Despite more than a century of research, drying shrinkage still causes unwanted stresses
and cracks in our concrete infrastructures. This is partly due to the lack of understanding of …

As a general-purpose force field for molecular simulations of layered materials and their fluid
interfaces, Clayff continues to see broad usage in atomistic computational modeling for …

Ion exchange in nanoporous clay-rich media plays an integral role in water, nutrient, and
contaminant storage and transport. In montmorillonite (MMT), a common clay mineral in …

Swelling clays are known to exhibit crystalline swelling at the layer scale (∼ nm): X-ray
diffraction (XRD) identifies discrete jumps in interlayer spacing upon a change in relative …

This paper presents the first effort to extract the hydromechanical properties of
montmorillonite quasi-crystals via nanoindentation testing of highly oriented montmorillonite …

This work focuses on the preparation and characterization of polystyrene/organoclay
nanocomposites. The effects of the nature of the organoclays and the method of preparation …

The study of ionic transport through hydrated sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT)—the main
swelling component of bentonite—is of significant interest to better understand its ability to …

Clays are the siblings of graphite and graphene/graphene-oxide. There are two basic ways
of using clays for encapsulation of sub-micron entities such as molecules, droplets, or …

Graphene oxide (GO) membranes offer exceptional promise for certain aqueous separation
challenges, such as desalination. Central to unlocking this promise and optimizing …

Smectite clay minerals have an outsize impact on the response of clay-rich media to
common stimuli, such as hydration and ion exchange, motivating extensive effort to …