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The distribution and dynamics of water molecules and monovalent cations (Li+, Na+, K+, Cs+, and H3O+) on muscovite surfaces were investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The direct comparison of calculated X-ray reflectivity profiles and electron density profiles with experiments revealed the precise structure at the aqueous monovalent electrolyte solutions/muscovite interface. To explain the experimentally observed electron density profiles for the CsCl solution-muscovite interface, the co-adsorption of Cs+ and Cl ion pairs would be necessary. Two types of inner-sphere complexes and one type of outer-sphere complex were observed for hydrated Li+ ions near the muscovite surface. For Na+, K+, Cs+, and H3O+ ions, the inner-sphere complexes were stable on the muscovite surface. The density oscillation of water molecules was observed to approximately 1.5 nm from the muscovite surface. The number of peaks and the locations for the density of water oxygen atoms were almost similar among the water molecules coordinated to Li+, Na+, K+, and H3O+ ions adsorbed on the muscovite surfaces. The water molecules around Cs+ ions that were adsorbed to muscovite surfaces seemed to avoid coordinating with Cs+ ions on the surface, and the density of water oxygen near the muscovite surface decreased relative to that in a bulk state. There was no significant difference in self-diffusion, viscosity, retention time, and reorientation time of water molecules among different cations adsorbed to muscovite surfaces. These translational and rotational motions of water molecules located at less than 1 nm from the muscovite surfaces were slower than those in a bulk state. A significant difference was observed for the exchange times of water molecules around monovalent cations. The exchange time of water molecules was long around Li+ ions and decreased with an increase in the ionic radius.  相似文献   

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The acid chemistry of confined waters in smectite interlayers have been investigated with first principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) simulations. Aiming at a systematic picture, we establish the model systems to take account of the three possible controlling factors: layer charge densities (0 e, 0.5 e and 1.0 e per cell), layer charge locations (tetrahedral and octahedral) and interlayer counterions (Na+ and Mg2+). For all models, the interlayer structures are characterized in detail. Na+ and Mg2+ show significantly different hydration characteristics: Mg2+ forms a rigid octahedral hydration shell and resides around the midplane, whereas Na+ binds to a basal oxygen atom and forms a very flexible hydration shell, which consists of five waters on average and shows very fast water exchanges. The method of constraint is employed to enforce the water dissociation reactions and the thermodynamic integration approach is used to derive the free-energy values and the acidity constants. Based on the simulations, the following points have been gained. (1) The layer charge is found to be the direct origin of water acidity enhancement in smectites because the neutral pore almost does not have influences on water dissociations but all charged pores do. (2) With a moderate charge density of 0.5 e per cell, the interlayer water shows a pKa value around 11.5. While increasing layer charge density to 1.0 e, no obvious difference is found for the free water molecules. Since 1.0 e is at the upper limit of smectites’ layer charge, it is proposed that the calculated acidity of free water in octahedrally substituted Mg2+-smectite, 11.3, can be taken as the lower limit of acidities of free waters. (3) In octahedrally and tetrahedrally substituted models, the bound waters of Mg2+ show very low pKa values: 10.1 vs 10.4. This evidences that smectites can also promote the dissociations of the coordinated waters of metal cations. The comparison between the two Mg2+-smectites reveals that different layer charge locations do not lead to obvious differences for bound and free water acidities.  相似文献   

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The structure and dynamics of water on muscovite mica (0 0 1) surfaces have been investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. X-ray reflectivity profiles highly reflecting the interfacial structure are directly calculated and compared with those of experiments. The direct comparison has validated the usefulness of MD simulations to understand the real interfacial structure of the mica−water system. We observed five distinguished peaks in the density profile of oxygen present in water, and these peaks are attributable to the water molecules directly adsorbed on mica, hydrated to the K+ ions on the mica surface, and ordered due to hydrogen bonds between hydrated K+ ions. The hydrated K+ ions make an inner-sphere complex and have an explicit first hydration shell with a radius of 3.6 Å and a hydration number of 2.9. The change of the viscosity of water located above 1 nm apart from the mica surface was not observed. This feature is in good agreement with a recent experimental study in which the shear measurement was conducted using a surface forces apparatus. The increase of the viscosity by a factor of ca. 2-3 relative to that of the bulk water was observed at water located within 1 nm from the isolated mica surface.  相似文献   

