Conference Program


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Friday, June 8, 2018

6:00 pm-10:00 pm Executive Committee Meeting and Dinner | Room 210

Saturday, June 9, 2018

7:30 am-5:30 pm Registration | Illini Rooms A, B, C Foyer
8:00 am-5:00 pm  CMS Council Meeting | Room 314
8:00 am-5:00 pm  Workshop: Medicinal Applications of Clay Minerals | Room 210
6:00 pm-8:00 pm Informal BBQ | Bus leaves front of Illini Union at 5:30 pm

Sunday, June 10, 2018

8:00 am-6:00 pm Field Trip: Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks
7:00 am-6:00 pm  Field Trip: Kaolinite in the Keokuk Geodes 
5:00 pm-7:00 pm  Registration | South Lounge 
6:00 pm-8:00 pm Welcome Reception & Student Welcome | South Lounge

Monday, June 11, 2018

Poster Presentation Setup in the Pine Room from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm today.

Authors will be present this afternoon from 5:40–8:00 pm in the Pine Room.

7:30 am-5:00 pm  Registration | Illini Rooms A, B, C Foyer 

Monday Morning Sessions

Plenary Session | Illini Room A

8:00 am-8:10 am Introductory Remarks, Yuji Arai, General Chair
8:10 am-8:20 am  Welcoming Remarks, UIUC Provost Andreas C. Cangellaris 
8:20 am-8:30 am  Introductory Remarks, CMS President, D. McCarty 
8:30 am-8:45 am  Special Recognition Award to Dewey Moore 
Introduction by Georg Grathoff, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt, Universitat, Greifswald
 
 
8:45 am-8:55 am  Introduction of the 2018 Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award Recipient, Kevin Murphy, Managing Editor, Clays and Clay Minerals 
 
 
8:55 am-9:40 am  Acceptance and Presentation
Stephen Hillier: DIGITAL SOIL MINERALOGY (Jackson Award Lecture) 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Break 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room A

Abiotic Redox Processes Related to Clays and Clay Minerals
Organizers: Yuanzhi Tang and Xiancai Lu

10:00 am-10:20 am  Alan Stone*, Xiaomeng Xia, and Weichen Liao: ADDING HYDRATION, TAUTOMERIZATION, AND NUCLEOPHILIC ATTACK TO OUR CONCEPTUALIZATION OF REDOX REACTIONS AT OXYHYDROXIDE MINERAL SURFACES TO IMPROVE REACTIVITY PREDICTIONS 
 
 
 
10:20 am-10:40 am  Jeffrey Catalano*, Elaine D. Flynn, and Margaret A. G. Hinkle: REDUCTION OF PHYLLOMANGANATES BY ORGANIC ACIDS: EFFECTS ON MINERAL STRUCTURE AND TRACE METAL FATE 
 
 
Matthew Ginder-Vogel and Lily Schacht: LIMITATIONS OF OBSERVED FIRST ORDER RATE CONSTANTS: A CASE STUDY ON As(III) DEPLETION BY Mn OXIDES 
10:40 am-11:00 am
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Mengqiang Zhu* and Qian Wang: DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL AND COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES OF BIRNESSITE DURING REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am Ao Qian, Chao Pan, Daniel E. Giammar, Songhu Yuan, and Zimeng Wang*: AQUEOUS COMPLEXATION AND DISPROPORTIONATION OF Mn(III) IN THE PRESENCE OF PYROPHOSPHATE: IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS ROLE AS A GEOCHEMICAL OXIDANT 
 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Martial Taillefert: ROLE OF SOLUBLE Fe(III) COMPLEXES IN IRON REDOX REACTIONS 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm  Lunch On Your Own

Technical Sessions | Illini Room B

Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy to Clay Mineral Systems
Organizers: Sabine Petit and Jana Madejova

10:00 am-10:20 am  Nicolas Mangold*, John Carter, Fabien Baron, Erwin Dehouck, Anne Gaudin, Damien Loizeau, and François Poulet: IMPORTANCE AND DIVERSITY OF GEOLOGICAL SETTINGS OF ALUMINUM-RICH CLAY MINERALS ON MARS 
 
 
10:20 am-10:40 am  John Carter*, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Nicolas Mangold, and the OMEGA1 and CRISM3 teams: THE CLAY STORY OF ANCIENT MARS, AN UPDATE 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am Sabine Petit*, Jan Środoń, Daniel Beaufort, and Małgorzata Lempart: STUDY OF BASALTIC PIECES OF ROCKS BY ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY (ATR) AND NEAR INFRARED (NIR) SPECTROSCOPY 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Michal Ritz*, and Lenka Vaculíková: QUANTIFICATION OF PREDOMINANT MINERALS IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS BY CHEMOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INFRARED SPECTRA 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Stephan Kaufhold*, K. Ufer, and R. Dohrmann: HOW WE USED IR-SPECTROSCOPY IN THE REYNOLDS CUP 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Bella B. Zviagina*, Victor A. Drits, and Olga V. Dorzhieva: DISTINGUISHING FEATURES AND IDENTIFICATION CRITERIA FOR K- DIOCTAHEDRAL MICAS (ILLITE-ALUMINOCELADONITE AND ILLITE-GLAUCONITE-CELADONITE SERIES) FROM MIDDLE-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY DATA 
 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm  Lunch On Your Own

Technical Sessions | Illini Room C

New Visions in Clay Science: Bio-nanoclays in Medicine
Organizers: Jin-Ho Choy and Lynda B. Williams

10:00 am-10:20 am  Ray Ferrell*: EXPANDED USE OF CLAYS IN MEDICINE LINKED TO MODERN CHARACTERIZATION METHODS AND IN VITRO AND IN VIVO INVESTIGATIONS 
 
 
10:20 am-10:40 am Robert Finkelman*: THE INFLUENCE OF CLAYS ON HUMAN HEALTH: A MEDICAL GEOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
 
10:40 am-11:00 am Soo-Jin Choi*: TOXICITY MECHANISM, TOXICOKINETICS, AND IN VIVO TOXICITY OF CLAY MINERALS 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Jin Yu*, and Soo Jin Choi: TOXICITY MECHANISM OF LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDE NANOPARTICLE-INDCED OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INFLAMMAITON IN HUMAN LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Keith Morrison* and Lynda B. Williams: THE ANATOMY OF AN ANTIBACTERIAL CLAY DEPOSIT 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Suzannah Schmidt-Malan*, K.M. Caflisch, J.N. Mandrekar, and L.B. Williams, and R. Patel: ACTIVITY OF ANTIBACTERIAL CLAY AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm  Lunch On Your Own 

Technical Sessions | Room 210

General Session
Organizers: Martin Pentrak and Linda Pentrakova

10:00 am-10:20 am Paolo Andre Benavides*, Jacqueline Kowalik, Stephen Guggenheim, and August F. Koster van Groos: EFFECT OF CO2 PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND BRINE COMPOSITION ON THE INTERLAYER SPACING OF Na- AND Ca-EXCHANGED MONTOMORILLONITE 
 
 
 
