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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Main Authors: Jianfei Peng, Hao Yi, Shaoxian Song, Weiquan Zhan, Yunliang Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-03-01
Series:Results in Physics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971831828X