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Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Argiles

International Association for the Study of Clays

Internationale Vereinigung zum Studium der Tone

Межлунаролная ассоциация по изучению глин

Newsletter N46 February 2014

Editor: Dr. Daisy Barbosa Alves, Secretary-General, PETROBRAS Research Centre, Rua

Horacio Macedo n. 950, Cidade Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), CEP: 21941-9156, Brazil

Phone: +55 21 2162 6438, Facsimile: +55 21 2162 4562

Website: http://www.aipea.org E-mail: [email protected]

AFFILIATED SOCIETIES:

Algerian Clay Group (ACG)

Australian Clay Minerals Society

(ACMS)

Clay Minerals Group of the

Mineralogical Society (GB and

Ireland)

Clay Science Society of Japan

Croatian Clay Group

Czech National Clay Group

Dutch Clay Group

French Clay Group (GFA)

German-Austrian-Swiss Clay Group

(DTTG)

Korean Clay Science Society (KCSS)

Hungary Clay Group

Israel Society for Clay Research

Italian Association for the Study of Clays (AISA)

Nordic Society for Clay Research

(North American) The Clay Minerals

Society (CMS)

Polish Clay Group

Portuguese Clay Group (APA)

Romanian Group for the Study of

Clays and Clay Minerals

Russian Clay Group

Slovak Clay Group

Spanish Clay Society (SEA)

Tunisian Clay Group (TCG)

Turkish National Committee of Clay

Sciences

Ukrainian Clay Group

CONTENTS

1. 2013’s President’s Report ................................................................................................ 1 2. AIPEA Officers and Council............................................................................................ 3 3. AIPEA Website ................................................................................................................ 7 4. AIPEA List Server ........................................................................................................... 8 5. Treasurer’s Report (Jan.–Dec. 2013) .............................................................................. 10 6. International Union of Geological Sciences Annual Report ........................................... 13 7. National and Regional Clay Groups ............................................................................... 15 8. Council Affairs .............................................................................................................. 50 9. Nomenclature Committee - 2013 ................................................................................... 56 10. Obituary: Max Merle Mortland (1923-2013) ............................................................... 57 11. Recent and Upcoming Meetings .................................................................................. 58 12. AIPEA Membership Application Form ........................................................................ 66

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12. AIPEA MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

Becoming member of AIPEA is recommended to everybody interested in clays and clay minerals. At the moment, the main mean of communication among all members of this

association is its website (www.aipea.org). There, all information is concentrated and made

available to all AIPEA members, such as updated information from many events that are being organized around the world besides other information that might be of general interest.

The rules of acceptance of new members are defined in the AIPEA Statutes and By-Laws (http://www.aipea.org/statute.html), as follows:

Statutes:

“II. MEMBERSHIP

3. a) AIPEA may accept as members individuals (individual members, who may also be

life members), institutions and companies (corporate members), and nationa1 or regiona1 societies (Affiliated Societies) with an interest in clay research or

technology.

b) Application for individual or corporate membership shall be made in writing to the ... Treasurer and be accompanied by the appropriate membership fee. Applications

from Societies wishing to become Affiliated shall be made to the Secretary General in

writing giving relevant information on field of interest, number of members, etc.: if approved by Council (which shall not be required to give any reason for non-

approval) the Society shall become Affiliated on payment of the appropriate

membership fee. c) Membership will be for the period for which the membership fee is paid. If it is one

year's dues the member will be in good standing for one year. If the membership fee is

not paid, the membership may be cancelled unless there are extenuating circumstances which will be determined by the Council...”

By-Laws: “Individuals 65 years of age and older who have been individual members for 12 years

or more shall automatically become Life Members on notification to the Treasurer. A

Life Member must verify his membership every 4 years coinciding with the year of the International Clay Conference...”

To facilitate the admission of new members, AIPEA made available the Membership Application Form at its web page http://www.aipea.org/downloads/aipea_membership_application_form.pdf.

Those interested in being part of this organization should fill it out, print, sign and mail it,

accompanied by the appropriate membership fee (as international money order), to the AIPEA Treasurer:

Dr. Jeanne B. Percival ([email protected])

c/o Geological Survey of Canada

601 Booth Street

Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1A0E8

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35TH INTERNATIONALGEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

August 27th-September 04th, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa

Chair: Jay Barton E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: http://www.35igc.org/

24TH BIENNIAL AUSTRALIAN CLAY MINERALS CONFERENCE

To be held in 2016 Chair: Will Gates

E-mail: [email protected]

2017

16TH INTERNATIONAL CLAY CONFERENCE – ICC 2017

July, 2017, Granada, Spain

Chair: Alberto LOPEZ GALINDO


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1. 2013’S PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Dear fellow clay scientists,

It is a great pleasure to address you, in my capacity of President of AIPEA, this report after

just 7 months of activity. I would like to say to you, once again, that it is an honour to be the

representative of the clay science community for the next four years. It seemed, during the

last two decades, that the number of clay scientists was decreasing worldwide but new

horizons are unfolding. As I pointed out during the last General Meeting of our Association

(Rio de Janeiro, 11th July 2013), there is a renewed scientific interest for clay sized minerals and materials. And this is not just my feeling. I had the opportunity to participate in the 2nd

International Conference on Clays, Clay Minerals and Layered Materials (CMLM2013) in

Russia and in the 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society in USA. The number of participants and variety of their contributions are the best witness of the

renewed vitality of Clay Science.

As many of you know, in 2010, AIPEA published a book that collected the lectures given at

the first edition of the AIPEA School for Young Scientists (ASYS). Last December, the book

was revised and the 2nd edition was legally deposited (ISBN: 978-88-7522-046-4; ISSN:

2283-687X). Therefore, the AIPEA Educational Series has become a serial publication and

“Interstratified Clay Minerals: Origin, Characterization and Geochemical Significance” is its

first volume.

The second volume will collect the lectures presented at the II ASYS (Magnesian clays:

Characterization, origin and applications) held in Rio de Janeiro on 6-7 July 2013. Its publication is expected for the end of this year. I would like to thank the lecturers for all their

efforts in preparing the contributions, Manuel Pozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,

Spain) for acting as Editor and the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio delle Argille (AISA, the Italian clay group of AIPEA) for the economic support of this editorial initiative.

We must not forget that AIPEA is an umbrella organization whose main aims are the

worldwide promotion of clay research and technology and the international cooperation

among clay societies. In the next four years, the Council will make every possible effort to

adopt new initiatives and proposals but they will succeed only if we are able to work all together. I would like to invite you to stay in touch with the representatives of your national

group and to encourage you all to share information regarding scientific matters, including

announcements on upcoming meetings, research projects and national/international initiatives in the clay world. Now you can do this using the AIPEA mailing list: [email protected].

As a member of the AIPEA, your name is automatically included in the list but if it is not so, you can subscribe sending an empty message to [email protected]. You may remove it

at any time by just sending an empty message to [email protected]

Another list server will be used by the Executive Council to contact AIPEA members

([email protected]). Your reply to emails from this address will be sent to the initial

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sender. If you wish to contact the Council’s Members please visit the AIPEA website at www.aipea.org

AIPEA is continuing to publish reports on the Society’s life on Elements. Our affiliation to this very important magazine is a powerful means to communicate with the mineralogical and

geochemical community. Please let Dr. Barbosa Alves, our Secretary-General, or me know if

you have information that deserves the attention of the scientific societies. We can include it on our six-month report on the Journal.

AIPEA also continues to be an affiliated society to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and provides information for the IUSG bulletin, another excellent way to

communicate with the scientific societies all around the world and to integrate AIPEA into

international geological activities.

AIPEA has now 24 Affiliated Societies or groups from worldwide. Unfortunately, we have

received no news from some of them in the last years. I would like yet to learn if these societies / groups are still in activity and willing to cooperate with AIPEA in the promotion of

Clay Science. AIPEA Newsletter has a specific section for this. Please take some time to

check if your society / group has effectively sent report to AIPEA. If not, I would like to encourage you to contact your representative and reinforce the importance of doing this small

gesture of international cooperation.

Last, but by no means least, I would like to invite you to stay in touch with the AIPEA

Council and to provide information on activities related to micro and nanominerals. Don’t

forget what I said in my first presidential speech: If we run independently, just one of us will win. If we all walk together, we will go far, we will get to the finishing line all together, and

we all will have won.

With best wishes

By Saverio Fiore

February / 2014

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June, 7-13th, 2015, Castellaneta Marina, Italy Contact: Saverio Fiore

Adress: AMAM 2015 c/o Dept. Geoenvironmental & Earth Sciences

University Aldo Moro – Bari Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari – Italy

Phones: +39 080 544 2618 , +39 0971 42 7224 , +39 080 544 2614

E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.amam2015.org

6TH WORKSHOP ON QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF

CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS

March, 9-13th, 2015, Karlsruhe, Germany Organized by: Katja Emmerich and Annett Steudel

Contact: [email protected]

EUROCLAY 2015

July, 5-10th, 2015, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Organizers: European Clay Group Association & Clay Minerals Group of the Mineralogical

Society of Great Britain & Ireland, The Clay Minerals Society and the International Natural

Zeolite Association Chair: Steve Hillier

Internet: http://www.minersoc.org/euroclay.html

MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2015

August, 02-06th, 2015, Portland, OR, USA Contact: Nicole Guy


25TH GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE

August, 16-21st, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic Organizers: European Association of Geochemistry & Geochemical Society

Internet: http://goldschmidt.info/2015/

2016

MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2016

July, 24-28th, 2015, Columbus, OH, USA Contact: Nicole Guy


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3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPETITIVE MATERIALS AND

TECHNOLOGY PROCESSES

October, 6-10th., 2014, Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary

Chair: László A. GÖMZE

E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.ic-cmtp3.eu

12ÈME COLLOQUE ANNUEL DU GROUP FRANÇAIS DES ARGILES / 24ÈME

RÉUNION DES SCIENCES DE LA TERRE

October, 27-31st, 2014, Pau, France Internet: http://www.gfa.asso.fr/actualite

XX LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF SOIL SCIENCE & XVI PERUVIAN

CONGRESS OF SOIL SCIENCE

November, 9-15th, Cusco, Peru Chair: Braulio La Torre Martínez

Address: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina

Departamento de Suelos de la Facultad de Agronomía Av. La Molina s/n, La Molina

Lima 12 - Perú

Phones: (+51) 6147800; Anexo 219 Mobile: (+51) 956744282 or (+51) 997217560

Internet: www.xxcongresolatinoamericanodesuelosperu.org


MATÉRIAUX 2014

November, 24-28th, 2014, Montpellier, France

Chairs: Olivier ISNARD and Jérôme CREPIN

Internet: www.materiaux2014.net/

2015

6TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING: CLAYS IN NATURAL AND ENGINEERED

BARRIERS FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE CONFINEMENT

March, 23-26th, 2015, Brussels, Belgium

AMAM 2015 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED MINERALOGY &

ADVANCED MATERIALS

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2. AIPEA OFFICERS AND COUNCIL

The AIPEA Council has been elected during the 15th International Clay Conference at Rio de

Janeiro (Brazil), in July 2013. The Officers and Councillors who will work for AIPEA during 2013-2017 are as follows:

AIPEA Executive Officers for 2013-2017

Dr. Saverio FIORE, President

Head of the Microminerals, Health & Environment Research Group Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council of Italy

c/o Department of Earth & Geoenvironmental Sciences Via Orabona. 4 - 70125 Bari

Italy

Phone: +39 080 544 2618 - Fax: +39 080 544 2591 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

Prof. Joseph W. STUCKI, Vice-President

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

University of Illinois

W-321 Turner Hall, 1102 S. Goodwin Avenue - Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A.