10:20 am-10:40 am  Mark Raven*, and Stephen Hillier: DIFFERENTIATING DEHYDRATED HALLOYSITE FROM KAOLINITE USING X RAY DIFFRACTION METHODS 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Mohammed A. Gondal* and A.M. Ilyas: SYNTHESIS OF QUATERNARY (ZnO/TiO2/CdS/SiC) NANO-COMPOSITES USING ADVANCED PULSED LASER ABLATION TECHNIQUE 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am Wei-Hsiang Hung* and Bing-Sheng Yu: OPTIMIZATION OF ORGANO-MODIFIED SMECTITE OF HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS SMECTITE BY TAGUCHI METHOD 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Sanda Maicaneanu* and Horea Bedelean: MONTMORILLONITIC CLAY APPLICATIONS IN WASTE WATER TREATMENT 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Martin Pentrak*: INVESTIGATION OF CLAY MINERALS AT THE ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm Lunch On Your Own 


Monday Afternoon Sessions

Technical Sessions | Illini Room A

Abiotic Redox Processes Related to Clays and Clay Minerals
Organizers: Yuanzhi Tang and Xiancai Lu

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Peng Yang*, Seungyeol Lee, Jeffrey E. Post, Huifang Xu, Qian Wang, Wenqian Xu, and Mengqiang Zhu: RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF LAYERED TO TUNNELED MANGANESE OXIDES TRIGGERED BY TRIVALENT MANGANESE ADSORBED ON VACANCIES 
 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm  Michael E. Bishop, Hailiang Dong*, Paul Glasser, Brandon R. Briggs, Martin Pentrak, and Joseph W. Stucki: IRON REDOX CYCLING OF SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS FROM HANFORD SITE, WASHINGTON STATE, USA 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Young-Shin Jun* and Lijie Zhang: REDOX DEGRADITION OF PHOSPHONATE WITH Fe-BEARING CLAY MINERALS UNDER SUBSURFACE RELEVANT CONDITIONS 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Dong Ma* and Mengqiang Zhu: COUPLED REDOX CYCLING OF MANGANESE AND CARBON ON IRON OXIDE SURFACES 
 
2:40 pm-3:00 pm  Aaron Betts*, Matthew Siebecker, and Donald L. Sparks: OXIDATION STATUS OF SUBSOIL CLAY DURING Fe(II) SORPTION ALTERS THE COMPOSITION OF PRECIPITATED Fe(II)-BEARING LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES
 
 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm  Malgorzata Lempart*, Arkadiusz Derkowski, Katarzyna Luberda-Durnas´, and Artur Błachowski: THE CONTRIBUTION OF DEHYDROGENATION IN THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF Fe(II)-CONTAINING CHLORITES 
 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break 
3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Linda Pentrakova*, Martin Pentrak, and Joseph W. Stucki: THE INFLUENCE OF TETRAHEDRAL AND OCTAHEDRAL IRON IN SMECTITES ON THEIR REDOX ACTIVITY IN NITRATE REMOVAL 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Qiang Zeng*, Hailiang Dong, and Xi Wang: EFFECT OF LIGANDS ON THE OXIDANT PRODUCTION FROM OXYGENATION OF REDUCED NONTRONITE 
 
 

Illite-smectite Group in Geoloqical Systems Soils Laboratory and Computer: The Complete Picture
Organizers: W. Crawford Elliott and Jan Środoń

4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Georg Grathoff*, Jared Freiburg, Kevin Henkel, and Klaus Wemmer: COMPARING ILLIIZATION IN LOWER PALEOZOIC SHALES AND SANDSTONES OF THE ILLINOIS BASIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE 
 
 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Arkadiusz Derkowski* and Douglas K. McCarty: RETENTION ON ILLITE CRYSTALLITE EDGES CONTRIBUTES TO CESIUM CYCLING IN THE UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST
 
 
5:00 pm-5:20 pm  Artur Kuligiewicz, Arkadiusz Derkowski*, Jan Środoń, Vassilis Gionis, and Georgios D. Chryssikos: POLARITY OF ILLITESMECTITE FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES REVISITED: NEW EVIDENCE FROM VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS 
 
 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room B

Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy to Clay Mineral Systems
Organizers: Sabine Petit and Jana Madejova

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Fabien Baron*, Anne Gaudin, Nicolas Mangold, and Sabine Petit: A DETAILED INTERPRETATION OF THE NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM OF KAOLINITE 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm  Lenka Vaculikova*, Eva Plevova, Vera Valovicova, Michal Ritz, and Lenka Blahova: COMPARISON OF INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTRA FOR STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MONTMORILLONITES 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm Will Gates*, Heloisa N. Bordallo, Laurie P. Aldridge, Sylvia M. Mutisya, José E.M. Pereira, Caetano R. Miranda, and Anton P.J. Stampfl: GENERALIZED (VIBRATIONAL) DENSITY OF STATES OF WATER IN SODIUM MONTMORILLONITE 
 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Brian Gregoire*, Eric Ferrage, Fabien Hubert, Thomas Dabat, and Sabine Petit: WHAT POLARIZED ATR-FTIR SPECTROSCOPY CAN TELL US ABOUT CLAY MINERALS? 
 
 
2:40 pm-3:00pm  Giora Rytwo*: FTIR BASED QUANTIFICATION OF ADSORBED COMPOUNDS ON CLAYS 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm  Jana Madejová*, Michal Slaný, and Ľuboš Jankovič: CONFORMATION OF ALKYLAMMONIUM CATIONS IN MONTMORILLONITE INTERLAYERS AS REVEALED BY NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY 
 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break 
3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Runliang Zhu*, Hongping He, and Jianxi Zhu: EFFECT OF SURFACTANT PACKING DENSITY ON THE SORPTION OF HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS ON ORGANOCLAYS
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Helena Pálková*, Martin Barlog, Lukáš Petra, Jana Madejová, Peter Bilik, Erik Šimon, and Juraj Bujdák: VERSATILITY OF INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CLAY MINERALS EXPOSED TO VARIOUS MODIFICATIONS 
 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Anna Koteja* and Jakub Matusik: MONITORING THE AZOBENZENE ISOMERIZATION IN LAYERED INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS USING THE INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY 
 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Malgorzata Zimowska*, Helena Pálková, Jana Madejová, and Robert P. Socha: FTIR SPECTROSCOPY TO STUDY FORMATION AND FUNCTIONALISATION OF POROUS CLAY HETEROSTRUCTURES DERIVED FROM LAPONITE 
 
 
 
5:00 pm-5:20 pm  Ana Barrientos* and Youjun Deng: RE-EVALUATE THE STRETCHING INFRARED BANDS OF INTERLAYER WATER IN SMECTITE AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN INTERPRETING THE SMECTITE-ORGANIC BONDING MECHANISMS
 
 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room C

New Visions in Clay Science: Bio-nanoclays in Medicine
Organizers: Jin-Ho Choy and Lynda Williams