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The aim of the present work was to study the thermodynamic equilibria between water and a homo-ionic montmorillonite SWy-1 saturated by different cations. The choice of this smectite is justified by the large set of experimental data available from the literature for eight different interlayer cations: Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, and Ba2+. In particular, studies by [Cases et al., 1992], [Cases et al., 1997] and [Bérend et al., 1995] are providing heat of adsorption data, pairs of desorption-adsorption isotherms, and information about the partition of adsorption-desorption water molecules between external surfaces and internal spaces. By calculating the effective amount of hydration water as the difference between the so-called gravimetric water and the surface covering water, a thermodynamic model was then developed, based on the concept of Ransom and Helgeson (1994) considering an asymmetric subregular binary solid solution between a fully hydrated and a anhydrous smectite. A set of six thermodynamic parameters ( and four Margules parameters) was extracted by a least square method from measurements of enthalpies of adsorption and paired adsorption-desorption isotherms for each interlayer cation. These six initial parameters were then used to determine a complete set of standard thermodynamic hydration parameters (, heat capacity, molar volume, and number of interlayer H2O) and quantify, for each cation, the number of moles of hydration water molecules as a function of relative humidity and temperature. The validation of the standard state thermodynamic properties of hydration for each end member was carried out using three approaches: (1) a comparison with experimental isotherms obtained on hetero-ionic and homo-ionic SWy-1 smectite at different temperatures; (2) a comparison with the experimental integral enthalpy and entropy of hydration of the SWy-1 smectite; and (3) a comparison with experimental isotherms acquired on various smectites (Upton, MX80, Arizona) with different layer charges.Eventually, the present work demonstrates that, from a limited number of measurements, it is possible to provide the hydration thermodynamic parameters for hydrated smectites with different compositions and under different conditions of temperature and relative humidity, using the newly developed predictive model.  相似文献   

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We study the origin of the ionic exchange enthalpy in montmorillonite clays using microcalorimetry measurements and molecular simulation. We first determine the standard reaction enthalpy for well-defined interlayer water contents. We then show by a detailed analysis based on thermodynamic cycles that replacing Na+ ions by Cs+ in the interlayer of montmorillonite clays is an endothermic process, and that the overall exchange is exothermic only because it is dominated by the exothermic replacement of Cs+ by Na+ in the aqueous phase. This conclusion from ionic exchange enthalpies supports the one of a recent study of the ionic exchange free energy by Teppen and Miller [Teppen B. J. and Miller D. M. (2006) Hydration energy determines isovalent cation exchange selectivity by clay minerals. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J.70(1), 31-40] and contradicts long-held views on the role of ion-clay interactions in determining the ionic exchange thermodynamics. This calls for a paradigm shift for the origin of this exchange: The driving force is the “hydrophobicity” of Cs+ compared to Na+ and not its affinity for clay surfaces.  相似文献   

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The radioactive fission product, 137Cs, has been observed to mobilize from bottom sediments of two South Carolina reservoirs during summer thermal stratification and hypolimnetic anoxia. Mobilization is attributed to ion-exchange displacement of 137Cs from sediments by cations such as NH+4, Fe+2 and Mn+2 released under anaerobic conditions.Three types of 137Cs binding sites to sediment clay minerals are identified: 1) surface and planar sites from which 137Cs is generally exchangeable by all cations studied (Na+, NH+4, H+, Cs+, Ca+2, Mg+2, Fe+2, and Mn+2); 2) wedge sites where 137Cs exchange is sterically limited to cations of similar size and charge (NH+4, Cs+, K+, and perhaps H3O+); 3) interlayer sites from which 137Cs is not readily exchanged. More than 15 years after final 137Cs inputs, the reservoir sediments we studied showed the following percentage distribution of sites: 2 to 9% surface sites, 6 to 13% wedge sites, and 78 to 85% interlayer sites. In contrast, lake and stream sediments near Oak Ridge, Tennessee receiving 137Cs inputs more than 20 years earlier had greater than 99% of their 137Cs associated with non-exchangeable interlayer sites. The difference is attributed to the paucity in the South Carolina sediments of weathered micaceous clay minerals with their abundant interlayer sites. Such interlayer deficient clays are dominant in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States and elsewhere. This suggests that 137Cs will be physically and chemically more mobile in such areas as well as more biologically available. Mobility will be enhanced in regimes where cation inputs favoring 137Cs exchange occur. Subsurface waste disposal sites where anaerobic conditions develop with NH+4 production and Fe+2 and Mn+2 release might be such a regime.  相似文献   