Phone: +1 217 333 9636

E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

Prof. Christopher BREEN, Past President

Head of Advanced Composites and Coatings Materials and Engineering Research Institute

Sheffield Hallam University

Howard Street - Sheffield S1 1WB

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)114 225 3008 - Fax: +44 (0)114 225 3501


Dr. Daisy Barbosa ALVES, Secretary-General

Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. Research Center (CENPES)

Rua Horacio Macedo 950 - Cidade Universitaria

Ilha do Fundao - Rio de Janeiro – RJ - CEP: 21941-915 Brazil

Phone: +55 21 2162 6438 - Fax: +55 21 2162 4562


Dr. Jeanne B. PERCIVAL, Treasurer

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Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street, Ottawa - Ontario KIA OE8

Canada

Phone: +1 613 992 4496 - Fax: +1 613 943 1286 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

AIPEA Council Members for 2013-2017

Dr. F. Javier HUERTAS (Councillor, 2nd term)

Estación Experimental del Zaidin, CSIC c/ Profesor Albareda 1 - 18008 Granada

Spain Phone: +34 958 181600 ext. 226 - Fax: +34 958 131460


Dr. Balwant SINGH (Councillor, 2nd term)

Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

The University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW 2006

Australia

Phone: +61 2 9351 2237 - Fax +61 2 9351 2945


Prof. Helge STANJEK (Councillor, 2nd term)

Institute of Mineralogy and Economic Geology - RWTH Wuellnerstr. 2, D-52056 Aachen

Germany


Dr. Georgios CHRISTIDIS (Councillor, 1st term)

Dept. Mineral Resources Engineering

Technical University of Crete

73100 Chania

Greece Phone: +30 38210 27622 - Fax: +30 38210 37888


Dr. Victoria KRUPSKAYA (Councillor, 1st term)

Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Russian Academy of Science 119017, Staromonetniy per., 35

Russian Federation

Tel: +7 (499) 230 82 96, +7 (926) 819 63 98; Fax: +7 (495) 951 15 87


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August, 5-12th, 2014, Quebec, Canada Internet: http://iucr2014.org

V INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LAYERED MATERIALS

August, 27-29th, 2013, Mulhouse, France

Chairpersons: Jocelyne Brendlé and Pierre Rabu E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: http://www.iwlm2014.uha.fr

THIRD RUSSIAN SCHOOL BY CLAY MINERALS “ARGILLA STUDIUM-2014”

Autumn, 2014 Internet: www.ruclay.com

21ST GENERAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL

ASSOCIATION – IMA2014

September, 1-5th, 2014, Gauteng, South Africa Organizers: Sabine Verryn, Desh Chetty and Craig Smith

Phone: +27 11 463 5085 Fax: +27 11 463 3265

E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Internet: www.ima2014.co.za

XXIII REUNIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE ARCILLAS

September, 10-12th, 2014, Toledo, Spain

Chair: Emilia García Romero E-mail: [email protected]

7TH MID-EUROPEAN CLAY CONFERENCE - MECC2014

September, 16-19th, 2014, Radebeul, Germany (nearby Dresden)

Conference Chairs: Dr. Reinhard Kleeberg, [email protected] Prof. Dr. Helge Stanjek, [email protected]

Organizer: Martin Singer

Phone: +49 (0)3641 31 16 310 Fax: +49 (0)3641 31 16 243 E-mail : [email protected]

Internet: http://www.mecc2014.de/

92ND ANNUAL MEETING DEUTSCHE MINERALOGISCHE GESELLSCHAFT

(DMG) 2014

September, 21-24th, 2014, Jena, Germany

Internet: http://www.dmg2014.de/

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Internet: http://www.bitconferences.com/wcam2014

DUST 2014 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARTICULATE MATTER

June, 7-13th, 2014, Castellaneta Marina, Italy

Chair: Saverio Fiore

Address: International Conference on Atmospheric Dust – DUST2014 c/o Dept. Geoenvironmental & Earth Sciences

University Aldo Moro – Bari

Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari – Italy Phones: +39 080 5442618 / +39 080 5442614 / +39 0971 427224


Internet: http://www.dust2014.org

20TH WORLD CONGRESS OF SOIL SCIENCE

June, 8-13th, 2014, Jeju, Korea

Chairs: Kwang-Yong Jung and Hae-Nam Hyun

Phone: +82-2-566-5058, +82-2-557-8422~3 Fax +82-2-566-6087 E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: www.20wcss.org

ZEOLITE 2014

June, 8-13th, 2014, Belgrade, Serbia Chairs: Aleksandra Daković and Marina Trgo

E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

Internet: http://www.ktf-split.hr/zeolite2014

2014 GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE

June, 8-13th, 2014, Sacramento, California, USA

Chair: Paul Renne

E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.goldschmidt.info/2014

MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2014 in conjunction with IUMAS-6

August, 3-7th, 2014, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Chair: Edward P. Vicenzi

Internet: www.iumas6.org

23RD CONGRESS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION

OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

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Dr. Makoto OGAWA (Councillor, 1st term) Department of Earth Sciences,

Waseda University

Nishiwaseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-8050, JAPAN

FAX: +81-3-3207-4950


Representative of the 16th

ICC Dr. Alberto LOPEZ GALINDO

Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Director CSIC - Universidad de Granada

Av. de las Palmeras- 18100 Armilla (Granada)

Spain Phone: +34 958 230 000 ext. 190212 - Fax: +34 958 552620


Committees

Teaching Committee, Chair

Dr. Sabine PETIT

FRE3114 CNRS HydrASA, Université de Poitiers

40 Avenue du Recteur Pineau - F-86022 Poitiers cedex France

Phone: +33 (0)549 453 756 - Fax: +33 (0)549 454 241


Nomenclature Committee, Chair

Prof. Stephen GUGGENHEIM University of Illinois at Chicago

Department of Geological Sciences

845 West Taylor Street, M/C 186 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago Illinois 60607-7059

U.S.A.

Phone: +1 312 996 3263 – Fax: +1 312 413 2279 E-mail: [email protected]

Hazardous Minerals Committee, Chair

Dr. Saverio FIORE

Head of the Microminerals, Health & Environment Research Group

Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis National Research Council of Italy

c/o Department of Earth & Geoenvironmental Sciences

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Via Orabona. 4 - 70125 Bari Italy

Phone: +39 080 544 2618 - Fax: +39 080 544 2591


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ANNUAL RESEARCH IN PROGRESS MEETING - CLAY MINERALS &

ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY GROUPS

March, 20-21st, 2014, Durham, UK

Convenors: Chris Greenwell and Caroline Peacock E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: http://www.minersoc.org/cmg-rip-2014

1ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN AFRICA -

ISMGAF

March, 24-26th, 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa

Contact: Hassina Mouri

E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.uj.ac.za/geology

EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014

April 27th-May 02nd, 2014, Vienna, Austria

Contact: Copernicus Meetings Bahnhofsallee 1e

37081 Göttingen - Germany

Phone +49-551-900339-20 Fax +49-551-900339-70 E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: http://www.egu2014.eu

58TH BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ON CERAMICS - 58º CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO

DE CERÂMICA

May, 18-21st, 2014, Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Chair: Samuel M. Toffoli – ABC / Poli-USP

Phone / Fax: +55(11) 3768-7101 or +55(11) 3768-4284

Internet: http://www.metallum.com.br/58cbc


51ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY

May, 17-21st, 2014, College Station, TX, USA Contact: Youjun Deng

E-mail: [email protected] Internet: https://cms2014.tamu.edu

3RD ANNUAL WORLD CONGRESS OF ADVANCED MATERIALS‐2014 -

WCAM‐2014

June, 6-9th, 2014, Chongqing, China

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11. RECENT AND UPCOMING MEETINGS

2014

WORKSHOP MINERALOGIA APLICADA – Homenaje Al Prof. Emilio Galán

January, 16-17th, 2014, Sevilla, Spain

Chair: Isabel Gonzalez Diez


23RD BIENNIAL AUSTRALIAN CLAY MINERALS CONFERENCE

February, 3-5th, 2014, Perth CBD, Australia

Chair: Prof. Bob Gilkes Phone: +61 8 6488 2509 Mob: +61 4 6699 7374

Fax: +61 8 6488 1050


3RD AUSTRALIAN REGOLITH GEOSCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE –

ARGA

February, 6-7th, 2014, Perth/Bunbury, Australia

E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://regolith.org.au

AUSTRALIAN X-RAY ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

February, 9-13th, 2014, Perth, WA, Australia

Chair: Vanessa Peterson Phone: + (02) 9717 9401 Fax: + (02) 9717 3606

Internet: http://www.axaa.org

22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE GERMAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC

SOCIETY (DGK)

March, 17-20th, 2014, Henry-Ford-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Organization: Conventus Congressmanangement & Marketing GmbH

Felix Angermüller Carl-Pulfrich-Straße 1

07745 Jena - Germany Phone: +49 (0)3641 311 63 01 Fax: +49 (0)3641 311 62 40


Internet: http://www.dgk-conference.de

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3. AIPEA WEBSITE

The AIPEA Website at http://www.aipea.org is the most important means of communication

for the international community dedicated to Clays and Clay Minerals since its creation in 2007, because it provides extensive information about many aspects of AIPEA and the clay

sciences. Therefore it is an important tool helping AIPEA fulfills its main purposes.

Information about several topics of AIPEA activities can be easily find such as: mission,

purposes, organization, statutes and by-laws, membership, council, publications, newsletters

in a searchable way (a few specimens are missing or incomplete and we hope contribution to fill these gaps), committees, affiliated societies (name of the person who is responsible for

contact with AIPEA), awards and medals (list of winners), historical overview; and links to

several National Clay Societies (NCG) websites and to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), which AIPEA is affiliated to. By now AIPEA members can also find a page

dedicated to multimedia archive and intended to keep good memories of AIPEA events

available for its members. It includes pictures from ASYS and 14ICC sent by participants and the links to the plenary lectures and ceremonies at 14ICC, as well as to uploaded photos of the

prize winners and award ceremonies.

There is a general sense that the AIPEA website should include the records of historical

decisions, documents, the composition of old committees, distinguished clay scientists, etc.

The perusal of old AIPEA Newsletters will propitiate recovering most of this past but the cooperation of those who have historical documents or photos will be warmly acknowledged.

During 2013, many relevant technical activities around the world have been announced through the AIPEA Website, continuously updated by AIPEA Webmaster, Dr. Saverio Fiore.

It offers a long list of events (conferences, courses, projects, etc.) for 2014 and following

years in a complementary page (http://www.aipea.org/conferences.html). This list can also be found in the traditional way at the end of this newsletter.

We recommend that all AIPEA members and sympathizers undertake a systematic perusal of

its contents in order to become updated with the many opportunities that are available around

the world. We also ask you to check whether their NGC is listed and if it is not – then

encourage those in charge to make contact and to publicize their activities on the AIPEA Website.

Finally, all AIPEA members are encouraged to check the information currently available at its website and provide additional contributions. If errors are noticed, please inform us

immediately so that we can make the proper corrections. Please remain in contact with us by sending news of relevant activities and events to the AIPEA webmaster Dr. Saverio Fiore

([email protected]) and/or to the AIPEA Secretary-General Dr. Daisy Barbosa Alves

([email protected] or [email protected]).

Daisy Barbosa Alves

February / 2014

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4. AIPEA LIST SERVER

The Clay and Clay Minerals International Community has now a new way of communication:

the AIPEA list server. This is intended to make available quickly information about all areas of clay sciences. This initiative took place thanks to the great efforts of the AIPEA President

and webmaster, Dr. Saverio Fiore, and to the collaboration of the representatives of several

AIPEA Affiliated Societies. We urge those National Clay Groups (NCG) that have not yet

sent the e-mail list of their fellows to do so. This will make agile the propagation of

information which is of global interest.

The AIPEA list server automatically contains the e-mail addresses of all AIPEA members and

from those of its Affiliated Societies all around the world. These addresses have already been

uploaded and the first message about how to get a free copy of the first volume of AIPEA Educational Series (AES) was liberated.

We encourage all clay scientists who are not yet AIPEA member (nor a member of an Affiliated Society) to make their inscription by filling the form available at AIPEA website

(http://www.aipea.org/downloads/aipea_membership_application_form.pdf) or at the end of

this newsletter. By doing so, newcomers will automatically be included in the mailing list.

We take this opportunity to remind all AIPEA members about the importance of paying their

membership fee on time. If it is one year's dues, the member will be in good standing for one year. However we encourage all to pay for the period of 4-years, which will make easier

participation in all AIPEA activities longer. According to AIPEA statute and by-laws, if the

membership fee is not paid, the membership may be cancelled and excluded from AIPEA list server.

If you belong to a National Clay Group and are not yet receiving messages from AIPEA list-server, please forward a message to your representative reminding him/her to send us an

updated e-mail list of its members. In a close future all communication among AIPEA

members (and those from AIPEA Affiliated Societies) will be done more easily through it.

Besides the list server for members ([email protected]), AIPEA organized as well a "Talk

list" ([email protected]) for people interested in Clay Science latu sensu, but who are not yet engaged in NCGs or AIPEA. Those interested in participate in the AIPEA talk list server

should send a message to [email protected] . Subscription to the list is completely free

and you may remove your name from the list at any time sending a message to [email protected] .

If you want to share with AIPEA members information about any topic related to clay and

clay minerals please send a synthetic message to the AIPEA webmaster

([email protected]) and/or to the AIPEA Secretary-General Dr. Daisy Barbosa Alves ([email protected] or [email protected]).

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10. OBITUARY: MAX MERLE MORTLAND (1923-2013)

Prof. Max Merle Mortland, retired Distinguished Professor

of Soil Science and Geology at Michigan State University,

passed away on July 29th, 2013, at the age of 90. He was an

enthusiastic clay scientist and recognized member of the

world clay science community. His main activities were

deeply linked to The Clay Minerals (North American) Society and from them he received both the Distinguished

Member Award in 1988 and the Pioneer in Clay Science

Lecture Award in 1996. More information about his work and main scientific achievements was recently published by

Pinnavaia (2013). Here we would like to highlight his main

contributions as AIPEA active member during his long career as scientist.