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Shekooh Behroozian*, Sarah L. Svensson, Wanjing Xu, Mariko Ikehata, Slade Loutet, Loretta Li, Michael E.P. Murphy, and Julian Davies: ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERIES OF KISAMEET CLAY, A NATURAL CLAY MINERAL FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 
 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm  Xi Wang, Hailiang Dong*, Qiang Zeng, Qingyin Xia, Limin Zhang, and Ziqi Zhou: REDUCED IRON-CONTAINING CLAY MINERALS AS ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS AND FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE ITS EFFICIENCY 
 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm Mark Peterman* and Larry A. Hanson: BACTERICIDAL EFFICACY OF SELECT CLAY MINERALS UPON A VIRULENT STRAIN OF AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Andrei Barkovskii*, Rachel Brineman, and Terrell Scott Johnson: REMOVAL OF MICROORGANISMS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS WITH CALCINED KAOLIN AND DIATOMACEOUS EARTH 
 
 
2:40 pm-3:00pm  Jin-Ho Choy*: 10B-CARBORATE-CLAY HYBRID SYSTEMS FOR BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm  César Viseras*, Esperanza Carazo, Ana Borrego-Sánchez, Fátima García-Villén, Rita Sánchez-Espejo, Pilar Cerezo, and Carola Aguzzi: MONTMORILLONITE AS VEHICLE OF TUBERCULOSTATIC ISONIAZID 
 
 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break 
3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Goeun Choi* and Jin-Ho Choy: TUMOR TARGETING DRUG-CLAY HYBRID DELIVERY SYSTEM IN THE ORTHOTOPIC CERVICAL CANCER MODEL
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Pilar Aranda*, Ediana P. Rebitski, Margarita Darder, Raffaele Carraro, and Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky: MONTMORILLONITE BASED HYBRIDS FOR METFORMIN CONTROLLING DELIVERY 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Zhi Ping Xu*, and Weiyu Chen: CLAY NANOPARTICLES AS EFFICIENT VACCINE ADJUVANTS FOR ANIMAL AND HUMAN HEALTH 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Youjun Deng*, Chun-Chun Hsu, and Maria Tenorio Arvide: ADSORPTION OF FUMONISIN B1 ON SMECTITE AND SYNTHETIC LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES 
 
 
5:00 pm-5:20 pm  Jae-Min Oh*: SIZE AND MORPHOLOGY CONTROLLED LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES FOR ANTICANCER DRUG DELIVERY AND TUMOR TRACER
 
 

Technical Sessions | Room 210

General Session
Organizers: Martin Pentrak and Linda Pentrakova

1:20 pm-1:40pm Mary Arenberg* and Yuji Arai: IMMOBILIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL PHOSPHORUS IN CLAYEY FLOODPLAIN SOILS 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm  Iqra Zubair Awan*, Giada Beltrami, Annalisa Martucci, Stefania Albonetti, Fabrizio Cavani, Didier Tichit and Francesco Di Renzo: STUDY OF THE FIELD OF SYNTHESIS OF Cu-Ni-Fe LAMELLAR DOUBLE HYDROXIDES AND THEIR TRANSFORMATION INTO MIXED OXIDES FOR CATALYTIC APPLICATIONS 
 
 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Ahmed Radwan*, A.M. Abudeif, M.M. Attia, M. A. Elkhawaga, and Wael K. Abdelghany: SMECTITE TO ILLITE TRANSFORMATION AS A GEOPRESSURE GENERATION MECHANISM, GULF OF SUEZ—MUD ROCK: A CASE STUDY 
 
 
 
2:20 pm-3:40 pm Break 

Intensively Managed Clays in the Critical Zone
Organizers: Paul Schroeder, Kumar Praveen, and Thanos Papanicolao

3:40 pm-4:00 pm Jason Austin*, Amelia Perry, Daniel deB. Richter, and Paul A. Schroeder: MODIFICATIONS OF 2:1 CLAY MINERALS IN A KAOLINITE DOMINATED ULTISOL UNDER CHANGING LAND-USE REGIMES AT THE CALHOUN CRITICAL ZONE OBSERVATORY, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA. 
 
 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Bruno Lanson*, Eleanor Bakker, Michelle M. Wander, and Fabien Hubert: MINERALOGICAL EVOLUTION IN A TEMPERATE CULTIVATED SOIL ARISING FROM DIFFERENT AGRONOMIC PROCESSES AND K-UPTAKE BY PLANTS: INSIGHTS FROM THE MORROW PLOTS EXPERIMENTAL FIELDS 
 
 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Maximilien Mathian*, Julie Aufort, Jean-Jacques Braun, Jean Riotte, Madeleine Selo, Etienne Balan, Emmanuel Fritsch, Shrema Bhattacharya, and Thierry Allard: EPR DATING OF INDIAN REGOLITHS (KARNATAKA PLATEAU): RECORD OF THE ASIATIC MONSOON EVOLUTION 
 
 
 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Mohammadhasan Sasar*, Marika Santagata, Cliff Johnston, Antonio Bobet, and Heather Kaminsky: STRUCTURE CHANGE IN OIL SANDS FLUID FINE TAILINGS DUE TO FLOCCULATION WITH A HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT ANIONIC POLYACRYLAMIDE 
 
 
 
5:00 pm-5:20 pm Paul Schroeder*, Jason C. Austin, and Daniel deB. Richter: LANDSHED POSITION AND MANAGEMENT AND THEIR RELATION TO MINERAL AND CHEMICAL WEATHERING AS ASSESSED BY HIERARCHAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF REGOLITH ELEMENTAL DATA 
 
 
 

Monday Evening

5:40 pm-8:00 pm  Poster Session and Reception 


Tuesday, June 12, 2018

7:30 am-5:00 pm Registration | Illini Rooms A, B, C Foyer

Tuesday Morning Sessions

Plenary Session | Illini Room A

8:00 am-8:05 am  Introductory Announcements, Yuji Arai, General Chair 
8:05 am-8:15 am  Introduction of the 2018 Pioneer in Clay Science Recipient, Warren D. Huff, University of Cincinnati 
 
8:15 am-8:55 am  Acceptance and Presentation Jan Środoń MY LIFE WITH ILLITE-SMECTITE (Pioneer In Clay Science Lecture) 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room A

Illite-smectite Group in Geological Systems Soils Laboratory and Computer: The Complete Picture
Organizers: W. Crawford Elliott and Jan Środoń

9:00 am-9:20 am  Olga Dorzhieva*, Victoria V. Krupskaya, Boris A. Sakharov, Sergey V. Zakusin, Svetlana A. Garanina, and Olga V. Andreeva: STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF HYDROTHERMAL ILLITE-SMECTITES IN METASOMATITES AT THE ANTEI-STRELTSOVSKOE URANIUM DEPOSIT (RUSSIA) 
 
 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am Mingyong Du*, Jishan Liu, and Yee-Kwong Leong: TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE EFFECT ON THE RHEOLOGY AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF MAGNISIUM CLORIDE LOADED BENTONITE GELS 
 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Ahmed Radwan*, A.M. Abudeif, M.M. Attia, A. A. Kassem, and W. Said: EFFECT OF CLAY MINERALS IN OIL AND GAS FORMATION DAMAGE PROBLEMS: A CASE STUDY, GULF OF SUEZ, EGYPT 
 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 