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The interfacial structures of the basal surface of muscovite mica in solutions containing (1) 5 × 10−3 m BaCl2, (2) 500 ppm Elliott Soil Fulvic Acid I (ESFA I), (3) 100 ppm Elliott Soil Fulvic Acid II (ESFA II), (4) 100 ppm Pahokee Peat Fulvic Acid I (PPFA), and (5) 5 × 10−3 m BaCl2 and 100 ppm ESFA II were obtained with high resolution in-situ X-ray reflectivity. The derived electron-density profile in BaCl2 shows two sharp peaks near the mica surface at 1.98(2) and 3.02(4) Å corresponding to the heights of a mixture of Ba2+ ions and water molecules adsorbed in ditrigonal cavities and water molecules coordinated to the Ba2+ ions, respectively. This pattern indicates that most Ba2+ ions are adsorbed on the mica surface as inner-sphere complexes in a partially hydrated form. The amount of Ba2+ ions in the ditrigonal cavities compensates more than 90% of the layer charge of the mica surface. The electron-density profiles of the fulvic acids (FAs) adsorbed on the mica surface, in the absence of Ba2+, had overall thicknesses of 4.9-10.8 Å and consisted of one broad taller peak near the surface (likely hydrophobic and positively-charged groups) followed by a broad humped pattern (possibly containing negatively-charged functional groups). The total interfacial electron density and thickness of the FA layer increased as the solution FA concentration increased. The sorbed peat FA which has higher ash content showed a higher average electron density than the sorbed soil FA. When the muscovite reacted with a pre-mixed BaCl2-ESFA II solution, the positions of the two peaks nearest the surface matched those in the BaCl2 solution. However, the occupancy of the second peak decreased by about 30% implying that the hydration shell of surface-adsorbed Ba2+ was partially substituted by FA. The two surface peaks were followed by a broad less electron-dense layer suggesting a sorption mechanism in which Ba2+ acts dominantly as a bridging cation between the mica surface and FA. When the muscovite reacted first with FA and subsequently with BaCl2, more Ba2+ could be adsorbed on the FA-coated mica surface. The peak closest to the mica included Ba2+ ions adsorbed directly on the mica in an amount similar to that in the BaCl2 solution but more broadly distributed. A second peak observed within the FA layer suggests that the FA coating provides additional sites for Ba2+ sorption. The results indicate that enhanced uptake of heavy metals can occur when an organic coating already exists on a mineral surface.  相似文献   

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为了查明钠基蒙脱土的水合演化过程,以天然钠基蒙脱土为研究对象,开展在相对湿度( )为0~0.98区间的水汽等温吸-脱附试验,通过吸附速率曲线、BET曲线界定钠基蒙脱土各水合阶段及相应的水合主控因素;通过测定晶层 值变化规律,从吸附水影响黏土矿物晶层厚度的角度探讨钠基蒙脱土的水合演化特征;基于傅里叶红外光谱,从水分子结构伸缩振动信息角度对钠基蒙脱土水合演化过程进行定性定量验证;通过热重/差热分析,以吸附水相变所需能量与吸附水重量变化的角度解释钠基蒙脱土的吸附水特征与其水合机制的关系。试验结果表明:在较低相对湿度下(0 0.15),以钠基蒙脱土矿物外表面吸附为主,形成表面吸附水;0.15 0.40为钠基蒙脱土层间阳离子水合阶段;0.40 0.98,为晶层内外表面水合阶段,水分子逐步完整的包裹蒙脱土,形成多层吸附层。钠基蒙脱土的水合演化过程受控于层间钠离子与晶层基面,层间钠离子的水合能影响了钠基蒙脱土水合演化的起始顺序。  相似文献   

