MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

14:00 – 19:00     REGISTRATION

20:00     WELCOME PARTY

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

HALL 1

9:00 – 9:30     OPENING CEREMONY

9:30 – 10:00     COFFEE BREAK & REGISTRATION

HALL 1

Chairs: Etelka Tombácz and Juraj Bujdák

10:00 – 10:45     PLENARY LECTURE 1

Clay-based bionanocomposites

Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

10:45 – 11:00 PAUSE

HALL 1

 11:00 – 12:00 THEMATIC SESSION

“COLLOIDAL PROPERTIES AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY”

 Chairs: Etelka Tombácz  and  Juraj Bujdák

11:00 – 11:20

Detachment of colloids from bentonites in water

Stephan Kaufhold and Reiner Dohrmann

11:20 – 11:40

Intercalated montmorillonites by different aggregates of methylene blue

Zdenek Klika, Pavla Čapková, Petra Horáková, Marta Valášková and Miroslav Pospíšil

11:40 – 12:00

Latvian smectite clay and bentonite interaction with tetraoctyl-ammonium bromide

Adris Actiņš, Linda Supe and Inese Sarceviča

HALL 2

 11:00 – 12:00 THEMATIC SESSIONS

”CLAYS IN HUMAN HISTORY“ AND „CLAYS AND HEALTH“

Chairs: Esad Prohić and István Viczián

11:00 – 11:20

Mineralogical and petrographical analysis of Kalenderberg household ceramic from Devín Castle (Slovakia)

Miloš Gregor, Katarína Harmadyová and Radoslav Čambal

11:20 – 11:40

Thermal alteration of mineral phases in Bronze Age ceramics from Transylvania (Romania)

Corina Ionescu, Lucretia Ghergari, Volker Hoeck, Viorica Simon, Marius Horga

11:40 – 12:00

Clay-based formulations to be used in topical applications

Celso Gomes and Joao Baptista Perteira Silva.

12:00 – 14:00     LUNCH BREAK

HALL 1

 Chairs: Ewa M. Serwicka-Bahranowska and Ivan Sondi

 14:00 – 14:45     PLENARY LECTURE 2

Engineering properties of clays

Dobroslav Znidarčić

14:45 – 15:00     PAUSE

HALL 1

15:00 – 16:00     THEMATIC SESSION

“COLLOIDAL PROPERTIES AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY“

Chairs: Ewa M. Serwicka-Bahranowska and Ivan Sondi

15:00 – 15:20

Point of zero charge and surface acidity constants of Fe(OH)₂

Diana Lieber and Helge Stanjek

15:20 – 15:40

Clay mineral template-controlled formation of molecular assemblies of rhodamine 6G

Juraj Bujdák, Nobuo Iyi and Adriana Czímerová

15:40 – 16:00

TiO₂/delaminated-clay nanocomposites

Pilar Aranda, Elina Manova, Mª Angeles Martín-Luengo, Sadok Letaïef and Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

16:00 – 16:20      COFFEE BREAK

HALL 1

 16:20 – 17:00     THEMATIC SESSION

“COLLOIDAL PROPERTIES AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY“

Chairs: Jana Madejová and Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

16:20 – 16:40

Surface reactivity investigation of mechanochemically activated kaolinite

Veronika Vágvölgyi, János Kristóf, Erzsébet Horváth and Ray L. Frost

16:40 – 17:00

Comparing surface charge heterogeneity of 1:1 with 2:1 type clay particles in aqueous suspension

Etelka Tombácz and Márta Szekeres

17:00 – 17:30      PAUSE

HALL 2

 15:00 - 16:00 THEMATIC SESSIONS

"ENVIROMENTAL GEOTECHNICS"

"CLAYS AND PROTECTION OF ENVIROMENT"

 Chairs: Biljana Kovačević Zelić and Dobroslav Znidarčić

15:00 – 15:20

Engineering geological research of highly compacted bentonites in Slovakia

Renata Adamcova, Zuzana Haasova and Peter Maas

15:20 – 15:40

Behaviour of carboxylic acids on NH₄-smectites : pollution prediction in waste landfill

