the research of
its synthesis from renewable biomass via chemo-catalysis. Herein, we developed a robust …

Three new structural models of montmorillonite with differently distributed Al/Si and Mg/Al
substitutions in the tetrahedral and octahedral clay layers are systematically developed and …

Sufficient swelling pressure of compacted bentonite upon wetting is necessary to provide
long-term stability to an engineered barrier system under conditions of thermal gradient and …

There is an increasing interest in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles (NPs) from bulk metals
using pulsed laser ablation in liquids (PLAL), as it offers an easy and simple synthesis route …

In most of natural montmorillonites, Na+ and Ca2+ ions commonly coexist in the interlayer
space as compensation ions. Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to …

CO2 sequestration and enhanced gas recovery (CS-EGR) is a viable option with enormous
potentials to produce shale gas. However, the microscopic competitive sorption behaviors of …

Expandable clays such as montmorillonite have interlayer exchange sites whose hydration
state can be systematically varied from near anhydrous to almost bulk-like water conditions …

Molecular simulations using classical force fields were performed to study the adsorption
and diffusion properties of water and ions in the high-charge (Arizona-type) montmorillonite …