Clay Interactions with Contaminants and Radionuclides: From Molecular Mechanisms to Environmental Fate
Organizers: Jeff Catalano and Nik Qafoku

10:20 am-10:40 am  Carolyn Pearce*, Kirk J. Cantrell, Sarah A. Saslow, Elsa A. Cordova, Whitney L. Garcia, Adam P. Sims, Steve M. Heald, and Vicky L. Freedman: ROLE OF CLAY STRUCTURE, COMPOSTION AND REDOX CHEMISTRY IN IMMOBILIZATION OF CATIONIC AND ANIONIC RADIONUCLIDES 
 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Daniel Kaplan*, Dien Li, Shan Huang, Peter R. Jaffé, John C. Seaman, Chen Xu, Peter H. Santschi, Alice C. Dohnalkova, and Nikola Tolic: IMPACT OF THE UNIQUE MINERALOGY AND ORGANIC MATTER COMPOSITION OF THE RHIZOSPHERE ON URANIUM IMMOBILIZATION 
 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Itamar Shabtai* and Yael G Mishael: POLYCYCLODEXTRIN-MONTMORILLONITE COMPOSITES: REGENERABLE DUAL-SITE SORBENTS FOR REMOVAL OF BISPHENOL A FROM WASTEWATER 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Samuel Perry*, Stuart J. Mills, and Peter C. Burns: URANYL PEROXIDE NANOCLUSTER INTERCALATION INTO SYNTHETIC HYDROTALCITE 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Sang Soo Lee* and Paul Fenter: EVOLUTION OF ADSORBED METAL CATION SPECIATION DURING ION EXCHANGE AT THE MUSCOVITE (001)–WATER INTERFACE 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm  Lunch On Your Own 

Techinical Sessions | Illini Room B

Applications of NMR Spectroscopy to Clays and Clay Mineral Systems
Organizers: Wei Li and Brian Phillips

9:00 am-9:20 am  Geoffrey Bowers* and R. James Kirkpatrick: BRINGING INTERFACIAL PROCESSES TO LIGHT (OR MAGNET): NMR OF SMECTITE-FLUID INTERFACES 
 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  William Casey*: SOLUTION NMR AT GEOCHEMICAL PRESSURES 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Ren Chao*, Junfeng Ji, and Wei Li: APPLICATION OF SOLID STATE NMR AT MINERAL/WATER INTERFACE: A MOLECULAR LEVEL INVESTIGATION OF FLUORIDE REMOVAL BY NANO-SIZED HYDROXYAPATITE 
 
 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am Jinlei Cui, David Olmsted, Mark D. Asta, Daniel E. Giammar, and Sophia E. Hayes*: SURPRISING FINDINGS FROM SOLID-STATE NMR OF 13C IN CARBONATES: ON THE PATHWAY TO NMR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Rixiang Huang*, Biao Wan, Margot Hultz, Julia M. Diaz, and Yuanzhi Tang: APPLICATION OF 31P NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR UNDERSTANDING POLYPHOSPHATE DEGRADATION 
 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Harris Mason*: PROBING THE MINERAL SURFACE REACTIONS OF RADIONUCLIDES WITH ADVANCED SOLID-STATE NMR TECHNIQUES 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Nicholai Daugaard Jensen, Suraj S.C. Charan, Claude Forano, Yusuke Nishiyama, Nghia Dong, Ralph Bolanz, Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk, and Ulla Gro Nielsen: THE ATOMIC LEVEL STRUCTURE OF LAYERED DOUBLY HYDROXIDES AS SEEN BY SOLID STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY AND OTHER TECHNIQUES 
 
 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Brian Phillips*: QUANTIFYING HYDROLYSIS OF KEGGIN-BASED AL-CLUSTERS FROM NMR SPECTROSCOPY 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm Lunch On Your Own 

Techinical Sessions | Illini Room C

Palygorskite: From Fundamental Research to Functional Materials
Organizers: Aiqin Wang and Junping Zhang

9:00 am-9:20 am  Atsushi Takahara*, Wei Ma, and Yuji Higaki: DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL (POLYMER/CLAY NANOTUBE) HYBRIDS 
 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  Shouyong Zhou*, Ailian Xue, Yan Zhang, Meisheng Li, and Yijiang Zhao: POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANE BY INCORPORATION OF THERMO-RESPONSIVE PALYGORSKITE NANOFIBERS WITH ENHANCED FLUX AND ANTIFOULING PROPERTIES 
 
 
 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Meisheng Li*, Yijiang Zhao, Shouyong Zhou, and Wen Zhang: HETEROGENEOUS POLY(IONIC LIQUIDS) CATALYST ON NANOFIBER-LIKE PALYGORSKITE SUPPORTS FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION 
 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am Junping Zhang*, Bucheng Li, and Aiqin Wang: SUPERHYDROPHOBIC AND SUPERAMPHIPHOBIC COATINGS BASED ON PALYGORSKITE 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky*, Cristina Ruiz-García, Margarita Darder, and Pilar Aranda: CARBON-SILICATE COMPOSITES: THE ROLE OF FIBROUS CLAYS 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Meng Fu*, Xiangming Li, and Zepeng Zhang: HIGHLY TUNABLE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ASSEMBLIES OF SUPERPARAMAGNETIC ATTAPULGITE FE3O4 NANORODS 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Pilar Aranda*, Marwa Akkari, Ana C.S. Alcântara, Yorexis González, Margarita Darder, and Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky: MAGNETIC NANOPLATFORMS BASED ON FIBROUS CLAYS FOR REMOVAL OF POLLUTANTS 
 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Xuehua Zou*, Tianhu Chen, Haibo Liu, Ping Zhang, and Steven L. Suib: HIGH CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE OF Fe-Ni/PALYGORSKITE IN THE STEAM REFORMING OF TOLUENE FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm Lunch On Your Own 

Tuesday Afternoon Sessions

Technical Sessions | Illini Room A

Clay Interactions with Contaminants and Radionuclides: From Molecular Mechanisms to Environmental Fate
Organizers: Jeff Catalano and Nik Qafoku

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Tomasz Bajda*: OXYANIONS SORPTION BY ORGANO-SMECTITE 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm  Anastasia Ilgen*, Ravi K. Kukkadapu, Rachel E. Washington, and Kevin Leung: REACTIVITY OF IRON IN NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC FERRIC NONTRONITES 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Paulina Maziarz* and Jakub Matusik: MAGHEMITE PARTICLES SUPPORTED ON HALLOYSITE AS MAGNETICALLY RESPONSIVE COMPOSITES FOR EFFICIENT As(V) REMOVAL 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Emily Saad, Shiliang Zhao, and Yuanzhi Tang*: MOLECULAR SCALE MECHANISM OF CHROMIUM INTERACTION WITH METAL OXIDES: MICROBIAL AND STRUCTURAL ASPECTS 
 