A perusal at the previous editions of AIPEA Newsletter

shows several references of Prof. Mortland’s colaboration in

AIPEA activities as well as in National or Regional Societies / Groups around the world. He

had contributed as keynote speaker, teacher and / or lecturer in many technical events.

He served as AIPEA Editor-in-Chief by the period 1975-1978. During this tenure, he and

Prof. Farmer were responsible by the edition of the Proceedings of the Sixth International Clay Conference held in Oxford (UK), and made available in 1978.

He also was participant of several activities of AIPEA and some are mentioned in the old AIPEA newsletter, as for example his cooperation as a member of the Nominating Committee

in the year 1983.

AIPEA would like to express its gratitude to Prof. Mortland by his warm cooperation and

joint the international community in this plain tribute, sending sincere condolences to

Professor Mortland's wife, children and family.

References:

Mortland, M.M. & Farmer, V.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the sixth international clay conference, Oxford, England, 10-14 July, 1978. Developments in sedimentology 27, Elsevier,

Amsterdam, New York, 1979, 662 p.

Pinnavaia, T.J. In memoriam Max Merle Mortland 1923-2013 - Obituary. Applied Clay

Science, vol. 85, pg. 116, November 2013.

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9. NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE - 2013

Report of the AIPEA Nomenclature Committee for AIPEA Newsletter.

Committee members include: S. Guggenheim (Chair), F. Bergaya, M.F. Brigatti, E. Galan, V.

Drits, M.L.L. Formoso, T. Kogure, H. Stanjek, ex officio: J. Adams, J. Stucki.

The AIPEA Nomenclature Committee does not have any issues presently under consideration.

If anyone would like to suggest clay-science issues that should be considered by the

Committee, please write to the Chair, S. Guggenheim (e-mail: [email protected]).

S. Guggenheim,

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At last, I would like to mention the chain reaction which followed the second message sent by AIPEA-Talk list server with the announcement of a new edition of AIPEA Newsletter, at the

end of 2013. We apologize for the problems caused by untrained person which lead us to lock

temporarily the list. We revised the authorizations to the list in order to prevent such hysteria and incidental (and intentional) manipulation.

Daisy Barbosa Alves

February / 2014

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5. TREASURER’S REPORT (JAN.–DEC. 2013)

Overall, AIPEA is in a positive financial situation where all conference-related activities and

awards are funded. This is mainly due to the support of several National Clay Groups. The international community is growing and new National Clay Groups will be on board to

support AIPEA activities starting this year, 2014. In addition we continue to contribute to

Elements which ensures that we have access to the larger mineralogy community.

National Clay Groups

AIPEA executives wish to acknowledge the continuing financial support from clay societies of Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and U.S.A. (+Canada). This year we will welcome

the clay societies from Croatia, Slovakia and Tunisia. With the support of these and future

national clay groups we should be able to offer more travel grants to students to attend the ICC meetings, and continue to give prizes to the best oral and poster presentations at both the

ICC and Euroclay meetings.

Awards

At the XV ICC, AIPEA funded travel and registration for the AIPEA Fellow (Dr. Robert

Schoonheydt), $1000 US and registration for the Bradley Award winner (Ms. Ana C. S.

Alcântara) and student travel grants of $500 and registration for Mr. Gabriel G. Machado

Álvarez and Mr. Valentin Robin, and registration for a local student, Ms. Dayse Mirella

Oliveira Timóteo. Congratulations to our award winners. We hope that more students will apply for these grants to attend the 16th ICC in Granada, Spain and that AIPEA members will

make the effort to nominate their colleagues for the prestigious AIPEA Medal and AIPEA

Fellow awards.

Student Oral and Poster Awards

During the ICC meeting, many of the Executive participated in listening to oral presentations and discussing findings at posters with students. Although we recognize that we may have

missed a few, the selection of best oral and poster and runner-up oral and poster is a difficult

task. At the XV ICC there were 6 awards given one each for best oral and best poster ($150

US each) and ties for runner-up for oral and poster presentations ($75 US each).

Website Support

The website will now be supported by AIPEA. We need to acknowledge the contributions of

Dr. Saverio Fiore and the Italian Clay Group for setting up the website and keeping it up to

date.

Financial Statement

The Balance Sheet and Profits & Loss statements are provided for 2013. Website support is

under “Supplies” and Elements support.

By Jeanne Percival

March / 2014

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6. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT

REPORTING FORM FOR IUGS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS 2013

1. Overall objectives

The `Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Argiles` (AIPEA) is an umbrella

organisation for the world’s national clay societies. The aim of AIPEA is to promote

international co-operation in clay research and technology. To fulfill this purpose its

activities shall include the organization of: meetings - such as International Clay

Conferences; field excursions; visits to centres of clay research and technology; publication of issues on clay research and technology and of a periodical Newsletter to

inform members of activities concerned with clay research; co-operation with other

organizations having an interest in clay research and technology.

2. Relate goals to overall IUGS scientific objectives

1. Organize and / or collaborate in the organization of conferences of clay worldwide

interest; 2. Stimulation of excellency in young clay scientists;

3. Rewarding active clay scientists with a brilliant career in clay research; and

4. Stimulation of communication along clay researchers and technologists.

3. Structure and organization

AIPEA is administrated by a council formed by: the President, the Vice-President, the

Secretary General, the Treasurer (Officers), the immediate Past-President, six Ordinary Councillors, representatives of the Organizing Committee of next International Clay

Conference, and the Chairs of the Nomenclature Committee, Teaching Committee and

Hazardous Minerals. Updated list with the names of members of AIPEA Council for 2013-2017 includes:

Dr. Saverio FIORE, President - [email protected] (or [email protected])

Prof. Joseph W. STUCKI, Vice-President - [email protected] Dr. Daisy Barbosa ALVES, Secretary-General - [email protected] (or

[email protected])

Dr. Jeanne B. PERCIVAL, Treasurer - [email protected] (or [email protected])

Prof. Christopher BREEN, Past President - [email protected]

Dr. F. Javier HUERTAS (Councillor, 2nd term)

Dr. Balwant SINGH (Councillor, 2nd term) Prof. Helge STANJEK (Councillor, 2nd term)

Dr. Georgios CHRISTIDIS (Councillor, 1st term)

Dr. Victoria KRUPSKAYA (Councillor, 1st term) Dr. Makoto OGAWA (Councillor, 1st term)

Dr. Alberto LOPEZ GALINDO (Representative of the 16th. ICC) Dr. Sabine PETIT, Teaching committee

Prof. Stephen GUGGENHEIM, Nomenclature committee

Dr. Saverio FIORE, Hazardous Minerals committee

4. Interaction with other International organizations and projects

AIPEA have 24 affiliated societies / groups from around the world: Algerian Clay

Group, Australian Clay Minerals Society, (British & Irish) Clay Minerals Group, Clay

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Science Society of Japan, Croatian Clay Group, Czech National Clay Group, Dutch Clay Group, French Clay Group, German-Austrian-Swiss Clay Group, Korean Clay

Science Society, Hungarian Clay Group, Israel Society of Clay Research, Italian

Association for the Study of Clays, Nordic Society for Clay Research, (North American) Clay Minerals Society, Polish Clay Group, Portuguese Clay Group, Romanian Group

for the Study of Clays and Clay Minerals, Russian Clay Group, Slovak Clay Group,

Spanish Clay Society, Tunisian Clay Group, Turkish National Committee of Clay Sciences, Ukrainian Clay Group.

AIPEA has three committees working in key themes of international interest:

Nomenclature, Teaching and Hazardous Minerals.

5. Chief products

The International Clay Conference (ICC), which takes place every four years, is AIPEA

main activity. The 15th edition of this event took place in Rio de Janeiro from July 7 to 11, 2013.

Besides this, AIPEA continues to further improve its website as a source of information

and support for the worldwide clay community (www.aipea.org). AIPEA also produces an annual Newsletter which circulated among its members via e-

mail and is also made accessible via the AIPEA Website.

AIPEA has published the first monograph in the AIPEA Educational Series.

6. Chief accomplishments 2013 and plans for 2014

AIPEA celebrated 50 years of activity during the 15th ICC in Rio de Janeiro. The new

Council is organizing the many activities searching for a better interaction with the clay communities all around the world.

7. Specify how any IUGS Allocation for 2013 was used

AIPEA is financially independent and receives income from individual members and affiliated societies and for registrations to the International Clay Conferences.

8. Budget request with justification for 2014 (only applicable to low income affiliates)

None.

9. Does your website have a link to IUGS?

Yes.

Name, address and e-mail of person preparing this report:

Dr. Daisy Barbosa ALVES Secretary General

Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Research Center (CENPES)

Rua Horácio Macedo 950, Cidade Universitária ZIP: 21941-915 - Ilha do Fundão - Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Brazil November/2013

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topics related to the beginning of its activities. The following council members participated on this meeting:

Dr. Saverio FIORE, President and chair of Hazardous Minerals Committee Dr. Daisy Barbosa ALVES, Secretary-General


Dr. F. Javier HUERTAS (Councillor, 2nd term) Dr. Balwant SINGH (Councillor, 2nd term)

Dr. Victoria KRUPSKAYA (Councillor, 1st term)

Dr. Alberto LOPEZ GALINDO (Representative of the 16th. ICC) Dr. Sabine PETIT (Chair of Teaching Committee

Prof. Stephen GUGGENHEIM (Chair of Nomenclature Committee)

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8. COUNCIL AFFAIRS

The AIPEA Ordinary Council Meeting took place on July 7th 2013 at Rio de Janeiro, before

the beginning of the XV International Clay Conference. The Council was represented by:

Prof. Kiyoshi OKADA, Vice-president

Prof. David L. BISH, Past President

Dr. Daisy BARBOSA ALVES, Secretary-General


Dr. Saverio FIORE, Councillor 2 term and Chair Asbestos committee Dr. F. Javier HUERTAS, Councillor 1 term

Prof. Warren HUFF, Councillor 1 term

Dr. Sabine PETIT, Councillor 1 term Dr. Balwant SINGH, Councillor 1 term

Prof. Stephen GUGGENHEIM, Chair Nomenclature committee

Justifications for the absence of AIPEA President, Christopher Breen; the councilor Prof.

Helge STANJEK; and the chair of the Teaching Committee Prof. Giora RYTWO have been

presented and accepted by the Council. The meeting was guided by Dr. David Bish acting as

AIPEA President.

They deliberated on several topics of interest of AIPEA and of the international clay community, such as:

The 16th ICC will be organized by the Spanish Clay Society, in 2017, in Granada.

Approval of the treasurer`s report.

Acceptance of the Tunisian Clay Group (TCG) and the Korean Clay Science Society (KorClay) as new AIPEA Affiliated Societies (See AIPEA Memoranda 04 and 05/2013

ahead).

Approval of Dr. Robert Schoonheydt as AIPEA Life Member (See AIPEA Memorandum 06/2013).

Presentation of a report about the activities of the Nomenclature Committee by Prof.

Guggenheim.

Approval of the new AIPEA Council for the period 2013-2017 (See specific section in this Newsletter).

Endorsement of the list of winners of all AIPEA Awards and Grants. They are: a-Ana Clecia Santos Alcântara as Bradley Award winner,

b-Robert Schoonheydt as new AIPEA Fellow,

c-Student Travel Awards winners were: Dayse Mirella Oliveira Timóteo, Gabriel G. Machado Álvarez, and Valentin Robin.

All councillors present accepted to be part of the committee that would evaluate the Oral and Poster Best Student Presentations.

The New Council first Meeting took place after AIPEA General Assembly on July 11th

2013, guided by the new AIPEA President, Dr. Saverio Fiore. It was dedicated exclusively to

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7. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CLAY GROUPS

This section gathers all the reports sent by the AIPEA Affiliated Societies up to February

2014. It represents an effort to coordinate communication between all the National Clay

Society members and the individual members of AIPEA. The extensive coverage that it offers was planned so that all of those interested in clay matters could have easy access to updated

information. The aim is for it to constitute a key vehicle for communicating the activities of

our member societies.

Together, AIPEA Website and AIPEA Newsletter are the principal tools that enable the

fulfillment of the Association main purpose, which is the worldwide promotion of clay research and technology through international cooperation.

AIPEA would also like to expand its activities to countries without formal clay societies/groups. This initiative aims to convey information not easily available otherwise to

the international communities and to encourage the formation of National Clay Societies in

those countries where such societies have not yet been officially created. This can be provided alternatively by ‘liaison-officers’ who correspond to active clay scientists willing to

contribute with news about clay activities in their countries.

