title: Intercalated water in synthetic fluorhectorite clay.
abstract: (7)Li and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance together with X-ray diffraction measurements in powdered samples and pseudocrystalline films of synthetic fluorhectorite as a function of relative ambient humidity permit to address several aspects of the structure and dynamics of intercalated water molecules. The role of proton exchange as a possibly dominant mechanism of charge transport in the one-water layer regime of hydration is reexamined. The experimental results in Li-fluorhectorite support the result of molecular simulations which predict, for Li-montmorillonite, the existence of an intermediate regime, between one-water layer and two-water layer states.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduacao em Ciência de Materiais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rômulo P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Tenório
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Engelsberg
authors.forename: Jon Otto
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Fossum
authors.forename: Geraldo J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: da Silva