 
2:40 pm-3:00 pm  Khalid Zakaria, Yang Ding, Lening Chen, and Anke Neumann: CONTAMINANT OXIDATION WITH Fe(II)-BEARING CLAY MINERALS
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm  Ying Li*, Xiaoliang Liang, Hongping He, Joseph W. Stucki, Linda Pentrakova, and Martin Pentrak: HETEROGENEOUS REDUCTION OF 2-CHLORONITROBENZENE BY Co-SUBSTITUTED MAGNETITE COUPLED WITH AQUEOUS Fe(II): PERFORMANCE, CHARACTERIZATION AND MECHANISM 
 
 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break 
3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Sergey V. Zakusin*, Yana V. Bychkova, Ekaterina A. Tyupina, Petr S. Belousov, and Victoria V. Krupskaya: SORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL AND ACID-TREATED BENTONITES FROM RUSSIAN DEPOSITS 
 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Yayu Li* and Cristian P. Schulthess: STRICT ION-EXCHANGE MODELING FOR CATION SELECTIVE ADSORPTION ON Na- MONTMORILLONITE
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Jesús I. Martínez-Costa, Roberto Leyva-Ramos*, Erika Padilla-Ortega, Antonio Aragón-Piña, and Damarys H. Carrales-Alvarado: COMPETITIVE SORPTION OF SULFAMETHOXAZOLE-TRIMETHOPRIM AND SULFAMETHOXAZOLE-CADMIUM (II) ON AN ORGANOCLAY 
 
 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Liliana Lefticariu*, Stephen R. Sutton, Antonio Lanzirotti, Theodore M. Flynn, and Martin Pentrak: THE IMPACT OF DETRITAL CLAY MINERALS ON CONTAMINANT DYNAMICS IN AMD-IMPACTED SYSTEMS 
 
 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room B

EET (Extracellular electron transfer) goes AC/DC: Microbial Oxidation and Reduction of Insoluble Fe Oxides and Phyllosilicates in Soil and Sedimentary Environments
Organizers: Eric Roden and Jinwook Kim

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Li Zhang*, Hailiang Dong, and Liang Shi: FUNCTION OF THE OUTER-MEMBRANE CYTOCHROMES IN REDUCTION OF NONTRONITE BY SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1 AND COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT ELECTRON SHUTTLES 
 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm  Vincent Noël, Kristin Boye, Callum Bobb, Emily Cardarelli, Ravi Kukkadapu, Scott Fendorf, Kate Maher, Chris A. Francis, and John Bargar*: IRON-SULFUR REDOX CYCLING AND CONTAMINANT MOBILITY IN THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN 
 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm Luis Zarate-Reyes, Cynthia Lopez-Pacheco, Antonio Nieto-Camacho, Maria Teresa Ramirez Apán, Eduardo Palacios, Stephan Kaufhold, Kristian Ufer, Eduardo Garcia Zepeda, and Javiera Cervini-Silva*: NATURALLY OCCURRING LAYERED-MINERAL MAGNESIUM AS A BACTERICIDAL AGAINST ESCHERICHIA COLI 
 
 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Bingjie Shi*, Philippe Van Cappellen, Chris T. Parsons, Christina M. Smeaton, Eric E. Roden, Clark M. Johnson, and Brian Kendall: DIFFERENT POOLS OF BIOAVAILABLE IRON IN NONTRONITE NAu-1: INSIGHTS FROM IRON STABLE ISOTOPES 
 
 
 
2:40 pm-3:00pm  James Entwistle*, David Werner, Drew E. Latta, Michelle M. Scherer, and Anke Neumann: MICROBIALLY MEDIATED ABIOTIC REDUCTION OF CLAY MINERAL IRON: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF SECONDARY PRECIPITATES FOR CONTAMINANT REMEDIATION 
 
 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm  Jin-wook Kim*: MICROBE-MINERAL INTERACTION IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break 
3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Tae-hee Koo*, Gill Geseey, Kyeong Ryang Park, and Jin-wook Kim: BIOMINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH MICROBIAL Fe/As REDOX REACTION IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Stephanie Napieralski*, H.L. Buss, S. He, and E.E. Roden: EXTRACELLULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER AS A MECHANISM OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING OF Fe(II) SILICATES BY LITHOTROPIC IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIA 
 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Katherine A. Rothwell and Anke Neumann*: EFFECT OF MICROBIALLY PRODUCED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS ON THE REDOX REACTIVITY OF Fe-BEARING CLAY MINERALS 
 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Eric Roden*, T. Wu, S. He, and E. Shelobolina: MICROBIAL REDUCTION AND OXIDATION OF Fe(III)-OXIDES AND Fe(III)-PHYLLOSILICATES IN SOIL AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS 
 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room C

Palygorskite: From Fundamental Research to Functional Materials
Organizers: Aiqin Wang and Junping Zhang

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Mercedes Suarez*, Emilia García-Romero, Juan Morales, and Esperanza San-Gregorio: THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF DIFFERENT TERMS OF THE SEPIOLITE-PALYGORSKITE POLYSOMATIC SERIES 
 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm Wenbo Wang*, Aiqin Wang, Li Zong, Qin Wang, and Yuru Kang: SIMULTANEOUS TRANSFORMATION OF PALYGORSKITE AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS TO FABRICATE HIGHLY EFFICIENT MESOPOROUS SILICATE ADSORBENT 
 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Yijiang Zhao*, Ailian Xue, Yan Zhang, Shouyong Zhou, and Meisheng Li: THE CERAMIC MICROFILTRATION MEMBRANE WITH A SEPARATION LAYER OF PALYGORSKITE NANOFIBERS 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Jinlong Jiang, Lingli Li*, and Yongkui Liu: GREEN SYNTHESIS OF ZEOLITE FROM NATURAL CLAY UNDER MICRO-AMOUNT OF SOLVENT CONDITIONS 
 
 

Bentonite Barriers
Organizers: Georg Grathoff and Stephen Kanfhold

2:40 pm-3:00 pm  Macarena Leal* and Thomas B. Scott: A STUDY OF GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL FACILITIES ALTERATION PHENOMENA IN BENTONITE. 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm Carolin Podlech*, Nicole Matschiavelli, Georg H. Grathoff, and Laurence N. Warr: BENTONITE ALTERATION IN AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS RELEVANT TO THE UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE INCLUDING THE EFFECTS OF MICROBIAL ACTIVITY 
 
 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break
3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Patrik Sellin*: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BENTONITE BARRIERS—THE BEACON PROJECT 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Daniel Svensson*: DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL SCALE QUALITY CONTROL OF BENTONITE FOR BUFFER IN A KBS-3 HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Paul Wersin*, Jebril Hadi, Andreas Jenni, Jean-Marc Grenèche, Daniel Svensson, Patrik Sellin, Olivier Leupin, and Florian Kober: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IRON-BENTONITE INTERFACES WITH REGARD TO SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE REPOSITORIES? 
 