During XV International Clay Conference, AIPEA Council has formally accepted the

proposals presented by Tunisian Clay Group (TCG) and Korean Clay Science Society

(KSSC) to become new AIPEA Affiliated Societies (See AIPEA Memoranda 04 and 05/2013 in the section 8). We welcome these new societies which expand the action of AIPEA in new

geographical areas. We encourage all AIPEA members to check the newcomers’ homepages

through the links added to the AIPEA website.

This issue of AIPEA Newsletter has received reports from many affiliated societies / groups

and some others from liaison-officers. We are very grateful to those who answered our call for cooperation. However reports from several traditional affiliated societies are still missing

and we would like to encourage their representatives to publish their reports next year.

The readers will notice that the content of each report are particular from each society which

brings together their national flavor. Some reports included many photos and we had to make

a selection of them in order to keep the size of this edition easy to be distributed by digital means. So we wish you a pleasant reading.

Daisy Barbosa Alves AIPEA Secretary-General

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ALGERIA

ALGERIAN CLAY GROUP

Report not available.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY

The 23rd Conference of the Australian Clay Minerals Society (ACMS) was held at the

beginning of February 2014. The Conference was organised by Prof. Bob Gilkes (UWA) with assistance from Andrew Thomas (Chevron), Horst Zwingmann (CSIRO) and, of course,

Bob’s University of Western Australia team. The first two days of the Conference, held at the

Trinity Conference Centre adjacent to the University of Western Australia Campus in Perth, were devoted to oral presentations. Keynote speakers were Paul Bertsch (Chief, CSIRO Land

and Water), Cliff Johnston (Purdue University) and Dave Dewhurst (CSIRO, CESRE). Paul’s

presentation was on the nano-scale properties of clays and how these properties affect the fate of natural and manufactured nano-materials in the environment. Cliff gave a presentation

detailing his novel work on the properties of nano-confined water in halloysite and smectite

and the important role that the nano-confined water plays in the physical properties of clays. Dave’s presentation looked at the impact of water content and partial saturation on the

properties of clay-bearing shales. Dave’s presentation commenced the second day of the

Conference that was held in conjunction with members of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia and was devoted to “Clays and Hydrocarbons”.

The third day of the Conference was a field trip to Alcoa’s bauxite operations in the Darling Scarp to the south east of Perth and to Iluka’s mineral sands operation approximately 150km

south of Perth. The field trip was held in conjunction with the Australian Regolith

Geoscientists Association (http://regolith.org.au). The field trip had two focuses. The first

focus was an overview of bauxite and mineral sands mining operations and the role of clays in

the processing of the mined ore. The second focus was on the rehabilitation of the surface

mines at the end of their operational life. Both Alcoa and Illuka have put considerable effort and taken considerable care in rehabilitating their mine sites. The ACMS thanks Alcoa and

Illuka for their assistance in running the Conference field trip and for allowing such open

access to their operations.

All agree that the Conference was a great success. The complete set of Abstracts from the Conference is available on the ACMS web site. We all look forward to the 24th ACMS

Conference that is being organised by Will Gates and will be held in 2016.

During 2013 and in early 2014, a number of honours were bestowed on ACMS members.

Balwant Singh (Past President) was awarded The Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Soil

Science Award by the Soil Science Society of America. Jock Churchman was presented with

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Richard McCabe Harry Shaw

Kevin Taylor

Nick Tosca Craig Williams

Jeff Wilson

2. Meetings in 2013

Our first ‘Annual’ Research in Progress meeting at Durham on March 26th (organised by

Chris Greenwell, the Group’s Vice Chair) went extremely well. 35 people took part and the presentations, which covered a broad spectrum of interests, were enthusiastically given and

received. It was interesting to see several people who had dropped out of the Clay Minerals

Group (CMG) fold in recent years and also new people (to whom it was a surprise that Mineralogical Society was interested in this ‘hi tech stuff’).

The meeting went so well that we will have another in Durham in March 2014, in collaboration with the Environmental Mineralogy Group of the Mineralogical Society.

Members of the CMG helped organise and contributed to the Mineralogical Society meeting - ‘Minerals for Life’ (Edinburgh, 17th - 19th June) - contributing mostly to Theme 2 (Functional

Materials). Our first industrial George Brown Lecture was given by Jon Phipps (Imerys

Minerals). CMG also sponsored the meeting/ speakers.

Members of the CMG Committee also organised a session at the British Sedimentological

Research Group meeting in Hull in December.

In the near future the Committee will be discussing at least one more meeting in 2014,

preferably involving other collaborating groups/organizations.

3. CMG-Sponsored Activities:

CMG sponsored a keynote at the Cements and Concrete Science 2013 meeting in Portsmouth.

Richard Ball (U Bath) spoke on ‘Hydraulic lime mortars – a study of mechanical properties’.

4. Euroclay 2015

Steve Hillier and a well defined Euroclay group have continued to make good progress in

working up the Conference arrangement, speakers, supporters etc.

John Adams and Simon Kemp

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Photo 19: Group photo of the Fithian illite

field trip (photo courtesy of Steve

Guggenheim).

Photo 20: Group photo of the Starved Rock

field trip (photo courtesy of Steve Guggenheim).

By Steve Guggenheim

January / 2014

UNITED KINGDOM

CLAY MINERALS GROUP OF THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY (GB and

Ireland)

1. Committee:

Chairman: John Adams ([email protected])

Vice Chairman: Chris Greenwell ([email protected]) Secretary; Simon Kemp ([email protected])

Treasurer: David Wray ([email protected])

Board Members: Jenny Huggett Chris Breen

Frances Clegg

Steve Hillier

Chris Jeans

Caroline Kirk

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the Prescott Medal by Soil Science Australia. Jock also presented The Keith Norrish Lecture. Jock entitled the lecture “Scale in soil mineralogy: small is beautiful and variety is the spice

of life, but nothing is more certain than change”. Will Gates (ACMS President) has received

the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award from the Clay Minerals Society of America.

Further details of the Australian Clay Minerals Society including current office bearers, reports from past Conferences and details of the Society’s activities can be found on the

ACMS website: http://www.clays.org.au.

By Peter Self

March / 2014

BRAZIL

BRAZILIAN CLAY GROUP

The Brazilian Clay Group (GBA), a branch of the Brazilian Geochemical Society (SBGq),

was very busy in 2013 organizing the XV International Clay Conference (XV ICC) in Rio de Janeiro from 7-11th July 2013.

The honorary presidents were Prof. Dr. Milton L. Laquitinie Formoso and Prof. Dr. Pérsio de Souza Santos (in memoriam). The general chair was Dr. Sylvia Maria Couto Anjos with the

help of Dr. Reiner Neumann (secretary general) and Dr. Camila Wense Dias dos Anjos

(Second Secretary), who also coordinated the short courses. The treasurer was Dr. Edla Maria Bezerra Lima. The chair of Scientific Committee and of the program was Dr. Daisy Barbosa

Alves. Dr. Luiz Carlos Bertolino and Dr. Nilo Matsuda organized the field trips.

The XV ICC has received 154 delegates and 61 students from several countries, such as:

Saudi Arabia, Canada, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Colombia,

Australia, Norway, Austria, Latvia, China, Mozambique, Slovakia, Germany, Japan, Russia,

Argentina, Switzerland, Uruguay, Italy, Turkey, United States of America, Estonia, Belgium,

Denmark, South Africa, Czech Republic and, of course, Brazil. They gathered at the Centro

de Ciências Matemáticas e da Natureza located in the Campus of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Rio de Janeiro.

More than 400 papers were presented as oral or poster presentation, in 8 symposia or 11 technical sessions. The abstracts can be searched and downloaded from

http://15icc.org/abstracts/abstracts.html , until October.

The opening ceremony was held at the historical Music Hall in downtown Rio de Janeiro, and

included an invited lecture on ‘Geotouristic context of the City of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding mountains and plains’ given by senior exploration geologist and consultant Dr.

Pedro V. Zalán (ZAG Consultancy, Brazil)..

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Four Plenary Lectures was selected:

‘The First X-ray Diffraction Results from the Mars Science Laboratory: Clay Minerals,

Amorphous Materials, Sulfates’ by Prof. David L. Bish (University of Indiana, USA).

‘Functional Hybrid Clay Mineral Films’ by Prof. Robert A. Schoonheydt (Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KULeuven, Belgium).

‘Structure Determination of Defective Lamellar Compounds: Insights on Mineral Reactions and Material Properties’ by Dr. Bruno Lanson (University of Grenoble, France).

‘Complex Physics of Clays’ by Prof. Jon Otto Fossum (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and PUC-Rio, Brazil).

The second edition of the AIPEA School for Young Scientists (ASYS) (‘Magnesian clays:

Characterization, Origin and Applications’, coordinated by Dr. Manuel Pozo) had attracted

many attendants.

Two short courses were offered:

The chemistry of clay-polymer reactions by Dr. Benny K.G. Theng

Mössbauer spectroscopy of clays, clay minerals and archaeological ceramics by Dr. Enver

Murad and Dr. José Domingos Fabris.

Three field trips in areas surrounding Rio de Janeiro took place:

Pre-meeting field trip on ‘Geology of Rio de Janeiro state’; and

Post-meeting field trips on: ‘Microbialites in lagoonal system’ and ‘Charles Darwin’s ways

(Niteroi area)’ respectively.

The XV ICC marked 50th Anniversary of AIPEA, created in 1963. AIPEA gave Prizes or

Grants to: Prof. Robert A. Schoonheydt (AIPEA Medal); Ana Clecia Santos Alcântara (Bradley Award); Robert Koch, Eliana Satiko Mano, Sirle Liivamagi, Syafina Binti Mohol

Ghazi, Gabriella Fazio, Aleksandra Deregowska (Best Oral or Poster Student Presentations);

Dayse Mirella Oliveira Timóteo, Gabriel G. Machado Álvarez, and Valentin Robin (Student Travel Fund).

AISA gave the Novelli Prize to Dr. Marek Szczerba. The winner of the Clays and Arts

exposition of XV ICC was Ailton Luis da Silva de Souza (PETROBRAS Research Center).

We invite everybody to share good memories and many photos of the event by checking the

XV ICC website at http://www.15icc.org/pictures. They will be available until October, 2014.

The GBA thanks all participants for their contributions and the sponsors Petrobras

(Diamond), Halliburton, Schlumberger, and Geohub, and exhibitors Dairix, Bruker and Zeiss

for such a memorable conference.

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Volume 16, Carbon stabilization by clays in the environment: Process and characterization methods, CMS Workshop Lectures, $30 (David A. Laird and J. Cervini-Silva, eds.), 135

pp.

Volume 15, Clay-based Polymer Nano-composites, CMS Workshop Lectures, $30 (Kathleen A. Carrado and Faiza Bergaya, eds.), 278 pp.

Volume 14, Methods for Study of Microbe-Mineral Interactions (2006), CMS Workshop Lectures, $30 (Patricia A. Maurice and Leslie A. Warren, eds.), 166 pp.

Volume 13, The Application of Vibrational Spectroscopy to Clay Minerals and Layered Double Hydroxides (2005), CMS Workshop Lectures, $26 (J. T. Kloprogge, ed.), 285 pp.

Volume 12, Molecular Modelling of Clays and Mineral Surfaces (2003), CMS Workshop Lectures, $26 (J. D. Kubicki and W. F. Bleam, eds.), 229 pp.

Volume 11, Teaching Clay Science (2002) CMS Workshop Lectures, $26.00 (A. Rule and S. Guggenheim, eds.), 223 pp.

The Clay Minerals Society publishes a Clay Glossary, and this is located on the CMS website.

The 51st Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society will be held 17-21 May 2014 in

College Station, TX at Texas A & M University. See the CMS website at: http://www.clays.org/

Photo 17: Jackson Awardee George E. Christidis (photo courtesy of Steve

Guggenheim).

Photo 18: Bailey Awardee Stephen

Guggenheim (photo courtesy of Steve Guggenheim).

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was presented by Andrey G. Kalinichev, Professor, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, and entitled: “Tackling the nanoscale structural and compositional diversity of clay-water interfaces in

molecular simulations: Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities”. The Pioneer in Clay

Science Award was presented to Dr. Thomas J. Pinnavaia, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, who gave a lecture entitled “Silicate intercalation chemistry: A forty year

odyssey”.

There were a total of 180 oral presentations, 36 posters, and 4 award/lecture presentations,

(total = 220). The oral sessions were divided into fifteen symposia:

General Session - Organizers: M. F. Aldersley, D.L. Bish, F.J. Huertas, and J. Madejová; 27

Industrial and Specialty Clay Minerals - Organizers: M. Herpfer, W. F. Moll, and H. H. Murray; 12

Ferrihydrite and Schwertmannite - Organizers: R. Fitzpatrick and H. Xu; 7

Clay Barrier Technologies for Landfills and Mining - Organizers: W. Gates and W. Likos;

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Iron Redox Processes - Organizer: M. McGuire and A. Fitch; 11

Some Intellectual Genealogies: Honoring Those Who Came Before Us - Organizer: D. Moore; 14

Illite: The big picture - Organizer: G. Grathoff and J. Środoń; 10

Clays and Isotopes - Organizer: F. Longstaffe; 9

CO2 Sequestration - Organizers: A. Busch and E. Ilton; 11

Molecular Studies of Clay Minerals and Related Structures - Organizers: R. Cygan, J.

