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

Smectite clay minerals and their suspensions have long been of both great scientific and
applications interest and continue to display a remarkable range of new and interesting …

Acid–base chemistry of clay minerals is central to their interfacial properties, but up to now a
quantitative understanding on the surface acidity is still lacking. In this study, with first …

CO2 hydrate nucleation on the surfaces of clay minerals is important because it is related to
CO2 storage in marine sediments. In this study, heterogeneous nucleation of CO2 hydrates …

Environmental and technical issues associated with hydraulic fracturing fluid leak‐off and its
low recovery in clay‐rich shale reservoirs has challenged the energy sector. One of the main …

We have carried out molecular simulations in the grand-canonical ensemble of water and
cations in Wyoming and Arizona montmorillonite clay minerals, with varying relative …

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 …

We report a Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations study of carbon dioxide in
hydrated sodium montmorillonite, including thermodynamical, structural, and dynamical …

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate the effects of the external surface
of a 2: 1 clay mineral with different charge amounts and charge locations on CH4 hydrate …

Molecular dynamic simulations are employed to study the crystalline swelling behavior of
montmorillonites (MMTs) with different interlayer Na+ and Ca 2+ ion compositions, and the …