Publications related to Illite

Dislocation Motion and the Microphysics of Flash Heating and Weakening of Faults during Earthquakes

Earthquakes are the result of slip along faults and are due to the decrease of rock frictional strength (dynamic weakening) with increasing slip and slip rate. Friction experiments simulating the abrupt accelerations (>>10 m/s(2)), slip rates (similar to 1 ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Alkali uptake in calcium alumina silicate hydrate (C-A-S-H)

Karen Scrivener, Émilie Michèle L'Hôpital

Uptake of the alkalis K and Na by calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) and calcium alumina silicate hydrate (C-A-S-H) of molar Ca/Si ratios = 0.6 to 1.6 and molar Al/Si ratio = 0 or 0.05 has been studied at 20 degrees C. Alkalis are thought to be bound in the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

On the Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Remoulded and Natural Opalinus Clay Shale

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Valentina Favero

The geo-energy sector makes use of advanced technologies such as shale gas extraction, CO2 sequestration and nuclear waste geological disposal that rely on the exploitation of shale formations. Due to the great depths involved in these applications and the ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Structural and photocatalytic properties of perovskite-type (La,Ca)Ti(O,N)(3) prepared from A-site deficient precursors

Michael Graetzel, Takashi Hisatomi

Two series of oxide precursors for perovskite-type (La,Ca)Ti(O,N)(3) were prepared by adding Ca2+ to A-site deficient LaTiO3.5 heterogeneously (Ca2+-backfilling) or by substituting Ca2+ for La3+ in stoichiometric LaTiO3.5 homogeneously (Ca2+-substitution). ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Design and fabrication of compositionally graded inorganic oxide thin films: Mechanical, optical and permeation characteristics

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Yves Leterrier, Xavier Bulliard

Different types of inorganic oxide films composed of a chemical composition gradient single layer were designed, fabricated and characterized. Compositionally graded thin films were created by power-controlled co-sputtering of alumina (Al2O3) and silica (S ...

Elsevier2010

Water adsorption on a sodium smectite clay surface: an ab initio study

John Christopher Plummer, Pascal Clausen

Using calculations based on density-functional theory, we explore the configurations that water molecules (2,3,4;6) assume on the surface a sodium 2:1 smectite clay with isomorphic substitutions both on octahedral and tetrahedral sheets. The hydrophilicity ...

2009

Adsorption of low-molecular-weight molecules on the surface of a sodium smectite clay: an ab initio study

John Christopher Plummer, Wanda Andreoni, Pascal Clausen, Alessandro Curioni

We present a study of the adsorption of single molecules of volatiles, such as water, ethanol, ethyl acetate, pyridine, toluene, and n-octane, on the dry surface of a smectite clay using a series of calculations based on density functional theory. Our clay ...

2009

Release kinetics of volatiles from smectite clay minerals

Pascal Clausen

The focus of this thesis was on the mechanisms of release of volatile molecules from smectite clay minerals. The weight loss was monitored by thermogravimetry, differential calorimetry, and mass spectrometry under isothermal conditions and under ramp tempe ...

EPFL2009

Equilibrium desorption isotherms of water, ethanol, ethyl acetate and toluene on a sodium smectite clay

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, John Christopher Plummer, Pascal Clausen

Desorption isotherms for water, ethanol, ethyl acetate and toluene from a sodium smectite clay have been determined by both dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) measurements and Knudsen thermogravimetry (KTGA), at the exception of toluene that was measured only by ...

Springer Netherlands2009

Neutron diffraction studies of nuclear and magnetic structures in the S=1/2 square Heisenberg antiferromagnets (d(6)-5CAP)(2)CuX4 (X=Br and Cl)

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow

We report the neutron scattering studies of the nuclear and magnetic structures of deuterated samples of the model two-dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets on a square lattice, (d(6)-5CAP)(2)CuCl4 and (d(6)-5CAP)(2)CuBr4 (where 5CAP is 2-amino-5-c ...

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC2007