Greathouse; 18

Structural characterization of lamellar compounds and their nanocomposites - Organizers:

G. J. Beall, B. Lanson, and D. M. McCarty; 14

Clay Minerals in Petroleum Reservoirs and Hydraulic Fracturing - Organizers: S. P. Altaner, S. K. Butler, and J. E. Crockett; 7

Modified Clays for Environmental Applications - Organizer: Y. Mishael and H. He; 9

Alteration and Cation Exchange Processes in Clays, Soils, and Engineered Clay Barriers

for Radioactive Waste Disposal - Organizers: R. Dohrmann and P. Sellin; 15

Evolving Applications of Natural Molecular-sieve Zeolites - Organizers: S.M. Kuznicki, T.

Kuznicki, and A. Zeko; 7

The pre-meeting field trip was to Starved Rock, Buffalo Rock, and Matthiessen State Parks

and the post-meeting trip was to the Morrow Plots, Urbana Moraine and the Fithian illite locality. The pre-meeting trip examined the anticlinal structure underlying Matthiessen and

the beautiful water-worn river gorges formed at the end of the last ice age.

The latest CMS Workshop volumes are available for purchase (member prices are discounted

from the listed price, list price shown). Order forms and other information may be obtained at

http://cms.clays.org/publications.html Recent Workshop volumes are:

Volume 17, Clays of Yellowstone National Park, CMS Workshop Lectures, $30 (Paul

Schroeder, ed.), 94 p.

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Photo 1: Dr. Sylvia Maria Couto dos Anjos

welcomes the participants of XV ICC at the

Opening Ceremony (photo courtesy of XV ICC).

Photo 2: Dr. Andre Mexias hands over a

Commemorative Plate to the honorary president of XV ICC Prof. Dr. Milton Luiz Laquitinie

Formoso at the Opening Ceremony (photo

courtesy of XV ICC).

Photo 3: Participants and lecturers of the ASYS 2013 on `Magnesian clays: Characterization,

Origin and Applications’ (photo courtesy of XV

ICC).

By Daisy Barbosa Alves

February / 2014

CHINA

CHINESE CLAY MINERALS GROUP


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CROATIA

CROATIAN CLAY GROUP

The Croatian Clay Group was not adequately active in 2013. The impact of the financial crisis is visible in reduced funding for science and education that indirectly affected the activity of

our members. There were only two meetings with lectures.

At the beginning of the year 2013 new president and secretary were elected, as follows:

President: Assoc. Prof. Marta Mileusnić, PhD Secretary: Anita Grizelj, PhD

Plans for 2014:

Planned lectures: (1) Nikolina Ilijanić: Clay minerals in the lake sediments of eastern

Adriatic coast as indicators of environmental change during the late Pleistocene and Holocene (February); (2) Marta Mileusnić: Archaeometry of ceramics (April); (3) Goran

Durn: Pseudogley developed on loess (September); (4) Mihovil Brlek: Clay minerals

associated with unconformities in carbonates (October); (5) Biljana Kovačević Zelić i Želimir Veinović: Application of clays in geotechnics and environmental engineering

(November).

The Croatian clay group website update and improvement.

Participation at conferences related to clays. Especially at 7th Mid European Clay

Conference – MECC'14 (three of our members are in scientific board).

Revision of membership.

Devise a way of Croatian Clay Group participation at Croatian Geological Congress in 2015 by organising (1) special section or subsections within other sections about clays and

clay minerals, and (2) congress excursion related to clays.

By Marta Mileusnić and Anita Grizelj

February / 2014

CZECH REPUBLIC

CZECH NATIONAL CLAY GROUP

The Czech National Clay Group (CNCG) published three numbers (50–52) of the "Informátor" bulletin in Czech language with information about clay science in the Czech

Republic. One article contribution in Informátor was reviewed. ISSN of printed version is

1802-2480; ISSN of internet pdf version is 1802-2499.

Informátor 50 published reviewed article: “Way to microworld” by Vojtěch Kapsa and

Lubomír Skála with following abstract: “In this paper, differences in understanding physical reality in classical and quantum physics are discussed. Classical physics, as a result of our

effort to describe the world around us, operates with intuitive concepts related to our everyday

experience. It assumes that it is possible in reality to approach arbitrarily close to simple

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Maksym Loginov, PhD

[email protected]

Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry named after F.

Ovcharenko NAS of Ukraine, 42, Vernadskii Prosp., Kyiv, 03142 Ukraine

Ljudmila Nadel, PhD

[email protected]

Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry named after F.

Ovcharenko NAS of Ukraine, 42, Vernadskii Prosp., Kyiv, 03142 Ukraine

Volodymyr Savenko, Ph.D.

Student

[email protected]

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

Faculty of Physics, (2, Prosp. Academician

Glushkov, Kyiv 03127, Ukraine)

Galyna Sokol, Ph.D. Student

[email protected]

Khmelnitsky National University, Ukraine, Institute

of Technology, Design and Service, Department of

Chemistry, Instytutska st. 11, Khmelnitsky, 29016, Ukraine, Khmelnitsky National University,Tel:

+380 988520305

Oleg Yaroshchuk, PhD [email protected]

Institute of Physics, NASU, Prospekt Nauky 46, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine

For further information, please contact:

Prof. Nikolai Lebovka

Head of Department Physical Chemistry of Disperse Mineral

Institute of BioColloid Chemistry

Kiev, Ukraine [email protected]

https://sites.google.com/site/nlebovka/

By Nikolai Lebovka

March / 2014

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY (NORTH AMERICA) - CMS

The Clay Minerals Society’s (CMS) 50th Annual Meeting was held in Urban-Champaign, Illinois from 6-10 October 2013. The theme of the meeting was appropriately called “50th

Anniversary of The Clay Minerals Society”. The general chair of the meeting was Joseph

Stucki, with Stephen Altaner, Field Trips Chairman and Stephen Guggenheim, Program Chairman. Dr. Stephen Guggenheim, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, received the

highest award of The CMS, the Marilyn and Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award. His lecture was entitled “New X-ray environmental instrumentation for studying

solids in solid-liquid-gas systems under confining pressures at elevated temperatures”, with

A.F. Koster van Groos. George E. Christidis, Professor, Technical University of Crete, received the Marion L. And Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Science Award and

presented a lecture entitled “Smectite heterogeneity in bentonites: The key to interpret the

unique physical and chemical properties of these materials”. The George W. Brindley Lecture

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Loginov M. et al. (2013), Utilisation de nanotubes de carbone et d'argile minerale synthetique pour la purification d'eaux contaminees (Patent of France, N2.987.357).

The following institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine were involved into the studies: Institute of BioColloid Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Instutite of

Macromolecular Chemistry, Kiev National University of Technology & Design, Institute for Scintillation Materials of STC “Institute for Single Crystals”. The courses directly related

with colloids and clay science are also presented in many Ukrainian universities, e.g. “Surface

phenomena and disperse systems”, “Solid state chemistry”, and (Khmelnitsky National University), “Physical and colloidal chemistry” (Lviv National Medical University named

Daniel Galician), “Surface phenomena” (Kherson State Technical University), “Physical and

Colloid Chemistry” Lviv Polytechnica etc.

Photo 16: Kh. Ganzyuk (the second from the left) has participated in the International

Sustainable World Energy Engineering

Environment Project Olympiad, Houston,

Texas, USA, May 8-13, 2013 She has

obtained the silver Medal for the presented

project “Universal sorbent on the basis of natural mineral saponite” (Photo courtesy of

Nikolai Lebovka).

Personal contacts:

Leonid Bulavin, Prof.

[email protected]

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

Faculty of Physics, (2, Prosp. Academician

Glushkov, Kyiv 03127, Ukraine)

Alla Ganzyuk, Ph.D., Ass. Prof. [email protected]

Khmelnitsky National University, Ukraine, Institute of Technology, Design and Service, Department of

Chemical Technology, Instytutska st. 11,

Khmelnitsky, 29016, Ukraine, Khmelnitsky National University, Tel:+380 979457367

Svitlana Karvan, Prof.

[email protected]

Khmelnitsky National University, Ukraine, Institute

of Technology, Design and Service, Department of Chemistry, Instytutska st. 11, Khmelnitsky, 29016,

Ukraine, Khmelnitsky National University, Tel:

+380 679270648

Longin Lisetski, Prof.

[email protected]

Institute for Scintillation Materials of STC “Institute

for Single Crystals”, NAS of Ukraine, 60 Lenin

Ave., 61001 Kharkiv, Ukraine

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idealizations like the perfect isolation of the system from its surrounding, in principal arbitrary accuracy and non-interactivity of measurement etc. Contrary to it, quantum

mechanics, as a result of our ambition to understand the microworld, describes our

experimental possibilities more realistically: it is impossible to isolate microsystems perfectly; measurement itself influences the measured system etc. For these reasons, quantum

mechanics must use the apparatus of mathematical statistics and its the well-known paradoxes

are only consequence of our limited experience with consistent statistical description of the world around us.”

Informátor 51 published article: “Rokytka, river of change” by Martin Šťastný and Pavel Hájek with the abstract: “Rokytka, although the length of the flow of only 36 km, is a very

interesting river that flows through the beautiful and pure countryside with nature reserves

and the highly polluted industrial area once Vysočany. In the vicinity of the river there are many interesting places, both in historical and in terms of science. Mentions the various

buildings in the vicinity and is given the results of mineralogical and geochemical studies of

sediments of the little river and its tributaries.”

We published remembrance of George W. Brindley from J. Konta in this number.

Informátor 52 reported conferences in the year 2013 and announced upcoming events.

We did not organized seminars in 2013.

Contemporary board of CNCG:

Chairman: M. Pospíšil Vice-chairman: M. Šťastný

Treasurer: Petr Kovář

Members: S. Jarková, K. Melka, M. Holý, P. Praus and D. Koloušek (a representative of zeolite subgroup).

Correspondence address:

RNDr. Miroslav Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

Department of Chemical Physics and Optics Ke Karlovu 3

12116 Prague 2

Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected]

For other information, we recommend you to visit our webpage.

www.czechclaygroup.cz

By Miroslav Pospíšil

March /2014

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NETHERLANDS

DUTCH CLAY GROUP


FRANCE

FRENCH CLAY GROUP

The 2013 activity of the French Clay Group (GFA) was mainly centered on the 11th Annual Symposium, which was held in Ivry sur Seine (near Paris), from April 9th to 11th. This

Symposium was attended by about sixty participants.

Four plenary lectures were presented (in French)?

Clays in the origin of life scenarios by Jean-François Lambert, Thomas Georgelin and Maguy Jaber

Mineral synthesis: the industrial asset for future centuries? by François Martin and

collaborators

Hybrid DLH: from colloidal state to functionalized solids by Didier Tichit

Organizational and dynamic properties of the interlayer water in smectites by Eric Ferrage

Three students were rewarded for their research work, presented at this conference:

Angela Dumas: Experimental approach to increasing the quality and/or productivity of

synthetic talc. Imerys Ceramics funded award.

Anne-Laure Fauchille: Role of microstructure in the desiccation cracking of the Tournemire argillite. GFA award.

Géraldine Layrac: Colloidal nanoparticles HDL: Direct synthesis by soft chemistry. GFA incentive reward.

Photo 4: The winners with their

diploma and the jury consisting of the invited speakers (photo

courtesy of Jean-Louis Robert).

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spontaneous ionization of PTZ are in agreement with the data of wide angle X-ray diffraction analyses. The observed differences in formation of charge separated states in PTZ–laponite

mixtures, prepared using different methods, reflect the effects of confinement on the structure

and mobility of adsorbed and intercalated PTZ species

7. Hybrid liquid crystalline composites doped by carbon nanotubes and organomodified

montmorillonite (L. Lisetski) The studies on hybrid composites containing nematic liquid crystals carbon nanotubes and

montmorillonite were continued. Comparative studies of different liquid crystal dispersions of

rod-like carbon nanotubes (CNT) and plate-like exfoliated particles of organo-modified Laponite and montmorillonite (MMT) clays, were carried out.

Representative publications and participation at the conferences:

Articles:

Loginov, M. et al. (2013), 'Electro-dewatering of drilling sludge with liming and electrode heating', Separation and Purification Technology 104, 89-99.

Loginov, M. et al. E. (2013), 'Determination of filtration properties of mineral suspensions

from analytical centrifugation data', Filtration 13(1), 58-64.