Mathieu Gautier, Fabrice Muller, Patric Albéric, Lydie Le Forestier, Jean-Michel Bény  and Patrick Baillif

15:40 – 16:00

Cement suspensions for slurry cut-off walls with ultra fine ground Na-bentonite from Lieskovec and Jelšový potok deposits

Ivan Janotka and Igor Galko

16:00 – 16:20      COFFEE BREAK

HALL 2

 16:20 - 17:20 THEMATIC SESSIONS

"CLAYS IN INDUSTRY"

 Chairs: Celso Gomes and Ivan Kraus

16:20 – 16:40

Mineralogical transformations during firing of some Plio-Quarternary clays from NE Slovenia

Meta Dobnikar, Michele Dondi, Breda Mirtič, Duška Rokavec and Chiara Zanelli

16:40 – 17:00

Smectites from Ziryanovskoe deposit (Kurgan Region, Russia). Relation between composition, structure and technological properties

Viktoriya Krupskaya, Leonid Voevodin, Georgij Piloyan and Maximilian Nikolskij

17:00 – 17:20

Fluidised bed technology for drying and milling of clay minerals

Gunther Fleck, Frank Pudel, Lothar Mörl, Janitza Rangelowa and Gerhard Krüger

17:20 – 17:30     PAUSE

HALL 1

Chairs: Jana Madejová and Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky 

17:30 – 18:15     PLENARY LECTURE 3

Layered minerals in catalysis

Krzysztof Bahranowski and Ewa M. Serwicka-Bahranowska

18:15 – 19:00     PLENARY LECTURE 4

Ceramic dish as a symbol of life and universe and the oldest European calendar

Aleksandar Durman 

20:00     MEETING OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN CLAY GROUPS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

HALL 1

 Chairs: Javier Cuadros and Helge Stanjek 

9:00 - 9:45     PLENARY LECTURE 5

Clay mineralogy, petrography and geochemistry of Late Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks from the Mecsek-Villány area (SW Hungary): implications for source-area weathering, provenance and diagenesis

Béla Raucsik, Andrea Raucsik-Varga, György Szakmány and Viktória Kovács-Kiss

9:45 – 10:30     PLENARY LECTURE 6

Mössbauer spectroscopy of geological materials

Enver Murad

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

HALL 1

 11:00 - 12:00 THEMATIC SESSION

"GEOLOGY OF CLAYS"

 Chairs: Javier Cuadros and Vladimir Bermanec

11:00 – 11:20

The structure and diagenetic transformation of illite/smectite from marls of the Polish Flysch Carpathians

Katarzyna Górniak

11:20 – 11:40

Clay minerals (I/S, kaolinite) in contact metamorphism related to Tertiary basalts intrusions in Lower Silesia (Poland)

Wojciech Szeliga

11:40 – 12:00

Geological prospecting of kaolin and kaolinite clays deposits on territory of the Western Carpathians (Slovakia)

Michal Majdán, Ivan Kraus and Igor Galko

HALL 2

 11:00 - 12:00 SYMPOSIUM HONOURING ENVER MURAD:

MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY IN CLAY SCIENCE

 Chairs: Eddy De Grave and Peter Komadel

11:00 – 11:20

A multispectral study of clay minerals: Mössbauer, reflectance, transmittance, and emission spectroscopy

Janice L. Bishop, Adrian J. Brown, Ed Cloutis, M. Darby Dyar, Takahiro Hiroi, Melissa D. Lane, Ralph E. Milliken, Enver Murad and John F. Mustard

11:20 – 11:40

A new approach to the interpretation of Fe²⁺ quadrupole doublets in Mössbauer spectra of dioctahedral trans-vacant micaceous minerals

Lidia G. Dainyak

11:40 – 12:00

Fe³⁺ intercalation into vermiculite or deposition of iron oxyhydroxides? A Mössbauer spectroscopic investigation

