Table of Contents

1. General Introduction: Clays, Clay Minerals, and Clay Science
2. Structures and Mineralogy of Clay Minerals
3. Surface and Interface Chemistry of Clay Minerals
4. Synthetic Clay Minerals and Purification of Natural Clays
5. Colloid Clay Science
6. Mechanical Properties of Clays and Clay Minerals
7. Modified Clays and Clay Minerals
8. Properties and Behavior of Iron in Clay Minerals
9. Clays, Microorganisms and Biomineralisation
10. Clays in Industry
11. Clays, Environment and Health
12. Critical Assessment of Some Analytical Techniques
13. Some Other Materials Related to Clays
14. Genesis of Clay Minerals
15. History of Clay Science: A Young Discipline
16. Teaching Clay Science: A Great Perspective

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About the Author

Dr Faiza Annabi-Bergaya obtained a Licence-ès-Science in Physical-Chemistry from the University of Tunis in 1966, a first PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1971 from University La Sorbonne-Paris VI and a second PhD in Physics in 1978 from the University of Orleans (France). She started her career in 1971 at the CNRS from which she is presently Emeritus Research Director. Her research interest is focused on the Physics and Chemistry of clays and clay minerals. She is member of the AIPEA Nomenclature Committee. She was Secretary of the ECGA in 1999-2003. As President of the GFA (French Clay Group) in 2003-2007, she created the annual meetings of the GFA, organizing the first two meetings in Orleans. She launched the Series Developments in Clay Science with the publication in 2006 of Volume 1 (Handbook of Clay Science) and she is Series Editor since 2013. She is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Clay Science since 2012.

Reviews

"The different fields covered make this book a must for all scientists interested in clays from any point of view. The book is also clearly written, and not so addressed exclusively to specialists. Students starting their work in almost any field of Clay Sciences will find here an up-to-date and clearly written account." --Vincente Rives and Miguel Angel Vicente for CLAY MINERALS, 2007 "...a rich source of critically selected primary material and key reviews, with hundreds of pages of bibliography and thousands of references. There will be something here for everyone...It will undoubtedly be valuable to chemists who use clays in dustry and engineering, as a raw material or as a highly valued synthetic product. It will provide useful information for soil scientists who want to know more about the fundamental properties of fine-grained layer silicates, and how they are investigated, how their properties are measured." -D.A.C. Manning for EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE