... capture. Charge-reduced montmorillonites (CRMs) were prepared by way of the Li-fixation technique, followed by characterisation of their diverse physical, chemical, hydration and swelling properties, including Atterberg limits, cation exchange capacity, water adsorption isotherms, basal spacing...

...Chao Zhang; Shaojie Hu; Zemin Qiu; Ning Lu Adsorption and capillarity, in the order of high free energy to low, are the two soil–water interaction mechanisms controlling the hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils. Yet most of the poroelasticity theories of soil are based on capillarity only, leading...