Anton Lerf, Friedrich E. Wagner, Juan Poyato, Verónica Ramírez -Valle and José L. Pérez-Rodríguez

12:00 – 14:00     LUNCH BREAK

HALL 1

Chairs: Czeslaw August and Derek C. Bain

 14:00 - 14:30 PLENARY LECTURE 7

Zeolite deposits in Croatia

Darko Tibljaš and Stjepan Šćavničar

14:30 – 14:45     PAUSE

HALL 1

14:45 - 16:05 THEMATIC SESSIONS

"GEOLOGY OF CLAYS"

"CLAYS IN SOILS AND WEATHERING, PALEOSOLS"

 Chairs: Czeslaw August and Derek C. Bain

14:45 – 15:05

Dating of fault clays of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Turkey

Halim Mutlu, Erhan Altunel and I. Tonguc Uysal

15:05 – 15:25

K-Ar dating of Cretaceous metamorphism recorded in the eastern part of Mt. Papuk, Slavonia, Croatia

Vanja Biševac, Dražen Balen, Kadosa Balogh, Darko Tibljaš

15:25 – 15:45

Development of a simple method for Ar/Ar dating of micrometer-sized minerals: a progress report

Kadosa Balogh, Péter Árkai, Katalin Judik, Tetsumaru Itaya, Hironobu Hyodo and István Balogh

15:45 – 16:05

The possibility of the isotopic dating stages of postsedimentary transformations of clayey terrigenous deposits in the different geodynamical situations

Yulia V. Kushcheva, Dennis I. Golovin and Margot I. Bujakaite

16:05 – 16:20      COFFEE BREAK

HALL 1

16:20 - 17:20 THEMATIC SESSION

"GEOLOGY OF CLAYS"

 Chairs: Goran Durn and Tamás G. Weiszburg

16:20 – 16:40

Altered tephra layers in the Upper Jurassic Lemeš deposits near Maovice (Dalmatia, Croatia): Clay mineralogy and basic soil mechanic properties

Branimir Šegvić, Aleksandar Toševski, Danijela Števanić, Vanja Biševac and Boško Lugović

16:40 – 17:00

Upper Cretaceous–Lower Tertiary clay mineral successions of Southern Haymana Region (Ankara, Turkey)

Emel Bayhan

17:00 – 17:20

Clay mineralogy of Tertiary sedimentary sequence from Gökçeada Island (Northeast Aegean Sea, Turkey)

Hasan Bayhan, Fatih Güleç, Emel Bayhan, Abidin Temel and Halime Hüryılmaz

17:20 – 17:30       PAUSE

HALL 2

 14:45 - 16:25 SYMPOSIUM HONOURING ENVER MURAD:

MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY IN CLAY SCIENCE

 Chairs: Janice L. Bishop and Helge Stanjek

14:45 – 15:05

Effects of in situ biostimulation on iron mineral speciation in a sub-surface soil

Joseph W. Stucki, Kangwon Lee, Bernard A. Goodman and Joel E. Kostka

15:05 – 15:25

Iron phases occurring in Fe-rich bentonite from Lieskovec, Slovakia

Peter Komadel and Joseph W. Stucki

15:25 – 15:45

Mineralogy, Mössbauer characteristics and isotope age of Middle Riphean glauconites(the Olenek Uplift, Northern Siberia)

Tatyana S. Zaitseva, Igor M. Gorokhov, Tatyana A. Ivanovskaya, Nikolai N. Melnikov and Oxana V. Yakovleva

15:45 – 16:05

Particularities of Mossbauer spectroscopy for the archaeological potsherds dating

Oleg B. Milder, Alex I. Pikulev, Vladimir A. Semionkin, Evgeny G. Novikov

16:05 – 16:25

Iron oxides on Mars: their characterization from MER Mössbauer spectra

Caroline Van Cromphaut, Valdirene G. de Resende, Eddy De Grave, Göstar Klingelhöfer, Antoon Van Alboom and Robert E. Vandenberghe

