Surface and Interface Chemistry of Clay Minerals

Surface and Interface Chemistry of Clay Minerals, Ninth Edition delivers a fundamental understanding of the surface and interface chemistry of clay minerals, thus serving as a valuable resource for researchers active in the fields of materials chemistry and sustainable chemistry. Clay minerals, with surfaces ranging from hydrophilic, to hydrophobic, are widely studied and used as adsorbents. Adsorption can occur at the edges and surfaces of clay mineral layers and particles, and in the interlayer region. This diversity in properties and the possibility to tune the surface properties of clay minerals to match the properties of adsorbed molecules is the basis for study.

The book requires a fundamental understanding of the surface and interface chemistry of clay minerals, and of the interaction between adsorbate and adsorbent.

Presents scientists and engineers with a resource they can rely on for their own research and work involving clay mineralsIncludes an in-depth look at ion exchange, adsorption, chemisorption, and catalysis occurrence at the surfaces of clay minerals

1. External and Internal Surfaces of Clay Minerals
Robert A. Schoonheydt, Faiza Bergaya and Cliff T. Johnston
2. Determination of Surface Areas
Laurent Michot
3. Quantum-chemical modeling of surfaces and of surface-adsorbate interactions 
Sergey V. Churakov and Xiandong Liu
4. Adsorbed water 
Cliff T. Johnston
5. Heavy metal adsorption, including radionuclides
Bart Baeyens and Maria Marques Fernandes
6. From transition metal ion complexes to chiral clay minerals 
Sato Hisako
7. Organic pollutants adsorption on clay minerals
Jean François Lambert
8. Proteins adsorption on clay minerals
Maguy Jaber, Jean François Lambert and Sébastien Balme
9. Clay mineral catalysts
Dipak Kumar Dutta
10. From polymers to clay mineral-polymer nanocomposites
Faiza Bergaya, Robert A. Schoonheydt and Fernando WYPYCH
11. From adsorbed dyes to optical materials
Jun Kawamata
12. Clay mineral films
Yasushi Umemura