TY - JOUR AU - Daab, Matthias AU - Eichstaedt, Natalie J. AU - Habel, Christoph AU - Rosenfeldt, Sabine AU - Kalo, Hussein AU - Schießling, Hubert AU - Förster, Stephan AU - Breu, Josef TI - Onset of Osmotic Swelling in Highly Charged Clay Minerals JO - Langmuir VL - 34 IS - 28 SN - 1520-5827 CY - Washington, DC PB - ACS Publ. M1 - FZJ-2019-00772 SP - 8215 - 8222 PY - 2018 AB - Delamination by osmotic swelling of layered materials is generally thought to become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, with increasing layer charge density because of strong Coulomb interactions. Nevertheless, for the class of 2:1 layered silicates, very few examples of delaminating organo-vermiculites were reported in literature. We propose a mechanism for this repulsive osmotic swelling of highly charged vermiculites based on repulsive counterion translational entropy that dominates the interaction of adjacent layers above a certain threshold separation. Based on this mechanistic insight, we were able to identify several organic interlayer cations appropriate to delaminate highly charged, vermiculite-type clay minerals. These findings suggest that the osmotic swelling of highly charged organoclays is a generally applicable phenomenon rather than the odd exemption. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:29924623 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000439398100009 DO - DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00492 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859966 ER -