How the Solid/Liquid Ratio Affects the Cation Exchange Process and Porosity in the Case of Dioctahedral Smectite: Structural Analysis?

Figure 4

Graphic Representation of the hydration state in the case of SWy-Ba (a) and SWy-Ni (b) samples via modelling of X-ray diffraction. Colors white, light-brown, and dark-brown represent the type , , and layer hydration states, respectively. Each line thus represents a layer with his own hydration state. The configuration considered here is extracted from validated MLS and based on 100 layers per crystallite.