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醋酸钾/偏高岭石插层复合材料的制备及机理研究   总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0  
采用机械研磨法,成功制备了醋酸钾/偏高岭石插层复合材料.通过XRD、FTIR和TEM研究了插层前后偏高岭石结构的变化,提出了该复合材料的插层机理和结构模型:首先醋酸钾与水分子以配位键结合,然后通过机械研磨作用进入偏高岭石层间,并将偏高岭石片层撑开.当进行热处理时,水的挥发也会对偏高岭石片层起到撑开作用.最终导致偏高岭石被撑开、剥离.在插层复合材料中,醋酸根与偏高岭石的铝氧层通过水分子桥接方式连接,钾离子水合物为保持电中性,位于带负电的硅氧层附近.  相似文献   

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Diffusion experiments with HTO, 36Cl, Br, I, 22Na+, 85Sr2+ and 134Cs+ at trace concentrations in a single sample of Opalinus Clay are modeled with PHREEQC’s multicomponent diffusion module. The model is used first in a classical approach to derive accessible porosities, geometrical factors (the ratio of pore tortuosity and constrictivity) and sorption behavior of the individual tracers assuming that the clay is homogeneous. The accessible porosity for neutral species and cations is obtained from HTO, the anion exclusion volume from 36Cl and Br, and the cation exchange capacity from 22Na+. The homogeneous model works well for tritium, the anions and 22Na+. However, the 85Sr2+ and 134Cs+ experiments show an early arrival of the tracer and a front-form that suggest a dual porosity structure. A model with 10% dead-end pores, containing 19% of the total exchange capacity, can satisfactorily calculate all the experimental data. The Cs+ diffusion model builds on a 3-site exchange model, constructed from batch sorption data. The excellent agreement of modeled and measured data contradicts earlier reports that the exchange capacity for Cs+ would be smaller in diffusion than in batch experiments.The geometrical factors for the anions are 1.5 times larger than for HTO, and for the cations 2-4 times smaller than for HTO. The different behavior is explained by a tripartite division of the porespace in free porewater, diffuse double layer (DDL) water, and interlayer water in montmorillonite. Differences between estimated and observed geometrical factors for cations are attributed to increased ion-pairing of the divalent cations in DDL water as a result of the low relative dielectric permittivity. Interlayer and/or surface diffusion contributes significantly to the diffusive flux of Cs+ but is negligible for the other solutes. The geometrical factors for anions are higher than estimated, because pore constrictions with overlapping double layers force the anions to take longer routes than HTO and the cations. Small differences among the anions can also be attributed to different ion-pairing in DDL water.  相似文献   

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The Wyoming bentonite was saturated with alkali and alkaline earth cations and allowed to react hydrothermally for one month at 300°C, and one week and one month at 400°C. Generally, the rate of formation of collapsed layers for the alkali clays was inversely related to interlayer hydration energy. This pattern of reaction is expected if layer dehydration results from an attraction between negatively charged 2:1 layers and the positive interlayer cation. In this mechanism, the greater the hydration energy of the interlayer region, the greater the charge that must develop on the 2:1 layers to cause dehydration, and, therefore, the slower the reaction rate. Reaction rate for the alkaline earth clays was directly related to interlayer hydration energy. Clays saturated with cations of hydration energy equal to or greater than Na+ did not react at 300°C, and ceased to react at 50% expandable layers at 400°C. Those saturated with cations of lower hydration energy continued to form mica-like layers with increasing run time at both 300° and 400°C. Clays saturated with monovalent cations reacted by a process of gradual transformation of smectite layers into collapsed layers, whereas those with divalent cations reacted directly from the smectite structure to form a rectorite-like phase.  相似文献   

