Publisher Summary This chapter describes structures and mineralogy of clay minerals.
Phyllosilicates considered in this chapter ideally contain a continuous tetrahedral sheet …

Vibrational spectroscopy techniques provide a powerful approach to the study of
environmental materials and processes. These multifunctional analytical tools can be used …

Phyllosilicates, and among them clay minerals, are of great interest not only for the scientific
community but also for their potential applications in many novel and advanced areas …

This chapter presents typical mid-IR (MIR) and near-IR (NIR) spectra of different clay mineral
families and discusses how basic information on crystal chemistry can be derived. MIR …

The crystal structure of Keokuk kaolinite, including all H atoms, was refined in space group
C1 using low-temperature (1.5 K) neutron powder diffraction data (λ= 1.9102 Å) and Rietveld …

The dehydroxylation of a series of the kaolinite clay minerals, kaolinite, halloysite and
dickite, has been investigated by Fourier transform in situ infrared emission spectroscopy …

The theoretical infrared spectrum of kaolinite [Al2Si2O5 (OH) 4, triclinic] was computed using
ab initio quantum mechanical calculations. Calculations were performed using the Density …

The dehydroxylation reaction of kaolinite from the industrial kaolin Sl-K (Germany) has been
studied by thermal analyses (TG, DTA) and ex situ annealing experiments. Heating …

New hybrid clay adsorbent based on kaolinite clay and Carica papaya seeds with improved
cation exchange capacity (CEC), rate of heavy metal ion uptake, and adsorption capacity for …

In recent years, experimental and theoretical methods have provided new insights into the
size, shape, reactivity, and stability of clay minerals. Although diverse and complex, the …