 
 

CONFERENCE BANQUET AT THE MEMORIAL STADIUM COLONNADES CLUB—BUSES LEAVE THE FRONT OF THE ILLINI UNION AT 5:30 PM



Wednesday, June 13, 2018

7:30 am-5:00 pm  Registration | Illini Rooms A, B, C Foyer 

Wednesday Morning Sessions

Plenary Session | Illini Room A

8:00 am-8:05 am  Introductory Announcements, Yuji Arai, General Chair 
8:05 am-8:15 am  Introduction of the 2018 Marilyn & Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award Recipient, Will P. Gates, SmecTech Research Consulting 
 
 
8:15 am-8:55 am  Acceptance and Presentation Jock Churchman: THE ENIGMA OF HALLOYSITE (Bailey Award Lecture) 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room A

The Role of Clay Minerals in Controlling the Properties and Geochemical Processes Associated with Hydrocarbon Systems
Organizer: David Cole

9:00 am-9:20 am  Steve Chipera* and Leonardo Alcantar-Lopez: MEASUREMENT OF POROSITY SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION IN SHALES AND OTHER TIGHT-ROCK RESOURCES 
 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  Shane Butler*, Alexander Azenkeng, Kurt E. Eylands, Blaise A.F. Mibeck, and Bethany A. Kurz: PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF CLAYS IN THE UNCONVENTIONAL BAKKEN OIL RESERVOIR
 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Heather Kaminsky*: CLAYS IN OIL SANDS: AN UPDATE AND CALL FOR COLLABORATION 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am Ali Seiphoori*, Andrew J. Whittle, Paul Marschall, and Herbert H. Einstein: DIAGENETIC CEMENTATION EFFECTS ON THE PORE STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF OPALINUS CLAY-SHALE 
 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Gernot Rother*, Michael Cheshire, and David R. Cole: NOBLE GAS AND LIGHT HYDROCARBON INTERACTIONS WITH MONTMORILLONITE: ACCESSIBILITY OF THE INTERLAYERS 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Pan Liu* and Junfeng Ji: HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS OF CHLORITE FROM SAPONITE: KINETICS AND MECHANISMS OF SMECTITE-CHLORITE CONVERSION 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  R. James Kirkpatrick*, Narasimhan Loganathan, Geoffrey M. Bowers, Ozgur O. Yazaydin, John S. Loring, H. Todd Schaef, Eric D. Walter, Sarah D. Burton, and David W. Hoyt: CLAY MINERALS IN HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS: COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF SMECTITE-H2O-CO2-CH4 INTERACTIONS 
 
 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Jennifer A.R. Willemsen, Lydia Watt, Alex W. Byrnes, Alison O. Chang, and Ian Bourg*: NANOSCALE CONTROLS ON CLAY-ORGANIC INTERACTIONS 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm Lunch On Your Own 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room B

Structures and Reactivity of Clays and Nanoparticles in Soils and Water
Organizers: Youjun Deng, Mengqiang Zhu, and Yuji Arai

9:00 am-9:20 am  Donald L. Sparks*: MINERAL/WATER INTERFACIAL REACTIVITY IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  Mengqiang Zhu*, Xiaoming Wang, and Chunhao Gu: IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF SILICATE, PHOSPHATE AND SULFATE SPECIES ON IRON OXIDE SURFACES USING SPECTROSCOPIC AND ATOMIC PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ANALYSES
 
 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Jakub Matusik*, Karolina Rybka, Joanna Kuzdro, and Bartosz Toboła: HALLOYSITE-BASED HYBRID COMPOSITES WITH SYNTHETIC LDH AND THEIR AFFINITY TO REMOVE ANIONS 
 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am Anping Peng, Yi Wang, and Cheng Gu*,: TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS ON MONTMORILLONITE CLAY MINERAL SURFACES 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Hui Li*, Yingjie Zhang, Stephen A. Boyd, Brian J. Teppen, and James M. Tiedje: BIOAVAILABILITY OF TETRACYCLINE TO ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT ESCHERICHIA COLI IN AQUEOUS CLAY SUSPENSIONS 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Dongsheng Li*, Jaehun Chun, Hailong Wang, Ben Legg, Dongdong Xiao, Kevin M. Rosso, Christopher J. Mundy, Gregory K. Schenter, and James J. De Yoreo: INFLUENCE OF CRYSTAL ORIENTATION AND MOLECULAR DETAILS ON LONG-RANGE DISPERSION FORCES UNDERLYING AGGREGATION AND CO-ALIGNMENT BETWEEN CRYSTALS
 
 
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Juan Liu*, Anxu Sheng, Yixiao Zhang, and Xiaoxu Li: SIZE-DEPENDENT AGGREGATION OF HEMATITE PARTICLES IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Derek Peak*, David Hilger, and Jordan G. Hamilton: THE ROLE OF MAGNESIUM IN METASTABILITY OF CALCIUM PHOSPHATE MINERALS 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm Lunch On Your Own 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room C

Molecular Studies of Clay Minerals and Related Structures
Organizer: Jeff Greathouse

9:00 am-9:20 am  Eric Ferrage*, Patrice Porion, Thomas Dabat, Fabien Hubert, Erwan Paineau, Emmanuel Tertre, and Alfred Delville: ANISOTROPIC FEATURES OF WATER DIFFUSION IN CLAY POROUS MEDIA: A COMBINATION OF COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS 
 
 
 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  Jing Peng*, Guoping Zhang, and Don J. DeGroot: QUANTITATIVE TEXTURE ANALYSIS OF WET CLAYS DURING THIXOTROPIC HARDENING USING SYNCHROTRON X-RAY DIFFRACTION
 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Tuan Ho*, Louise Criscenti, Jeffery Greathouse, and Yifeng Wang: MOLECULAR STUDY OF THE EDGE EFFECT ON AQUEOUS CATION ADSORPTION ON GIBBSITE NANOPARTICLES 
 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am Chi Zhang*, Andrey G. Kalinichev, and Xiandong Liu: MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF HEAVY METALS ADSORPTION ON CLAY MINERALS 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  McNeill Bauer* and F. Marc Michel: FACTORS REGULATING SYNTHESIS AND FORMATION STAGES OF ALLOPHANE NANOPARTICLES 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Javiera Cervini-Silva*, Eduardo Palacios, and Virginia Gómez- Vidales: NONTRONITE AS NATURAL SOURCE AND GROWTH TEMPLATE FOR (NANO)MAGHEMITE [gamma-Fe2O3] AND (NANO)WÜSTITE [Fe1-XO]
 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Alena Kremleva*, Sven Krüger, and Notker Rösch: QUANTUM CHEMICAL MODELING OF Fe(III) IN 2:1 DIOCTAHEDRAL SMECTITES 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm  Marek Szczerba* and Kristian Ufer: NEW MODEL OF ETHYLENE GLYCOL LAYERS INTERCALCATED IN SMECTITES FOR XRD MODELLING 
 
 
12:00 pm-1:20 pm Lunch On Your Own 

Wednesday Afternoon Sessions

Technical Session | Illini Room A

The Role of Clay Minerals in Controlling the Properties and Geochemical Processes Associated with Hydrocarbon Systems
Organizer: David Cole

