Abstract
We show that simple low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can provide quantitative measurements of water content in clays providing appropriate instrumentation and protocols. In particular, NMR is a good tool to study the swelling of smectites and the interlayer water content despite pore sizes of the order of or less than 1 nm and the presence of paramagnetic impurities yielding short T1 and T2 relaxation times. The NMR measurements performed at a magnetic field of 0.5 T were: (i) the standard CPMG sequence to deduce a distribution of transverse relaxation times T2, (ii) the 2D T1–T2 sequence to analyze the mobility of protons, and (iii) a free induction decay (FID) sequence to detect very short relaxation time and evaluate the total amount of protons present in the system, including structural hydroxyls. We complemented the NMR data with small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to obtain the basal spacing d001. On powder clays, the total interlayer water content is obtained from FID measurements after c...
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