Savenko, V.; Bulavin, L. et al. (2013), 'Sedimentation stability and aging of aqueous

dispersions of Laponite in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide', Phys. Rev E

88, 052301 (arXiv:1305.6629).

Shaydyuk, E. et al. (2013), 'The photo-activity in phenothiazine-Laponite mixtures', Journal of Molecular Structure 1056-1057, 1-6.

Tomylko, S.; Yaroshchuk, O. Peculiarities of Liquid Crystal-Carbon Nanotube Dispersions

Doped with a Small Amount of Nanoparticles of Synthetic Clay, et al. in Fesenko, O.; Yatsenko, L. & Brodin, M., ed., (2013), Nanomaterials Imaging Techniques, Surface

Studies, and Applications, Springer-Verlag, New York Inc.

Conferences:

Sokol G.M., Ganzyuk A.Y. et al. The new modified sorbent for wastewater treatment //

Abstracts of the XLVІ Session of the Students Scientific Circles, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, 9-10 May, 2013. – P. 54 –55. ; Sokol G.M.,

Ganzyuk A.Y., Kamenskyh D.S. Saponite is an environmentally friendly universal sorbent

// Abstracts of the Ninth International Scientific Congress “A secure world- understanding-trust-responsibility” organized by Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, Poznan, Poland, 4-7

July, 2013 ; Ganzyuk A.Y., Sokol G.M. Universal sorbent on the basis of natural mineral

saponite // Abstracts of the V Ukrainian-Рolish scientific dialogues, Jaremche, Ukraine, 16-19 October, 2013. – P. 118 – 120.

Loginov, M. et al.; (2013), Filtration/consolidation in analytical photo-centrifuge: A simple method for quantitative evaluation of filterability, in 'FILTECH 2013, Wiesbaden,

Germany'.

Patents:

Lisetski, L. et al., (2013), 'Liquid crystalline composite and method for its

preparation'(Patent of Ukraine, N 102723).

Karvan S.A. et al. (2013), 'Paste based on natural mineral sorbents for cleaning of

contaminated surfaces'.(Patent of Ukraine N79412, МПК (2006.01) С11D 3).

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of 10-40 m. The capacity of the most explored deposits of Tashkiv and Varvariv Saponite is about 60 million tons. The results of integrated research of natural and modified forms of

Saponite showed that activation and modification of their surface can be used for changing

the nature and concentration of superficial active centers. It provides possibility of creating attractive sorbents, catalysts, transmitters and fillers with the predictable properties. It was

demonstrated that Saponite and Saponite-based composite materials can be effectively used

for water treatment processes.

4. Hybrid Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube − Laponite Sorbent for Removal of Methylene

Blue From Aqueous Solutions (M. Loginov) The work studies the adsorption of methylene blue dye by novel hybrid sorbent consisting of

Laponite and multiwalled carbon nanotubes. The sorbent was obtained by sonication of

aqueous suspensions of nanotubes at different concentrations of Laponite. The sonication resulted in formation of hybrid particles with a core-shell structure. The size and the shape of

hybrid particles were determined by nanotubes, while their adsorption properties were

determined by Laponite particles attached to the surface of nanotubes. The Laponite content in hybrid particles was corresponding to the Laponite to nanotubes ratio in the initial

suspension XL = 0 – 1. The adsorbing capacity of the sorbent was much higher as compared

to the adsorbing capacity of pure nanotubes, and it was directly proportional to the Laponite content in hybrid particles. This sorbent may be used either as a purifying additive or as a

filtering layer if it is deposited on the surface of a supporting membrane. Due to relatively

large size of hybrid particles, they may be easily separated from the purified solution by filtration or centrifugation.

5. Peculiarities of Liquid Crystal- Carbon Nanotube Dispersions Doped with a Minute

Amount of Nanoparticles of Synthetic Clay (O. Yaroshchuk)

It was shown that adding of a small amount (0.1 wt. %) of organomodified laponite (LapO)

nanoplatelets resulted in drastic changes in dielectric and electro-optical characteristics of the suspensions of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in nematic liquid crystal 5CB. Addition of LapO

leads to the absence of classical percolation of conductivity and dielectric constant of 5CB-

CNTs composites, as well as reduction of Frederiks threshold and significant growth of the

contrast ratio of the 5CB-CNTs samples.

6. The photo-activity in phenothiazine-Laponite mixtures (E. Shaydyuk) The reactivity of phenothiazine (PTZ) in PTZ–laponite mixtures, prepared by three different

methods, was investigated using diffuse reflectance UV–visible absorption spectroscopy

(DRUVv) at room temperature, T = 293 K. It was shown that formation of different charge separated states (CSS), depending on procedure of mixture preparation, could be observed in

PTZ–laponite mixtures. PTZ_+ radical cations, adsorbed on the external surface of laponite, and PTZ2+ di-cations, intercalated inside the interlayer space, occurred in PTZ–laponite

mixtures, based on laponite dehydrated under argon. In PTZ–laponite mixtures, based on

hydrated laponite (dry-air state), the PTZ-species could be adsorbed only on the external surface of laponite in the form of PTZ_+ radical cations. It was also shown that if hydrated

laponite powder is used, PTZ can penetrate with the help of a swelling agent (acetone) into

the interlayer space and can be stabilized as a di-cation. The proposed schemes of

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During the traditional banquet, Jean-Louis Robert, President of GFA paid tribute to Faiza Bergaya, past-President and Honorary Member of GFA, who ended late 2013 her five year

period of Emeritus at CNRS, for her contribution to clay science.

XVth ICC, Rio de Janeiro, July 2013

GFA was represented by about thirty members, and two of them, Eric Ferrage and Bruno

Lanson acted as convenors of Symposium 3: Structural Characterization of Lamellar Compounds.

GFA has granted aid to Baptiste Dazas, PhD Student (Grenoble), to present its work at this

Congress.

Quadriennal Congress “Materials”

The year 2013 was also devoted to the preparation of the Quadrennial Congress "Materials 2014", to be held in Montpellier (France) in November 2014.

Other event

Finally, Jean-Louis Robert was invited, by the SEA (Spanish Clay Group) to give a

conference entitled “Crystal chemistry of phyllosilicates 2:1: state of the art” (in Spanish) at

the day (November 15th) of tribute to Jose Maria Serratosa, Honorary Member of GFA, who passed away late 2012.

By Jean-Louis Robert March / 2014

GERMANY-AUSTRIA-SWITZERLAND

GERMAN-AUSTRIAN-SWISS CLAY GROUP

2013 was for the clay community a year in particular marked by the XV International Clay

Conference in Rio de Janeiro and the 50th Clay Minerals Society meeting in Urbana-

Champaign. For the German-Austrian-Swiss Clay Group (DTTG - Deutsche Ton und

Tonmineral Gruppe) there was a special anniversary meeting from 25 till 26 Oct in Munich.

The meeting was designed to be on a smaller scale as an event celebrating the 40th anniversary

of the DTTG together with some of their founding members. The participants could follow also some talks focussing on the historical development of clay science in Germany and

especially in Munich and the development of DTTG. The Jasmund Award Winner of 2012,

Dr. Kaufhold (BGR Hannover), gave his prize lecture about the alteration of bentonites under repository conditions.

The international DTTG-Workshop “Qualitative and quantitative analysis of clays and clay

minerals” is organized every two years. The 5th workshop was organized by Drs. Katja

Emmerich and Annett Steudel from February 25th to Mar 1st 2013 in Karlsruhe (Germany). The participants came from DTTG-countries but also from Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Russia,

Sweden and UK. The next workshop is scheduled for 9 – 13 March 2015 again at the KIT in

Karlsruhe (contact: [email protected]).

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In 2012 the 6th Reynolds Cup took place. The winner (Michael Ploetze, ETH Zurich) is

organizing the 7th, which is now open (http://www.dttg.ethz.ch/home_en.html). The top three

contestants will be announced at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society in 2014.

Since 2008, the DTTG belongs officially to the member societies of the Mid-European Clay Conference groups (MECC) and holds their annual meetings within the MECC. The next

MECC in 2014 will be organized by the DTTG (Dr. Reinhard Kleeberg, TU Bergakademie

Freiberg) in Dresden. The registration is already open, program details can be found on http://www.mecc2014.de/. We invite the international clay community and look forward to

broad participation. The DTTG established a new award, the Gerhard-Lagaly-Award of the

DTTG which is awarded at the MECC to recognize internationally excellent scientists with outstanding original research in the field of clay mineralogy. The prize has the character of a

"midcareer award". The price is internationally open and not only for MECC members.

However, awardees can be nominated only by a member of a MECC clay group.

For further updated information: http://www.dttg.ethz.ch or contact Michael Ploetze, ETH

Zurich, e-mail: [email protected].

By Michael Ploetze

February / 2014

HUNGARY

HUNGARY CLAY GROUP

In 2013 the Clay Mineralogy Section affiliated to the Hungarian Geological Society (HGS) had only one meeting:

October 21. Session celebrating the 70th birthday of Géza Szendrei, past president of the

Hungarian Clay Group:

Dódony, I. (acting president): Greeting Géza Szendrei.

Viczián, I.: Activity of Géza Szendrei in clay science and in the clay group.

Viczián, I., Kovács, I., Udvardi, B.: Dickite in Middle Triassic carbonate rocks of the Central Transdanubian Unit (borehole Som-1).

Németh, T., Dódony, I., Pekker, P., Máthé, Z.: New results in the study of clay minerals of Boda Claystone Formation (Permian, Mecsek Mts.).

Cora, I.: Report on the conference of the Russian Clay Minerals Society held in St. Petersburg.

Földvári, M.: Study of octahedral cations in smectites by thermal analytical methods.

Kovács-Pálffy, P., Kónya, P., Selmeczi, I., Füri, J., Zelenka, T.: Miocene bentonite deposits near Budapest.

Kovács-Pálffy, P., Kónya, P., Kalmár, J., Földvári, M.: Sepiolite occurrences in the Preluca crystalline massif, Transylvania.

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TURKEY

TURKISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF CLAY SCIENCES


UKRAINE

UKRAINIAN CLAY GROUP

The activity of Ukrainian Clay Group was initiated in 1949 in the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine by academician Fedor

Ovcharenko, famous for his studies of disperse systems, clays, colloids and surface

phenomena. During the previous year (2013), the activity of the members of different groups of Ukraine includes:

1. Sedimentation stability and aging of aqueous dispersions of Laponite in the presence

of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (V. Savenko and L. Bulavin)

The work is focused on sedimentation stability and aging of the aqueous suspension of

Laponite in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The concentration of Laponite was fixed at the level of Cl = 2 %wt, which corresponds to the threshold between

equilibrium gel IG1 and repulsive gel IG2 phases. In the presence of CTAB, the Laponite

aqueous suspensions were unstable against sedimentation; they separated into upper and bottom layers (U- and B-layers, respectively). The dynamic light scattering technique

revealed that the addition of CTAB even in rather small concentration, Cs = 0.0164 %wt

(0.03CEC), induced noticeable changes in the aging dynamics of U-layer; it was explained by equilibration of CTAB molecules that were initially non-uniformly distributed between

different Laponite particles. Accelerated stability analysis by means of analytical

centrifugation with rotor speed 500 − 4000 rpm revealed three sedimentation regimes: continuous (I, Cs < 0.14 %wt), zone-like (II, 0.14 < Cs < 0.2 %wt) and gel-like (III, Cs > 0.2

%wt). It was demonstrated that B-layer was ”soft” in the zone-like regime.

2. Development and comparison of different methods for analytical determination of

cation exchange capacity of montmorillonite in bentonite and artificial mixtures (L.

Nadel) Two different methods (quantitative X-ray diffraction and fluorescent analysis) for analytical

determination of cation exchange capacity (CEC) of montmorillonite in bentonite and

artificial mixtures were compared. The impacts of impurities present in minerals and preliminary sonication on the estimated value of CEC were established. Also, the express

technique for CEC determination was proposed.

3. Properties of Saponite of the Khmelnitsky region in Ukraine (A. Ganzyuk and S.

Karvan) The studies were focused on applications of the natural sorbents in the water treatment

process, especially on kinetics of dye adsorption by the natural Saponite. Saponite deposits

are spread on the territory of Ukraine. The Saponite layer thickness in Khmelnitsky region is

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Photo 14: Participation of the representative

of TCG in the XV ICC in Rio de Janeiro,

July 2013, Brazil (Photo courtesy of Fakher Jamoussi).

Photo 15: Scientific excursion for the students of the University of Sfax in the

context of the valorization of Clays

organized by the TCG, March 2013. (Photo courtesy of Fakher Jamoussi).

