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NANO LETTERS
卷 22, 期 7, 页码 2740-2747出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04609
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chemomechanical coupling e ff ect; nuclear waste repositories; evaporation; phyllosilicates; water transport
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- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0003525]
- DOE Spent Fuel and Waste Science & Technology (SFWST) Program
Swelling clay hydration/dehydration processes are significant in environmental and industrial applications. Experimental studies lack the ability to capture rapid water transport and structural changes in interlayers. Using molecular simulations and thermogravimetric analyses, researchers have observed a two-stage dehydration process in swelling clay, which is closely associated with interlayer collapse and changes in the coordination number of cations.
Swelling clay hydration/dehydration is important to many environmental and industrial processes. Experimental studies usually probe equilibrium hydration states in an averaged manner and thus cannot capture the fast water transport and structural change in interlayers during hydration/dehydration. Using molecular simulations and thermogravimetric analyses, we observe a two-stage dehydration process. The first stage is controlled by evaporation at the edges: water molecules near hydrophobic sites and the first few water molecules of the hydration shell of cations move fast to particle edges for evaporation. The second stage is controlled by slow desorption of the last 1-2 water molecules from the cations and slow transport through the interlayers. The two-stage dehydration is strongly coupled with interlayer collapse and the coordination number changes of cations, all of which depend on layer charge distribution. This mechanistic interpretation of clay dehydration can be key to the coupled chemomechanical behavior in natural/engineered barriers.
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