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Louise Criscenti*, Yifeng Wang, and Tuan Anh Ho: MOLECULAR MODELING OF KEROGEN AND NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm Pawel Ziemianski*, Arkadiusz Derkowski, and Marek Szczerba: HIGH-PRESSURE METHANE ADSORPTION ON MONTMORILLONITE: EXPERIMENTS AND MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Andrey Kalinichev*, Brice F. Ngouana-Wakou, and Iuliia Androniuk: INTERACTION OF NATURALLLY OCCURING RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS WITH CLAY MINERALS IN THE CONTEXT OF SHALE GAS EXPLORATION 
 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  David Cole* and Alberto Striolo: STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND REACTIVITY OF C-O-H FLUIDS IN NANOPOROUS REGIMES 
 

Phyllosilicates Throughout the Solar System
Organizer: Michael Velbel

2:40 pm-3:00 pm  Thomas Bristow*, V. K. Fox, K. A. Bennett, E. B. Rampe, V. Z. Sun, and the MSL Science Team: A PRELUDE TO THE CLAY-BEARING UNIT OF MOUNT SHARP, GALE CRATER, MARS 
 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm Valerie Fox*, B. Ehlmann, J. G. Catalano, R. J. Kupper, R. D. Nickerson, S. M. Katz, and A. A. White: SPECTRAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF Fe3+/Fe2+, Mg, Al SMECTITES TO IMPROVE PLANETARY REMOTE SENSING 
 
 
 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break
3:40 pm-4:00 pm Tanya Peretyazhko*, Brad Sutter, Paul B. Niles, Richard V. Morris, David G. Agresti, Joanna V. Hogancamp, and Douglas W. Ming: SMECTITE FORMATION IN ACID SULFATE ENVIRONMENTS ON MARS 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Jeffrey Catalano*, Steven M. Chemtob, Ryan D. Nickerson, Richard V. Morris, and David G. Agresti: FORMATION AND OXIDATION OF Fe(II)-Mg TRIOCTAHEDRAL SMECTITES ON EARLY MARS  
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Leslie Baker*: MAGNESIAN CLAYS IN COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS: A NEW POSSIBLE MARS ANALOG FOR EARLY WEATHERING
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Rebecca Smith*, Briony Horgan, Elizabeth Rampe, and Erwin Dehouck: ARE AMORPHOUS PHASES ON MARS PRECURSORS TO CLAY MINERALS? 
 
 
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm  Michael Velbel*: FATE AND TRANSPORT OF SOLUTES IN MICROPOROUS CHONDRITIC ASTEROIDAL AQUIFERS—AND CORES OF OCEAN WORLDS? 
 
 
5:20 pm-5:40 pm  Reynolds Cup
Rieko Adriaens: REYNOLDS CUP 2018 WINNER AND PRESENTATION 
 
5:40 pm-6:40 pm  CMS Business Meeting, all welcome, in Illini Room A 

Technical Session | Illini Room B

Structures and Reactivity of Clays and Nanoparticles in Soils and Water
Organizers: Youjun Deng, Mengqiang Zhu, and Yuji Arai

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Javier Ramiro Chaparro Barajas*, Carolina Pazos, Lisette D. Ruiz, Esperanza Pavón, María D. Alba, Agustín Cota, and Francisco J. Osuna: Al/Fe PILLARED FROM SYNTHETIC HIGH CHARGED Na-2-MICA 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm Shiliang Zhao, Chenning Li, Mengqiang Zhu, Shuo Chen, and Yuanzhi Tang*: EFFECTS OF METAL IMPURITIES ON THE STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF Mn OXIDE NANOPARTICLES 
 
 
2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Young-Shin Jun* and Haesung Jung: PHOTOCHEMICALLY-FORMED BIRNESSITE NANOSHEET LAYER STRUCTURES 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Shichao Ji*, Hongping He, Jianxi Zhu, Qi Tao, Shangying Li, and Zangchao Qun: THE SOLID-STATE TRANSFORMATION FROM BRUCITE TO CLAY MINERALS
 
 
2:40 pm-3:00 pm  Wei Li*, Wenxian Gou, and Weiqiang Li: Zn ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION DURING SORPTION ONTO Al OXIDE: MOLECULAR LEVEL UNDERSTANDING FROM Zn EXAFS INVESTIGATION 
 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm Shupei Wu* and Yu Qingchun: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON WATER CONDENSATION IN SHALES 
3:20 pm-3:40 pm  Break
3:40 pm-4:00 pm Zhenqing Shi*, Lei Tian, Pei Wang, and Xionghan Feng: COUPLED KINETIC REACTIONS AT MINERAL-WATER INTERFACES: DEVELOPING QUANTITATIVE MODELS 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  Mingyong Du* and Yee-Kwong Leong: MORPHOLOGY STUDY ON MONTMORILLONITE GELS WITH DIFFERENT MICROSCOPY SCANNING METHODS 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Jerome Labille*, Danielle Slomberg, Anne Pariat, Jonathan Brant, Patrick Ollivier, Olivier Radakovitch, Nicole Sani-Kast, Antonia Praetorius, and Martin Scheringer: ENVIRONMENTAL FATE OF MANUFACTURED NANOPARTICLES IN SURFACE WATER DRIVEN BY HETEROAGGREGATION WITH CLAY COLLOIDS
 
 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Kirk Scheckel*, Erica Donner, Ryo Sekine, Gianluca Brunetti, and Enzo Lombi: ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORAMTIONS OF SILVER AND ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES DRIVE RISK ASSESSMENT UNDERSTANDING 
 
 
 
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm  Dean Hesterberg* and James LeBeau: NANOSCALE STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY AND REACTIVITY OF SOIL MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES 
 
5:20 pm-5:40 pm  Taofeeq O. Salawudeen, Monsurat Jimoh*, Akeem O. Arinkoola, and Micheal O. Daramola: MODIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NIGERIAN CLAY FOR IMPROVED RHEOLOGY IN WATER-BASED DRILLING FLUID 
 
 
 
5:40 pm-6:40 pm  CMS Business Meeting, all welcome, in Illini Room A 

Technical Session | Illini Room C

Molecular Studies of Clay Minerals and Related Structures
Organizer: Jeff Greathouse

1:20 pm-1:40 pm  Jeffery Greathouse*, Jacob A. Harvey, Todd R. Zeitler, Louise J. Criscenti, Randall T. Cygan, Joanne T. Fredrich, Gary R. Jerauld, and Cliff T. Johnston: MOLECULAR MODELING OF VIBRATIONAL AND ADSORPTION PROPERTIES AT CLAY EDGES
 
 
 
1:40 pm-2:00 pm Qi Rao and Yongsheng Leng*: MOLECULAR SIMULATION STUDIES OF CO2-GEOLOGICAL FLUIDS IN SWELLING CLAYS 
 

Role of Clay Minerals in the Events Leading to the Origin of Life
Organizer: Gözen Ertem

2:00 pm-2:20 pm  Gözen Ertem*: ROLE OF MINERALS IN THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE-BERNAL-II: PROTECTION OF BIO-ORGANIC MOLECULES BY MINERALS AGAINST RADIATION EFFECTS 
 
 
2:20 pm-2:40 pm  Gözen Ertem*: CATALYTIC ROLE OF MINERALS FOR THE FORMATION OF RNA OLIGOMERS-BERNAL-I 
 
2:40 pm-3:00 pm  Francisco de Assis Rodriguez, Thomas Georgelin, Jean-François Lambert, and Maguy Jaber*: CONSPIRATION OF MINERALS AND ORGANICS IN ORIGINS OF LIFE 
 