16:25 – 17:30       COFFEE BREAK - PAUSE

17:30 - 18:45 POSTER SECTION “A” – CONFERENCE HALL LOBBY

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

HALL 1

 Chairs: Joseph W. Stucki and Reiner Dohrmann 

9:00 - 9:45     PLENARY LECTURE 8

Clay minerals in the making

Javier Cuadros

9:45 – 10:30     PLENARY LECTURE 9

New insight into halloysite physico-chemical properties

Sabine Petit, Emmanuel Joussein and Olivier Grauby

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

HALL 1

 11:00 - 12:00 - THEMATIC SESSION

"PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF CLAYS"

 Chairs: Sabine Petit and Reiner Dohrmann

11:00 – 11:20

Fast determination of CEC by Cu-trien method, its limitation and use

Michaela Hruskova, Tomas Grygar and David Hradil

11:20 – 11:40

Total surface area, surface charge density, cation exchange capacity and water retention in smectites

Jan Środoń and Douglas K. McCarty

11:40 – 12:00

Crystal-chemical factors affecting the distribution of octahedral cations over cis- and trans-sites in dioctahedral smectites

Bella B. Zviagina

12:00 – 14:00     LUNCH BREAK

HALL 1

 Chairs: Franz Ottner and Jan Środoń

 14:00 - 14:30 PLENARY LECTURE 10

XRD texture measurements of oriented clay Aggregates – a quantification tool

Reiner Dohrmann, Katherina Rüping, Markus Kleber and Reinhold Jahn

14:30 – 14:45     PAUSE

HALL 1

 14:45 - 16:45 THEMATIC SESSIONS

"GEOLOGY OF CLAYS (AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS)"

"CLAYS IN SOILS AND WEATHERING, PALEOSOLS"

 Chairs: Franz Ottner and Jan Środoń

14:45 – 15:05

Mineralogy of glauconite-rich sand deposits in the Southern Slovakia

Peter Uhlík, Juraj Čihák, Ľubomír Tuček, Pavol Malachovský and Ján Derco

15:05 – 15:25

Two in one: two different glauconite series from the same rock, Sümeg Marl Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Bakony Mountains, Hungary

Erzsébet Tóth and Tamás G. Weiszburg

15:25 – 15:45

The TOT layer silicate of the lacustrine green clay, Rona limestone, Romania

Dana Pop, Erzsébet Tóth, Tamás G. Weiszburg, Emanoil Săsăran and Sándor Stichleutner

15:45 – 16:05     COFFEE BREAK

16:05 – 16:25

Mineralogy of fine-grained sediments related to karst phenomena in Villány Mts., SE Transdanubia, Hungary

István Viczián, József Dezső and Béla Raucsik

16:25 – 16:45

Maastrichtian calcisols from the Hateg basin, South Carpathians: mineralogical and stable isotopic investigations

Ana-Voica Bojar, Franz Ottner, Dan Grigorescu and Csiki Zoltan

HALL 1

 Chairs: Goran Durn and Darko Tibljaš

 18:45 – 19:00     CONGRESS CLOSING CEREMONY

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

POSTMEETING EXCURSION 1

Clay mineralogy of bauxites and paleosols formed during regional subaerial exposures of Adriatic Carbonate Platform

Leaders: Goran Durn & Franz Ottner

DEPARTURE TIME (IN FRONT OF THE “ADRIATIC” HOTEL): 08:00

APPROXIMATE TIME OF ARRIVAL TO OPATIJA: 20:00

POSTMEETING EXCURSION 2

Ceramic and brick clays deposits and excessive flysch erosion

Leaders: Radovan Avanić, Boris Kruk, Žejko Kastmüller & Marta Mileusnić

DEPARTURE TIME (IN FRONT OF THE “ADRIATIC” HOTEL): 07:00

APPROXIMATE TIME OF ARRIVAL TO OPATIJA: 20:00

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2006

POSTMEETING EXCURSION 3

Clay minerals and selected ecological aspects of soils on the island Veli Brijun, Croatia

