Shales and other unconventional or low permeability (tight) reservoirs house vast quantities
of hydrocarbons, often demonstrate considerable water uptake, and are potential …

Fine-grained sediments and sedimentary rocks play important roles in a variety of modern
energy technologies from petroleum geology to geological carbon sequestration and …

Cs migration in soils at contaminated sites or in clay-rich backfill of waste disposal sites can
take place under partially saturated conditions. To understand the molecular mechanism of …

This review details a large panel of experimental studies (Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Quasi-
Elastic Neutron Scattering, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance relaxometry, Pulsed-Gradient Spin …

This study focuses on the role played by the interparticle and interlayer porosities, and the
preferred orientation of the particles on water diffusion in dual-porosity clayey media (ie …

Reactivity of minerals is controlled by chemical processes at mineral-fluid interfaces acting
at different time-and length scales. Various modeling approaches are available to …

Clay minerals are used in a wide number of natural or artificial materials for municipal or
nuclear waste management in which water diffusion is the principal transfer process …

Clays are used as barriers for the isolation of landfills and contaminated sites. They are
envisioned as long-term storage media for hazardous materials and radioactive wastes, and …

Packing structures of granular disks are reconstructed using magnetic resonance imaging
techniques. As packing fraction increases, the packing structure transforms from a nematic …

The role of the preferential orientation of clay platelets on the properties of a wide range of
natural and engineered clay-rich media is well established. However, a reference function …