For further information, please contact:

Prof. Fakher Jamoussi, TCG President

Centre National de Recherche en Sciences des Matériaux, Technopôle de Borj Cédria

BP 273, 8020, Soliman

Tunisia E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: www.tcg.tn

By Fakher Jamoussi

February / 2014

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Clay activity, however, extended also to several other organisations, mainly other sections of

the HGS and various branches of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The meetings were

held not only in Budapest but in other places too (in the following report these locations and organisations are specially indicated). The following meetings and presentations related to

clay problems were held:

January 18-19. Winter School on Mineral Sciences, “Minerals and Time”. (Balatonfüred,

Hungary, jointly organised by HGS and Subcommittee on Nano-Mineralogy of Hungarian

Academy of Sciences.):

Németh, T.: Effect of cyclic wetting and drying on expanding clay minerals.

Keresztúri, Á.: Water bound in minerals on Mars.

Keresztúri, Á.: Minerals and stratigraphy on Mars. The first results of Curiosity rover.

April 15. Memorial session to the honour of Ernő Mátyás (1935-2012), economic

geologist, associate professor of Miskolc University, expert of the clay and zeolite deposits of

Tokaj Mts. (Miskolc, organised by HGS, Miskolc University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

June 4. “Environmental biogeochemistry of copper” (Meeting organised by the Subcommittee on Environmental Geochemistry of Hungarian Academy of Sciences):

Németh, T. Sipos, P., Balázs, R.: Various ways of fixation of copper on soil components.

June 6–7. Conference on geological hazards (Visegrád, organised by HGS):

Udvardi, B., Kovács, I., Füri, J., Kónya, P., Földvári, M.: Landslides, studied by mineralogical and geochemical methods.

September 12–14. Annual Meeting on Petrology and Geochemistry. (Orfű, Mecsek Mts., jointly organised by HGS and Hungarian Academy of Sciences):

Máthé, Z., Varga, A.: Mineralogy of Boda Claystone Formation and outlines of its diagenesis.

Kovács, G., M. Tóth, T., Radovics, B. G.: Comparison of serpentinite occurrences at Gyód and Helesfa (Tisza Unit, S-Transdanubia)

Kovács, J., Jáger, V., Sajó, I.: Mineralogy and geochemistry of the red ochre at Lovas (Balaton Highlands)

Mészáros, E., Varga, A., Schubert, F., M. Tóth, T.: Petrology of Szalatnak Shale Formation

in the borehole Horváthertelend 1. (Mecsek Mts.)

Hajdu, I.: Mineralogy of nickel laterites at Kastoria, Greece.

Zelenka, T.: Microscopic study of clay mineral and glass containing rocks in incident light.

September 26-27. “Pedosphere – a special phase boundary of the planet Earth” (Symposium of the Geonomy and Planetology Subcommittee of Hungarian Academy of

Sciences):

Nemecz, E., Hartyányi, Zs.: Advanced mineralogical and geochemical study of soils.

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Madarász, B., Németh, T.: Clay minerals in Hungarian erubase soils.

Németh, T., Sipos, P., Balázs, R.: Transformation of clay minerals in typical soil

associations of Cserhát Mts.

Balázs, R., Németh, T.: Clay minerals in hydromorphic soils.

Szendrei, G.: Clay minerals in sodic soils.

Viczián, I.: Plio-Pleistocene red clays: mineralogical composition and genetic conditions.

Balogh, K., Kádár, I.: Transformation of soils induced by fertilisation and vegetation. A

study by formal K-Ar ages of clay minerals.

October 25. Symposium on the general and engineering geology of Avas Hill, a part of

the urban area of Miskolc (Debrecen, jointly organised by HGS and Hungarian Academy of

Sciences):

Kovács-Pálffy, P. and Kónya, P. Clay (bentonite) deposits of Avas and of Tardona Hills

(surrounding of Miskolc).

November 6. Conference on Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics (organised by

Budapest University of Technology and Economics):

Udvardi, B., Kovács, I. J., Szabó, Cs., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs.: Mineralogy of sediments

affected by land movements, in the vicinity of Kulcs (Central Hungary, Danube River

area).

November 12. “Environmental biogeochemistry of zinc” (Meeting organised by the

Subcommittee on Environmental Geochemistry of Hungarian Academy of Sciences):

Sipos, P., Németh, T., Balázs, R., Szalai Z.: Fixation and mobility of zinc in forest soils.

International activities:

In the 6th Mid-European Clay Conference held in September 4-9th, 2012, in Průhonice, Czech Republic, five (5) Hungarian participants presented 8 papers.

Ildikó Cora, member of the Hungarian Clay Group participated in the 2nd International Conference on Clays, Clay Minerals and Layered Materials - CMLM2013, held September

11-15th, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She presented the lecture:

Cora, I., Dódony, I., Pekker, P. 2013: Electron crystallographic study of clay minerals.

In the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, April 7-12th, 2013, Vienna, Austria, the following paper was presented:

Udvardi, B., Kovács, I., Viczián, I., Hámor-Vidó, M., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs.: The

correlation of attenuated total reflectance infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopic data with X-ray diffraction (XRD) parameters and its potential use for mineral identification and

quantification in drilling cores: examples from the Pannonian Basin, Hungary.

Events planned:

The 3rd International Conference on Competitive Materials and Technological Processes (IC-

CMTP3) will be held October 6-10th, 2014, in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary. The program

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TUNISIA

TUNISIAN CLAY GROUP

1. Committee:

The members of the Tunisian Clay Group (TCG) Executive Committee are:

President: Fakher Jamoussi

Vice-President: Nouri Hatira

Secretary General: Mondher Hachani Treasurer: Kamel Jeridi

Members: Mounir Medhioub

Hédi Ridha Chaftar Emna Fakhfakh

Randa Ben Abdallah

Béchir Moussi

2. Activity of the Tunisian Clay Group during 2013

The main activity of the Tunisian Clay Group (TCG) in 2013 was mainly the participation to

the XV International Clay Conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7 -11 July, 2013. The President of the TCG has represented the Tunisian Group and Tunisia at the conference.

The President of the TCG has requested membership of the TCG to the “Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Argiles” (AIPEA) and during this conference its petition was

accepted, so the Tunisian Clay Group became a new AIPEA affiliated Society (AIPEA

Memorandum n. 005/2013).

Photo 13: Plenary lecture during XV ICC in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Photo courtesy of

Fakher Jamoussi).

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Leguey, E. Galán, and J.L. Robert) presented the personal and scientific sides of José María Serratosa, highlighting the importance of his role in advancing clay research.

Other activities that took place during the meeting were:

The Annual General Meeting;

The lecture entitled “Crystalchemistry of 2:1 phyllosilicate: State of the art” by Dr. Jean-Luis Robert (CNRS, Paris);

Scientific session of posters; and

The announcement of the winners of the various awards offered by the Society:

-The Young Researchers' Award 2013 was given to Michelle Saltarelli. -The “Initiation to Clay Studies Award 2013" for a Master´s Thesis was presented to-

Cristina Ruiz García

-The prize for “First Scientific Photography Contest on Clays” was awarded to Dr. Santiago Leguey and Dr. Emilia García Romero.

Photo 11: Dr. Cuevas gives the prize “First Scientific Photography Contest on Clays” to

Dr. Emilia García-Romero (photo courtesy

of Blanca Bauluz Lázaro).

Photo 12: Dr. F.J. Huertas gives the prize “Initiation to Clay Studies Award 2013" for

her Master´s Thesis to Cristina Ruiz García

(photo courtesy of Blanca Bauluz Lázaro).

By Blanca Bauluz Lázaro February / 2014

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includes a section on Minerals for Environmental and Medical Application. Details can be found at http://www.ic-cmtp3.eu

New publication: The book of Földvári, M.: Handbook of thermogravimetric system of minerals and its use in

geological practice (2011) is available now online at the site

www.mfgi.hu/sites/default/files/files/Könyvtar/Alkalmi_teljes/Fodvari_egyben.pdf

By István Viczián

March / 2014

ISRAEL

ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR CLAY RESEARCH

The annual meeting of the Israel Society for Clay Research took place on the 22nd of December, 2013 at The Robert H. Smith faculty of agriculture, food and environment of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Rehovot. Our honored guest, Prof. Joseph W. Stucky

attended the meeting and gave a lecture "Redox reactivity of iron in smectite". About 30 people attended the meeting and enjoyed eight more talks that were given in two sessions by

members of the society and students.

On December 26th 2013 scholarship awarding ceremony in the name of the late Professor

Arieh Singer took place at The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environ of

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot. Seven M.Sc. students received the awards from the family on their research in the field of clays and soils.

We would like to thank Dr. Yael Mishael, the former president of the society, for arranging all the last annual meetings. Dr. Nurit Taitel-Goldman from the Open University of Israel

serves as the current president of Israel society of clay research.

Correspondence address of the President of the Israel Society for Clay Research is:

Dr. Nurit Taitel-Goldman

Department of Natural Sciences The Open University of Israel

The Dorothy de Rothschild Campus,

P.O. Box 808 Raanana 4353701, Israel Phone: 972-9-778-1779

Fax: 972-9-7780661 E-mail: [email protected]

Hoping we all have a fruitful clay year,

By Nurit Taitel-Goldman

January / 2014

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ITALY

ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF CLAYS

2013 Activities

During this year, all the Italian Clay Group (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio delle Argille -

AISA onlus) members were mainly involved in the presentation of research results at

international and national conferences and in the participation in research programs.

2013 opened with the great news for our Association: Dr. Saverio Fiore, former President of

AISA and the historical founder of this Association, was appointed President of the AIPEA. We all are very proud for his election.

Part of the AISA focused the international activities on the organization of the DUST 2014, the International Conference on Atmospheric Dust, which will take place in Castellaneta

Marina (Taranto, Italy) from 1 to 6th June 2014 under the coordination of Dr. Saverio Fiore.

The DUST 2014 Conference will be focused on the inorganic atmospheric particulate and

there will be a wide range of scientific contributions, such as the techniques used to

characterize these particulates, the impact on human beings and the environment, the importance of dust in geological times and, etc. Number of sessions: 34. Number of abstracts

received: 456.

Two prizes were assigned by the AISA onlus during this year.

The "Giovanni Novelli" prize, won by Marek Szczerba (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and handed over during the 15th International Clay Conference in Rio de Janeiro in

July.

The other prize has allowed a young researcher, Gioacchino Tempesta (University of Bari, Italy), to participate in the EMU School "Minerals at Nanoscale" (Granada, Spain, 3-6th

June 2013), an initiative of the European Mineralogical Union.

The general Assembly and the Clay Day 2013 were held in Pavia (28th February 2013). In

particular, the Clay Day was devoted to “Clays in innovative applications”. After various oral presentations, the participants had the opportunity to visit the diagnostic laboratories of the

Department of Science of the University of Pavia and to meet researchers working in various

areas of research.

The Association continues to sponsor all events (schools and conferences) in which its

members are involved. In particular, in 2013 AISA sponsored the 12 th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC2013), hosted in Padova (Italy), 19-21st September 2013.

At the end of 2013, the members of the AISA Council were renewed. Voting results have confirmed Dr. Aldo Mirabella as President, Dr. Maria Luigia Giannossi as Secretary and Prof.

Rocco Laviano as Treasurer. 5 Councillors were re-elected, and also, 3 new members are now

present.

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Correspondence address: Jana Madejová

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, SAS

Dúbravská cesta 9 SK-845 36 Bratislava

Slovakia


Photo 9: Dr. A. Biroň lecturing on the new

instruments on the Geological Institute SAS

in Banská Bystrica (photo courtesy of Jana Madejová).

Photo 10: Dr. A. Biroň lecturing on the new instruments on the Geological Institute SAS

in Banská Bystrica(photo courtesy of Jana

Madejová).

By Jana Madejová

March / 2014

SPAIN

SPANISH CLAY SOCIETY

The Spanish Clay Society (SEA) organized a scientific meeting in Madrid (Spain) in the

University Autonoma de Madrid on November 15th of 2013, with the participation of sixty researchers.

One on the main acts of the meeting was a tribute in honour of Prof. Dr. José María Serratosa, who passed away in November of 2012. Several speakers (E. Ruiz Hitzky, M.C. Hermosin, S.

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2) SCG co-organized lectures:

M. Osacký: Characterization of oil sands from Alberta province in Canada

M. Geršľa, E. Geršľová: Unconventional gas sources – shale-gas or bio-gas

K. Emmerich: Water binding in clays

K. Emmerich: The varieties of smectites

K. Emmerich: Comprehensive characterization of clays

3) J. Madejová, president of the SCG, introduced the history and current activities of the

Slovak Clay Group at the conference “Contribution of the Scientific Societies to the

Development of Science in Slovakia”.