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Sorption of Cs to micaceous subsurface sediments from the Hanford site, USA   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
The sorption of Cs+ was investigated over a large concentration range (10−9−10−2 mol/L) on subsurface sediments from a United States nuclear materials site (Hanford) where high-level nuclear wastes (HLW) have been accidentally released to the vadose zone. The sediment sorbs large amounts of radiocesium, but expedited migration has been observed when HLW (a NaNO3 brine) is the carrier. Cs+ sorption was measured on homoionic sediments (Na+, K+, Ca2+) with electrolyte concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 1.0 mol/L. In Na+ electrolyte, concentrations were extended to near saturation with NaNO3(s) (7.0 mol/L). The sediment contained nonexpansible (biotite, muscovite) and expansible (vermiculite, smectite) phyllosilicates. The sorption data were interpreted according to the frayed edge-planar site conceptual model. A four-parameter, two-site (high- and low-affinity) numeric ion exchange model was effective in describing the sorption data. The high-affinity sites were ascribed to wedge zones on the micas where particle edges have partially expanded due to the removal of interlayer cations during weathering, and the low-affinity ones to planar sites on the expansible clays. The electrolyte cations competed with Cs+ for both high- and low-affinity sites according to the trend K+ >> Na+ ≥ Ca2+. At high salt concentration, Cs+ adsorption occurred only on high-affinity sites. Na+ was an effective competitor for the high-affinity sites at high salt concentrations. In select experiments, silver-thiourea (AgTU) was used as a blocking agent to further isolate and characterize the high-affinity sites, but the method was found to be problematic. Mica particles were handpicked from the sediment, contacted with Cs+(aq), and analyzed by electron microprobe to identify phases and features important to Cs+ sorption. The microprobe study implied that biotite was the primary contributor of high-affinity sites because of its weathered periphery. The poly-phase sediment exhibited close similarity in ion selectivity to illite, which has been well studied, although its proportion of high-affinity sites relative to the cation exchange capacity (CEC) was lower than that of illite. Important insights are provided on how Na+ in HLW and indigenous K+ displaced from the sediments may act to expedite the migration of strongly sorbing Cs+ in subsurface environments.  相似文献   

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Using a surface forces apparatus (SFA), we have studied the interactions between mica surfaces in pure and mixed NaCl and CaCl2 solutions at relevant geological conditions of pressure and electrolyte composition. Our results show that the short-range (0-50 Å) colloidal forces, including attractive van der Waals and ion-correlation forces, repulsive electrostatic forces, and oscillatory or monotonically repulsive hydration (surface-induced water structure-dependent) forces are involved in different stages of pressure solution. These forces depend on the type (Na+, Ca2+, and H+) and concentration (6-600 mM) of the cations present in the solution. Equilibrium water film thicknesses were measured as a function of the applied (normal) pressure up to 50 MPa (500 atm) and ranged from 30 to 0 Å at pressures above 10 MPa (100 atm). Measurements were also made of the rates of diffusion and exchange of ions into and out of such ultrathin films, and on the nucleation and growth of ionic crystallites on and between the surfaces, which occurred only in the presence of calcium ions. Diffusion of ions into and out of structured water films as thin as one to five water molecules (3 to 15 Å) were found to be surprisingly rapid and never less than two orders of magnitude below the diffusion in bulk water. In contrast, the rates of binding and exchange of ions to the surfaces were found to be the rate-limiting steps to adsorption and crystal formation. These findings imply that, for certain systems or conditions, pressure solution rates could be limited by surface reactions rather than by ion diffusion in thin fluid films.  相似文献   