Leaders: Franz Ottner, Tomislav Erstić, Monika Sieghardt & Marta Mileusnić

DEPARTURE TIME (IN FRONT OF THE “ADRIATIC” HOTEL): 07:00

APPROXIMATE TIME OF ARRIVAL TO OPATIJA: 20:00

A1

Mössbauer spectroscopy investigation of ground and acid treated vermiculite

Celia Maqueda, Agua Santas Romero, Esmeralda Morillo José L. Pérez-Rodríguez, Anton Lerf and Friedrich Ernst Wagner

A2

The influence of physical alteration on the Mössbauer and reflectance spectra of antigorite and applications to soil alteration processes on Mars

M. Darby Dyar, Janice L. Bishop, and Ahmed Drief

A3

Climato-environmental controls on clay mineralogy of the Hettangian–Bajocian successions of the Mecsek Mountains (Tisza Mega-unit, Hungary)

Béla Raucsik and Andrea Varga

A4

Clay mineralogy in northern Iraq during the Miocene: Paleoenvironmental indicators

Ali Al-Juboury

A5

Clay mineralogy and crystallochemistry of the Douro Carboniferous Basin (Early Stephanian C; NW Portugal)

Ary Pinto de Jesus and Fernando Rocha

A6

Mineralogical signatures of weathered Late Holocene ash layer from the island Mljet in Croatia

Boško Lugović, Marta Crnjaković and Vanja Biševac

A7

Mineralogy of a Carboniferous bentonite from the Sudetes (SW Poland), northern margin of the Bohemian Massif – preliminary data

Czeslaw August

A8

Clay minerals as indicators of thermal history of Palaeozoic rocks from Marija Gorica Hills, NW Croatia

Darko Tibljaš, Dražen Balen, Smiljan Mahečić, Marijan Kovačić, Dražan Jozić, Darko Španić, Katalin Judik and Peter Árkai

A9

Mantienneite from Pinciná alginite deposit (Slovakia)

Jana Vavrová, Adrián Biroň, Igor Galko and Michal Majdán

A10

Correlation of organic and inorganic temperature indicators – a case study on low-temperature metamorphic rock series from Mt. Medvednica, Croatia

Katalin Judik, Gerd Rantitsch, Thomas M. Rainer, Darko Tibljaš and Péter Árkai

A11

Thermal properties of illitic material from Lower Carboniferous black shales (Western Pomerania,
N Poland)

Katarzyna Górniak, Krzysztof Bahranowski, Adam Gaweł, Tadeusz Ratajczak and Tadeusz Szydłak

A12

Clay minerals assemblage in the Upper Albian carbonate succession (Tinjanska Draga, Istria, Croatia)

Uroš Barudžija, Neven Tadej and Jasna Tadej

A13

The origin of mineral and energy resources of Central Europe (accompanied by metallogenic map 1:2.500,000)

Harald G. Dill, Reinhard Sachsenhofer, Pavol Grecula, Tibor Sasvári, Ladislav A. Palinkaš, Sibila Borojević Šoštarić, Sabina Strmić Palinkaš, Walter Prochaska, Giorgio Garuti, Federica Zaccarini, Didier Arbouille and Markus Schulz

A14

Glauconitic materials from Lower Miocene Macelj Formation (NW Croatia) – new data

Darko Tibljaš, Radovan Avanić and Darko Hanžel

A15

Mineralogy of Latosols along a regional toposequence across the Central Plateau (Brazil): First results

Adriana Reatto, Ary Bruand, Eder S. Martins, Fabrice Muller, Euzébio M. Silva, Edi M. Guimarães and Michel Brossard

A16

Clay minerals and selected ecological aspects of soils on the island Veliki Brijun, Croatia

Franz Ottner, Monika Sieghardt, Tomislav Erstic and Marta Mileusnić

A17

Clay minerals in Jurassic bauxites and associated cover “blue hole” sequence (Istria, Croatia)

