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33
Citations
6205
World Ranking
8198
National Ranking
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Best Publications

  • QUANTITATIVE X-RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS OF CLAY-BEARING ROCKS FROM RANDOM PREPARATIONS

    Jan Środoń;Victor A. Drits;Douglas K. McCarty;Jean C.C. Hsieh

  • Structure of synthetic monoclinic Na-rich birnessite and hexagonal birnessite; I, Results from X-ray diffraction and selected-area electron diffraction

    Victor A. Drits;Ewen Silvester;Anatoli I. Gorshkov;Alain Manceau

  • XRD measurement of mean crystallite thickness of illite and illite/smectite; reappraisal of the Kubler index and the Scherrer equation

    Victor A. Drits;Jan Srodon;D. D. Eberl

  • Structure of synthetic monoclinic Na-rich birnessite and hexagonal birnessite: II. Results from chemical studies and EXAFS spectroscopy

    Ewen Silvester;Alain Manceau;Victor A. Drits

  • Structure of heavy metal sorbed birnessite. Part III: Results from powder and polarized extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy

    Alain Manceau;Bruno Lanson;Victor A. Drits

  • Structural mechanism of Co (super 2+) oxidation by the phyllomanganate buserite

    Alain Manceau;Victor A. Drits;Ewen Silvester;Celine Bartoli

  • Structure of H-exchanged hexagonal birnessite and its mechanism of formation from Na-rich monoclinic buserite at low pH.

    Bruno Lanson;Victor A. Drits;Victor A. Drits;Ewen Silvester;Ewen Silvester;Alain Manceau

  • Structural chemistry of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni in manganese hydrous oxides; Part II, information from EXAFS spectroscopy and electron and X-ray diffraction

    Alain Manceau;Anatolii I. Gorshkov;Victor A. Drits

  • Structure of synthetic K-rich birnessite obtained by high-temperature decomposition of KMnO4. I. two-layer polytype from 800 °C experiment

    Anne-Claire Gaillot;David Flot;Victor.A. Drits;Alain Manceau

  • New Insights on the Distribution of Interlayer Water in Bi-Hydrated Smectite from X-ray Diffraction Profile Modeling of 00l Reflections

    Eric Ferrage;Bruno Lanson;Natalie Malikova;Alain Plançon

  • Determination of illite-smectite structures using multispecimen X-ray diffraction profile fitting

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  • Structure of heavy-metal sorbed birnessite: Part 1. Results from X-ray diffraction

    Bruno Lanson;Victor A. Drits;Victor A. Drits;Anne-Claire Gaillot;Ewen Silvester;Ewen Silvester

  • Semiquantitative determination of trans-vacant and cis-vacant 2:1 layers in illites and illite-smectites by thermal analysis and X-ray diffraction

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  • INTERPRETATION OF INFRARED SPECTRA OF DIOCTAHEDRAL SMECTITES IN THE REGION OF OH-STRETCHING VIBRATIONS

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  • Structure of Birnessite Obtained from Decomposition of Permanganate under Soft Hydrothermal Conditions. 1. Chemical and Structural Evolution as a Function of Temperature

    Anne-Claire Gaillot;Bruno Lanson;Victor A. Drits

  • Illite-smectite structural changes during metamorphism in black Cambrian Alum shales from the Baltic area

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  • Determination of the content and distribution of fixed ammonium in illite-smectite by X-ray diffraction: Application to North Sea illite-smectite

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  • THE NATURE OF STRUCTURE-BONDED H2O IN ILLITE AND LEUCOPHYLLITE FROM DEHYDRATION AND DEHYDROXYLATION EXPERIMENTS

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  • CRYSTAL-CHEMICAL FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF OCTAHEDRAL CATIONS OVER TRANS- AND CIS-SITES IN DIOCTAHEDRAL 2:1 LAYER SILICATES

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  • REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE POUR L'ETUDE DES ARGILES (AIPEA) NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE FOR 2001: ORDER, DISORDER AND CRYSTALLINITY IN PHYLLOSILICATES AND THE USE OF THE ''CRYSTALLINITY INDEX''

    Stephen Guggenheim;Derek C. Bain;Faíza Bergaya;Maria F. Brigatti

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Lanson
Bruno Lanson Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Alain Manceau
Alain Manceau École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Toshihiro Kogure
Toshihiro Kogure University of Tokyo
Dennis D. Eberl
Dennis D. Eberl United States Geological Survey
Emilio Galán
Emilio Galán University of Seville
Hans J. Jakobsen
Hans J. Jakobsen Aarhus University
Joseph W. Stucki
Joseph W. Stucki University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan Środoń
Jan Środoń Polish Academy of Sciences
Will P. Gates
Will P. Gates Deakin University
Daniel Chateigner
Daniel Chateigner Université de Caen Normandie

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