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Interaction of dissolved aqueous species with natural organic matter (NOM) is thought to be important in sequestering some species and enhancing the transport of others, but little is known about these interactions on a molecular scale. This paper describes a combined experimental 133Cs and 35Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and computational molecular dynamics (MD) modeling study of the interaction of Cs+ and Cl with Suwannee River NOM. The results provide a detailed picture of the molecular-scale structure and dynamics of these interactions. Individual NOM molecules are typically hundreds to thousands of Daltons in weight, and on the molecular scale their interaction with small dissolved species can be investigated in ways similar to those used to study the interaction of dissolved aqueous species with mineral surfaces. As for such surface interactions, understanding both the structural environments and the dynamics over a wide range of frequencies is essential. The NMR results show that Cs+ is associated with NOM at pH values from 3.4 ± 0.5 (unbuffered Suwannee River NOM solution) to 9.0 ± 0.5. The extent of interaction increases with decreasing CsCl concentration at constant pH. It also decreases with increasing pH at constant CsCl concentration due to pH-dependent negative structural charge development on the NOM caused by progressive deprotonation of carboxylic and phenolic groups. The presence of NOM has little effect on the 133Cs chemical shifts, demonstrating that its local coordination environment does not change significantly due to interaction with the NOM. Narrow, solution-like line widths indicate rapid exchange of Cs+ between the NOM and bulk solution at frequencies of >102 Hz. The MD simulations support these results and show that Cs+ is associated with the NOM principally as outer sphere complexes and that this interaction does not reduce the Cs+ diffusion coefficient sufficiently to cause NMR line broadening. The 35Cl NMR data and the MD results are consistent in demonstrating that there is no significant complexation between Cl and NOM in the pH range investigated, consistent with negative structural charge on the NOM.  相似文献   

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The structure and dynamics of 2-dimensional fluids in swelling clays   总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3  
The interlayer pores of swelling 2:1 clays provide an ideal 2-dimensional environment in which to study confined fluids. In this paper we discuss our understanding of the structure and dynamics of interlayer fluid species in expanded clays, based primarily on the outcome of recent molecular modelling and neutron scattering studies. Counterion solvation is compared with that measured in bulk solutions, and at a local level the cation-oxygen coordination is found to be remarkably similar in these two environments. However, for the monovalent ions the contribution to the first coordination shell from the clay surfaces increases with counterion radius. This gives rise to inner-sphere (surface) complexes in the case of potassium and caesium. In this context, the location of the negative clay surface charge (i.e. arising from octahedral or tetrahedral substitution) is also found to be of major importance. Divalent cations, such as calcium, eagerly solvate to form outer-sphere complexes. These complexes are able to pin adjacent clay layers together, and thereby prevent colloidal swelling. Confined water molecules form hydrogen bonds to each other and to the clays' surfaces. In this way their local environment relaxes to close to the bulk water structure within two molecular layers of the clay surface. Finally, we discuss the way in which the simple organic molecules methane, methanol and ethylene glycol behave in the interlayer region of hydrated clays. Quasi-elastic neutron scattering of isotopically labelled interlayer CH3OD and (CH2OD)2 in deuterated clay allows us to measure the diffusion of the CH3- and CH2-groups in both clay and liquid environments. We find that in both the one-layer methanol solvates and the two-layer glycol solvates the diffusion of the most mobile organic molecules is close to that in the bulk solution.  相似文献   

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Using a simple ionic model with polarizable oxygen ions and dissociating water molecules, we have calculated the energetics governing the distribution of Fe(II)/Fe(III) ions at the reduced (2 × 1) surface of α-Fe2O3 (hematite) (0 1 2) under dry and hydrated conditions. The results show that systems with Fe(II) ions located in the near-surface region have lower potential energy for both dry and hydrated surfaces. The distribution is governed by coupling of the ferrous iron centers to positive charge associated with missing oxygen atoms on the dry reduced (2 × 1) (0 2 1) surface. As the surface is hydroxylated, the missing oxygen rows are filled and protons from dissociated water molecules become the positive charge centers, which couple more weakly to the ferrous iron centers. At the same time, the first-layer iron centers change from fourfold or fivefold coordination to sixfold coordination lowering the potential energy of ferric iron in the first layer and favoring migration of ferrous iron from the immediate surface sites. This effect can also be understood as reflecting stronger solvation of Fe(III) by the adsorbed water molecules and by hydrolysis reactions favoring Fe(III) ions at the immediate surface. The balance between these two driving forces, which changes as a function of hydration, provides a compelling explanation for the anomalous coverage dependence of water desorption in ultra-high vacuum experiments.  相似文献   