4) The SCG members presented their scientific contributions on the:

XV International Clay Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;

2nd International Conference Clays, Clay Minerals and Layered Materials, St. Petersburg, Russia;

Nano-material: Applications and Properties, Alushta, Ukraine;

50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois;

6th International Conference Concrete and Concrete Structures 2013, Terchova, Slovakia;

and

International Conference Binders and Materials 2013, Brno, Czech Republic.

5) Two SCG members substantially contributed to the organization of the summer school

ADVANCEG2 “The impact of mining activities on the environment“ held in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia on July 1 – 12th, 2013. This activity was organized in the frame of Erasmus

Intensive Programs and several student members of SCG were among the participants.

6) A member’s meeting was held in Bratislava on December 12th 2013. The research activities

of the members since the last SCG meeting and plans for 2014 were discussed. In addition

Andrezza Almeida Azzi, a PhD. student from Brazil, presented very attractive lecture “Characterization of claystones used as raw ceramic materials – Sao Paolo State, Brazil”.

7) From July 2012 till October 2013 P. Komadel was serving as the President of the Clay Minerals Society.

SCG Council is formed by:

President Jana Madejová Vice-president Peter Komadel

Secretary Iveta Štyriaková

Members Adrián Biroň and Peter Uhlík

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At the end of the year the AISA members were 75, among whom 62 ordinary, 11 juniors, 2 Institutions. Also, 9 life members and 2 honorary members belong to the Association.

2. Work Plan for 2014

In 2014 the Association will be engaged in activities designed to involve all members, with

the aim to try to stem the number of resignations.

The new board will work for new social initiatives, such as the Clay Day 2014, which will

probably be organized on the occasion of the DUST 2014 Conference. We are confident to

gain an increase in the number of new subscription for the Association.

Some of the members are already working to organize the next meeting sponsored by AISA:

AMAM 2015, the 1st Conference on Applied Mineralogy & Advanced Materials. Information is available on the website www.amam2015.org

Photo 5: Dr. Saverio Fiore in his tenure

speech as AIPEA president, during the

AIPEA General Assembly at XV ICC in Rio de Janeiro (photo courtesy of Maria Luigia

Giannossi).

Photo 6: Dr. Saverio Fiore hand over the

Giovanni Novelli Prize to Dr. Marek Szczerba at the AIPEA General Assembly

during XV ICC in Rio de Janeiro (photo

courtesy of Maria Luigia Giannossi).

By Aldo Mirabella and Maria Luigia Giannossi February / 2014

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JAPAN

CLAY SCIENCE SOCIETY OF JAPAN

1. Committee

The following officers were elected for the fiscal year 2013 and 2014:

President: Dr. Hirohisa Yamada, National Institute for Materials Science Vice president Prof. K. Kuroda, Waseda University

Prof. M. Nanjo, Tohoku University

Secretary: Dr. T. Hatta, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences

Principal Editors: Dr. M. Suzuki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial

Science and Technology (Nendo Kagaku), Dr. M. Kawano, Kagoshima University (Clay Science)

2. The 57th annual meeting

The 57th Annual Meeting of the Clay Science Society of Japan (CSSJ) was held at Kochi City

Culture-Plaza Cul-port from 4 to 6th, September 2013. It was principally organized by Prof.

M. Nakagawa. A total of 52 papers including 37 posters were presented. The program also included plenary lecture by Prof. HWANG Jin-Yeon, Pusan University and invited lectures

for a symposium entitled “Clay sciences inspired by female researcher” (S. Jitsukawa, Loreal

Nihon and T. Sekine, Shiseido, H. Sato, Ehime University, N. Suzuki, Showa Pharmaceutical University, M. Jige, Osaka Ohtani University and A. Hayashi, Kobe Pharmaceutical

University).

3. Awards

The Society presented awards to the following members at the occasion of the annual

meeting:

Clay Science Society of Japan Award was given to T. Hatta, Japan International Research

Center for Agricultural Sciences.

Distinguished Achievement Award was given to T. Kawaji, The University of Shiga

Prefecture and N. Kohyama, Toyo University

Young Scientist Award was given to M. Minase, Hojun Co. Ltd. and Y. Watanabe,

Kanazawa Institute of Technology.

Best Technological Award was given to T. Katamoto and T. Suemasu, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

Best Paper Awards were given to C. Oda et al., Japan Atomic Energy Agency and to Y. Kuwahara et al., Kyushu University.

4. Publication

Clay Science Society of Japan publishes three issues of Nendo Kagaku (Journal of the Clay

Science Society of Japan in Japanese), and four issues of Clay Science every year. In the fiscal year 2012, vol. 52, no 1, 2 and 3 for Nendo Kagaku, and vol.17, no 1, 2, 3 and 4 for Clay

Science were published.

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B. Lanson. Crystal chemistry of defective lamellar structures: Implications for environmental and applied issues.

A. Derkowski, V. Drits, and D. McCarty. Kinetic and structural transformation of partially dehydroxylated dioctahedral 2:1 clay minerals.

S. Krivovichev. Structural complexity of layered materials.

J. Cuadros. Role of physical confinement in microbial-mineral interaction.

F. C. Hawthorne, Y. Uvarova and E. Sokolova. Sheet-silicate minerals: connectivity and

structural templating.

P. Komadel, M. Pentrák, J. Madejová, V. Hronský, P. Uhlík. Smectites in contact with acids.

Along with a highly topical scientific program, rich cultural program was offered to participants. It included several excursions through the city centre, museums and suburbs and

also several social events.

The Organizing committee would like to take this opportunity for expressing gratitude to the

listed Partners and Sponsors for help and financial support of these events: GeolinvestProekt,

Pole-Pole Company, Russian Minerals Society, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Foundation of the Earth Sciences Branch of Russian Academy of Science, E-

Globaledge Corporation, Rigaku Corporation, Technoinfo Ltd, JSC “Siberian Chemical

Combine”, “Bentonite” company.

Photo galleries from the CMLM2013 and Argilla Studium-2013 are available at

http://2013.ruclay.com/2013/11/acknowledgement/

By Victoria Krupskaya March / 2014

SLOVAKIA

SLOVAK CLAY GROUP

Main activities of the Slovak Clay Group (SCG) in 2013

1) The workshop “Clay minerals and selected industrial minerals in material research and industrial applications” was held in Congress Center Academia, Stará Lesná, Slovakia on

June 3 -5th 2013. The main idea was to get together clay scientists and potential industrial

partners and to discuss topics of the possible cooperation. The lectures given by the members of the SCG were devoted to the presentation of the individual clay groups, their research

activities and new scientific equipments available for industrial minerals and rocks analysis.

The workshop was financially supported by the “Council of the Scientific Societies at the Slovak Academy of Sciences”.

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Members of the Russian Clay Group also participated in the XV-ICC 2013, July 7-11th 2013, Brazil. Totally 5 oral and poster presentations have been presented. The talks have been done

by Profs. S. Lessovaya, Dr. V. Krupskaya, Dr. T. Zaitzeva.

1. The Second Russian Clay School – ARGILLA STUDIUM-2013.

Committee: Chairmen: Prof. V. Drits, Dr. V. Krupskaya; Vice-chairman: Dr. T. Zaitseva.

Program Committee:

B. Zviagina (Russia), B. Sakharov (Russia), M. Plötze (Switzerland), J. Madejova (Slovakia), A. Czímerová (Slovakia), J. Cuadros (UK), F. Hubert (France), and T. Kogure (Japan).

The program of the Second Russian Clay School “Argilla Studium-2013” was as follows:

B. Zviagina. Principles for phyllosilicates classification. Classification of micas.

B. Sakharov. Identification of interstratified clay minerals by X-ray diffraction.

J. Cuadros. XRD profile modelling as a tool for investigation of soil clay mineralogy.

T. Kogure. Electron microscopy for clay science.

J. Madejova. Infrared spectroscopy: Theory and clay minerals applications.

M. Plötze. Quantitative phase analysis of complex mineral assemblages. secrets to winning

the Reynolds Cup competition.

A. Czímerová. Traditional and novel methods for the characterization of the layer charge of clay minerals

F. Hubert. XRD profile modelling as a tool for investigation of soil clay mineralogy

The main purpose of the regular School meetings is the improvement of both methodological

and scientific basis of specialists, young researchers and students who are working within a field of clay science.

The oncoming Third Russian School by Clay Minerals “Argilla Studium-2014” is scheduled for autumn, 2014 (detailed information will be available in March on www.ruclay.com).

2. The 2nd International Conference on “Clays, Clay Minerals and Layered Materials -

CMLM2013”

185 delegates from more than 35 countries passed a registration for conference, more than

130 of them, including 55 young scientists, participated effectively in the meeting. Two best

young researchers were awarded for their presentations: Anastasia Chernyatieva (Russia) and Artur Kuligiewicz (Poland).

Plenary lectures presented during conference:

T. Kogure. Real structures of clay minerals revealed by HRTEM.

J. Wilson. Pedogenic clay minerals in soils: a broad overview.

D. McCarty. Structural composition relationships in illite-smectite and other clay minerals.

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For further updated information: http://www.cssj2.org/index_e.html or contact Tsutomu Sato, Hokkaido University, e-mail: [email protected] .

By Tsutomu Sato February / 2014

KOREA

KOREAN CLAY SCIENCE SOCIETY

1. Committee

Korean Clay Science Society (KSSC) was launched Sep. 2012, when the 2nd Asian Clay

Society meeting was held at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. The following officers were elected for the fiscal year 2012 and 2013.

President: Prof. J. H. Choy, Ewha Womans University Vice presidents: Prof. Byungsei. Jun, Kyungnam University]

Prof. Hyen Goo Cho, Gyengsang National University

Secretary: Prof. J. Kim, Yonsei University Board members: Prof. E. S. Kim, Kyonggi University

Prof. Hyoung-Jin Choi, Inha University

Dr. In Park, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) Prof. Hyun Jung, Dongguk University

Dr. J. Yoon Choi, Korea Conformity Laboratories (KCL)

Prof. Soon-Ho Kim, Kyungnam University Prof. Jae-Min Oh, Yonsei University

2. Annual Meetings

2nd Annual meeting

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the KSSC was held at Kyungnam University, Changwon in May

24-25, 2013. It was organized by KSSC committee and sponsored by Kyungnam University,

Kaolin Regional Innovation System Agency, CINBM, KICET, and Global B&M. Total 58 papers including 7 oral presentations and 51 posters were presented. The program included

keynote lectures by Prof. Makoto Ogawa, and 6 invited lectures.

3rd Annual meeting

The3rd Annual Meeting of the KSSC was held at Kyungnam University, Changwon in Dec. 4-5, 2013. It was organized by KSSC committee and sponsored by Kyungnam University

Kaolin Regional Innovation System Agency, CINBM, KICET. Total 41 papers including 10

oral presentations and 31 posters were presented. The program included keynote lectures by Prof. Ajayan Vinu and Prof. Jinwook Kim, and 7 invited lectures and 1 tutorial lecture. The

symposium was entitled, “Clay minerals; Intelligent Nano-Bio Materials”.

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3. Academic activities

Prof. J. H. Choy, president of KSSC, was inducted into Australian Institute for

Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), of The University of Queensland, Australia, as an Honorary Professor. He also got an appointment as a European Research Council (ERC)

consolidator grants evaluation committee member. He is currently an associate editor of

“Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” and “Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology”.

Photo 7: Participants of the 2nd

Annual meeting of Korea Clay

Science Society (photo courtesy of Jinwook Kim).

Photo 8: Participants of the 3rd

Annual meeting of Korea Clay

Science Society (photo courtesy of Jinwook Kim).

For further updated information see: http://www.korclay.org or contact Prof. Jinwook at Kim,

Yonsei University, e-mail: [email protected]

By Jinwook Kim February / 2014

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NORDIC COUNTRIES

NORDIC SOCIETY FOR CLAY RESEARCH


POLAND

POLISH CLAY GROUP


PORTUGAL

PORTUGUESE CLAY GROUP


ROMANIA

ROMANIAN GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS


RUSSIA

RUSSIAN CLAY GROUP

The Russian Clay Group (RCG), related to European Clay Group Association ECGA, was created at 1994. More than 15 years the Group operated due to the efforts of Dr. Tatiana

Alekseeva, who had been a permanent secretary of RCG. Now it has 63 members. Council of

Group was created at the Russian Clay Conference in 2011. At the last Conference

CMLM2013 the following council members were elected for the period from 2014 till 2018:

Honorary President: Prof. Victor Drits, Geological Institute RAS President: Dr. Victoria Krupskaya, Institute of Ore Geology,

Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry RAS

The RCG took part in the organization of two scientific events in 2013:

The 2nd Russian Clay School – ARGILLA STUDIUM-2013, St.-Petersburg (in Russian and English) - http://2013.ruclay.com/argilla-studium-2013/ ; and

The 2nd International Conference on “Clays, Clay Minerals and Layered Materials – CMLM2013”, St.-Petersburg (in English) - http://2013.ruclay.com/

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