Driving force for the swelling of montmorillonite as affected by surface charge and exchangeable cations: A molecular dynamic study
Swelling of montmorillonite (MMT) is a nonnegligible factor in many industrial processes owing to its great ability to absorb water in interlayer space. It is not easy to determine whether the exchangeable cations or the MMT layers interacts much stronger with water molecules to provide the dominant...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-03-01
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Series: | Results in Physics |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971831828X |