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Drying induced pH changes were quantified on the surface of Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and Al3+ saturated smectite and kaolinite clays. This was achieved using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy to measure real time changes to a pH indicator, sorbed to the clay mineral surface, during wetting and drying events. Using this technique it was possible to measure how low the pH of the surface drops during dehydration, the critical water content at which acidification of the surface begins and lastly how reversible the pH decrease is. The results show that only Al3+-smectite shows acidification below pH 4.8 with drying. The pH starts to decrease on the Al3+-smectite surface even when significantly hydrated (gravimetric water content ∼ 125 mg/m2), and falls to between 1.2 and 1.4 when completely air dry. The drying induced pH decrease is completely reversible on rewetting, suggesting large pH oscillations may occur on smectite surfaces with appreciable exchangeable Al3+. Aluminium saturated kaolinite did not show significant acidification in response to drying (pH > 3.5), however, a 0.1 M AlCl3 solution evaporated to a final pH of 2.8. The enhanced acidification observed on an Al-smectite clay compared to a solution containing free Al3+ ions highlights the role of highly charged surfaces in the hydrolysis reaction that occurs within the hydration shell of exchangeable Al3+ ions.  相似文献   

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The influence of background electrolytes on the mechanism and kinetics of calcite dissolution was investigated using in situ Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Experiments were carried out far from equilibrium by passing alkali halide salt (NaCl, NaF, NaI, KCl and LiCl) solutions over calcite cleavage surfaces. This AFM study shows that all the electrolytes tested enhance the calcite dissolution rate. The effect and its magnitude is determined by the nature and concentration of the electrolyte solution. Changes in morphology of dissolution etch pits and dissolution rates are interpreted in terms of modification in water structure dynamics (i.e. in the activation energy barrier of breaking water-water interactions), as well as solute and surface hydration induced by the presence of different ions in solution. At low ionic strength, stabilization of water hydration shells of calcium ions by non-paired electrolytes leads to a reduction in the calcite dissolution rate compared to pure water. At high ionic strength, salts with a common anion yield similar dissolution rates, increasing in the order Cl < I < F for salts with a common cation due to an increasing mobility of water around the calcium ion. Changes in etch pit morphology observed in the presence of F and Li+ are explained by stabilization of etch pit edges bonded by like-charged ions and ion incorporation, respectively. As previously reported and confirmed here for the case of F, highly hydrated ions increased the etch pit nucleation density on calcite surfaces compared to pure water. This may be related to a reduction in the energy barrier for etch pit nucleation due to disruption of the surface hydration layer.  相似文献   

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Quantitative characterization of the development of proton surface charge on the surfaces of minerals is necessary for a fundamental understanding of reactions between minerals and aqueous electrolyte solutions. Despite many experimental studies of charge development, few attempts have been made to integrate the results of such studies with a theoretical framework that permits prediction. The present study builds on a theoretical framework to analyze a total of 55 sets of proton surface charge data referring to wide ranges of ionic strengths, and types of electrolyte and oxide. The resulting parameters were interpreted with the aid of crystal chemical, electrostatic, and thermodynamic theory, which enable a number of generalizations. Prediction of values of the pHZPC and ΔpKnθ reduces the number of triple-layer parameters to be estimated. New standard states for the equilibrium constants for electrolyte adsorption (KM+θ and KLθ) permit direct comparison of samples with a range of surface areas or site densities. Predicted cation binding on high dielectric constant solids (e.g., rutile) shows KM+θ, increasing in the sequence Cs+, Rb+, K+, Na+, Li+. In contrast, on low dielectric constant solids (e.g., amorphous silica), the predicted sequence is Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+. The opposite sequences are attributable to the large solvation energy contribution opposing adsorption on low-dielectric constant solids. Cation and anion binding constants are in general different, which enables direct prediction of the point-of-zero-salt effect (pHPZSE) relative to the pristine point-of-zero charge. The inner and outer capacitances in the triple-layer model (C1 and C2) are predictable parameters consistent with physically reasonable distances and interfacial dielectric constants for water. In summary, all the parameters in the triple-layer model can be estimated with the revised equations of this study, which enables prediction of proton surface charge for any oxide in 1:1 electrolyte solutions independent of experiments. Such predictions can serve as a complement to the experimental study of new oxide/electrolyte systems, or more complex systems, where additional mechanisms of charge development are likely.  相似文献   

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