 
3:00 pm-3:20 pm  Alex Kugler*, and Hailiang Dong: MICAS AS PROTECTIVE HABITATS OF CYANOBACTERIA AGAINST ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION 
 
3:00 pm-3:40 pm  Break 

The Isotopy of Clay Minerals—Mysteries in the Sheets
Organizer: Fred Longstaffe

3:40 pm-4:00 pm  Daniel Deocampo*, F. J. Longstaffe, D. Gebregiorgis, G. M. Ashley, E. Beverly, J. Delaney, and J. Cuadros: CHEMISTRY AND ISOTOPES OF PLEISTOCENE CLAYS, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA: ORBITAL CONTROL OF EAST AFRICAN PALEOCLIMATE 
 
 
 
4:00 pm-4:20 pm  H. Albert Gilg* and Mathias Köster: ISOTOPY OF THE SHEETS: EMPERATURES, TIMING AND TRACING OF FLUIDS INVOLVED IN BENTONITE FORMATION 
 
 
4:20 pm-4:40 pm  Itay Halevy*: THE OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF SEAWATER THROUGH TIME: A PERSPECTIVE FROM IRON OXIDES AND CLAYS 
 
4:40 pm-5:00 pm  Sarah Simpson*, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Gordon R. Osinski: SECONDARY CLAY MINERALIZATION IN THE CHICXULUB IMPACT CRATER PEAK-RING: AN ISOTOPIC PERSPECTIVE 
 
 
5:00 pm-5:20 pm  Matthew Svensson*, Gordon R. Osinski, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Sarah L. Simpson: HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF CRATER LAKE DEPOSITS AT THE RIES IMPACT STRUCTURE, GERMANY 
 
 
5:20 pm-5:40 pm  Lynda Williams* and Maitrayee Bose: LITHIUM ISOTOPE HETEROGENEITY IN COALS AND KEROGEN: AN UNRECOGNIZED LITHIUM CONTRIBUTION TO THE GLOBAL GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE 
 
 
5:40 pm-6:40 pm  CMS Business Meeting, all welcome, in Illini Room A 


Thursday, June 14, 2018

7:30 am-10:30 am Registration | Illini Room 314

Thursday Morning Sessions

Plenary Session | Illini Room 314

8:00 am-8:05 am  Introductory Announcements, Yuji Arai, General Chair 
8:05 am-8:15 am  Introduction of the 2018 Brindley Lecture, Douglas McCarty, President of The Clay Minerals Society 
 
8:15 am-8:55 am  Acceptance and Presentation Cliff T. Johnston: PROBING THE HYDROPHOBIC/HYDROPHILIC NATURE OF CLAY MINERALS AT THE MESOSCALE SCALE (Brindley Lecture) 
 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room 314

Teaching and History of Clay Sciences
Organizer: Steve Altaner 

9:00 am-9:20 am  Stephen Aja*: THE THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF CLAY MINERALS: A RETROSPECTIVE 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  Stephen Altaner*: TEACHING OF CLAY SCIENCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPHASIZING IMPORTANCE 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  W. Crawford Elliott*: THE DERIVATION OF FORMULAS FOR SIMPLE PHYLLOSILICATE MINERALS 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am  Warren Huff*: TEACHING CLAY SCIENCE: FROM PAST TO PRESENT 
 

Volcanic Ash as Source Material for Clay and Zeolite Mineral Formation
Organizers: Rona Donahoe and Kim Genareau

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10:40 am-11:00 am  Rona Donahoe*: FORMATION OF ZEOLITE MINERALS FROM VOLCANIC ASH: AN OVERVIEW 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  W. Crawford Elliott*: CLAY GENESIS FROM VOLCANIC PARENT MATERIALS: DIFFRACTION TELLS ONLY PART OF THIS STORY 
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Briony Horgan*, Rebecca Smith, Oliver Chadwick, Greg Retallack, Eldar Noe Dobrea, and Phil Christensen: THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND DIAGENESIS ON THE SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF VOLCANIC SOILS ON EARTH AND MARS 
 
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm Elizabeth Rampe*, Richard V. Morris, Douglas W. Ming, Thomas F. Bristow, Cherie N. Achilles, Janice L. Bishop, Briony Horgan, Rebecca J. Smith, and Michael D. Kraft: ALTERATION OF VOLCANIC SEDIMENTS ON MARS AND THE FORMATION OF CLAY MINERALS AND X-RAY AMORPHOUS MATERIALS
 
 
 

Technical Sessions | Illini Room 210

Structures and Reactivity of Clays and Nanoparticles in Soils and Water
Organizers: Youjun Deng, Mengqiang Zhu, and Yuji Arai

9:00 am-9:20 am Yongkang Wu*, Shengmin Luo, Jing Peng, Don J. DeGroot, and Guoping Zhang: FORMATION OF CONCRETIONS IN CONNECTICUT VALLEY VARVED CLAY
 
 
9:20 am-9:40 am  Fabien Hubert*, Shang Yao Guo, Pierre Barré, Claire Chenu, Eric Ferrage, Emmanuel Tertre, and Folkert van Oort: CLAY MINERALOGY FROM TEMPERATE SOILS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE 42 PLOTS LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTAL SITE OF VERSAILLES (FRANCE)
 
 
 
9:40 am-10:00 am  Shoeleh Assemi*, Partaksh Sidhu, Sugandha Sharma, Vishal Gupta, Jing Lliu, and Jan D. Miller: INVESTIGATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF CLAY MINERALS AT NANOSCALE 
 
 
10:00 am-10:20 am  Break 
10:20 am-10:40 am  Seungyeol Lee* and Huifang Xu: THE STRUCTURE, CHEMISTRY, AND TRANSFORMATION OF VERNADITE IN A FERROMANGANESE CRUST FROM A NORTH-WEST PACIFIC SEAMOUNT 
 
 
10:40 am-11:00 am  Bruno Lanson* and Sylvain Grangeon: INFLUENCE OF VERNADITE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ON ITS REACTIVITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR METAL SORPTION AND PHYLLO-TO-TECTOMANGANATE TRANSFORMATION
 
 
 
11:00 am-11:20 am  Huifang Xu*: SOLVING CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND CONSTRUCTING SIZE-DEPENDENT PHASE MAPS FOR Fe(III)-OXIDE NANO-MINERALS
 
11:20 am-11:40 am  Hongping He*, Shichao Ji, Jianxi Zhu, and Qi Tao: CONVERSION OF 1:1 CLAY MINERALS TO SMECTITE UNDER HYDROTHERMAL CONDITION: IMPLICATION FOR SOLID STATE TRANSFORMATION
 
 
11:40 am-12:00 pm Xiancai Lu*, Huan Liu, Meng Li, Lijuan Zhang, Chao Pan, Juan Li, and Wanli Xiang: MINERALOGICAL PROPERTIES AND ENVIROMENTAL IMPLICATION OF Mn-SUBSTITUTED GOETHITE
 
 

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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