Goran Durn and Franz Ottner

A18

Micromorphology of the pedo-sedimentary colluvial complex in Sjenokoša (Istria, Croatia)

Goran Durn, Andrea Mindszenty and Judith German-Heins

A19

Geochemistry and weathering of the Late Cenozoic red clays in the Pannonian Basin

János Kovács

A20

Relationship between heavy metals and clay in Spanish agricultural topsoils

José Antonio Rodríguez Martín, Diego Morales Herraiz and José Manuel Grau Corbi

A21

Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of loess/paleosol section in Šarengrad, Srijem, Croatia

Lidija Galović, Marta Mileusnić, Zoran Peh, Goran Durn and Josip Halamić

A22

Nature and alteration of clay minerals in brown forest soil profiles (Luvisols) of Cserhát Mountains (North Hungary)

Tibor Németh and Péter Sipos

A23

Characterization of changes of low and high ordered kaolinite after bioleaching

Annamária Mockovčiaková and Iveta Štyriaková

A24

Use of Romanian clays for textile wastewater depollution

Eveline Popovici , Aurelia Vasile, Rodica Pode, Emiliana Dvininov and Erika Reisz

A25

Bacterial destruction of smectite and bacterial DNA bound in smectite sediments

Igor Štyriak, Iveta Štyriaková, Alena Španová and Bohuslav Rittich

A26

Physical properties and behaviour during leaching of synthetic aggregates made with polluted dredged sediments from Flanders, Belgium

Iván Blanco García, Rudy Swennen and Jan Elsen

A27

Bacterial removal of Fe(III) impurities from clay: A potential new technology

Iveta Štyriaková and Igor Štyriak

A28

Experimental study of iron – bentonite and pyrite – claystone interaction at low temperature

Miroslav Honty, Vladimír Šucha, Peter Komadel, Marek Osacký, Jana Madejová, Juraj Bujdák, Jana Valúchová and Peter Uhlík

A29

Geochemical studies on pore water from two different clay types in the frame of radioactive waste disposal researches

Sándor Kele, Mieke De Craen, Maarten Van Geet and Wang Lian

A30

Chemical compatibility of GCL mineral component to site-specific liquid

Biljana Kovačević Zelić, Dubravko Domitrović, Marta Mileusnić and Neven Tadej

A31

Phase composition and geotechnical evaluation of bentonite from Lieskovec, Slovakia

Slávka Andrejkovičová, Ivan Janotka and Peter Komadel

A32

Application of IP method for discovering clay zones in carbonate terrains

Snježana Dominković Alavanja and Jasna Orešković

A33

Effect of bentonite compaction on the orientation of smectite particles

Igor Stríček, Peter Uhlík, Vladimír Šucha, Renáta Adamcová, Mária Čaplovičová and Igor Galko

A34

Barrier characteristics of clay and claystone: The BETTON database

Johannes Gerardi

B1

The structure and chemistry of natural takovite and synthetic analogue of takovite

Alexey E. Kapustin, Roman A. Kozlovskiy, and David L. Bish

B2

Structure analysis of hydtotalcite intercalated with pyrenetetrasulphonate acid, molecular simulations and experiment

Miroslav Pospíšil, Marek Veteška, Pavla Čapková, Ludvík Beneš, Klára Melánová and, Vítězslav Zíma

B3

Structural heterogeneity of alkylammonium-exchanged synthetic swelling fluoromicas

Zenon Kłapyta

B4

Continuous crystal chemical space for the dioctahedral iron-rich micas and related phases (celadonite, glauconite, Fe-illite)

Tamás G. Weiszburg, Erzsébet Tóth and Dana Pop

B5

Identification of glauconite-smectite interstratification using computer simulations in NEWMOD© program

Krzysztof Starzec and Michał Skiba

B6

Thermal behaviour of synthetic takovite-like anionic clays studied by high-temperature X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy

František Kovanda, Tomáš Rojka, Vladimír Machovič and Petr Bezdička

B7

Solid-state NMR study of stability of “geopolymers” prepared from alkaline activated metakaoline

Jiri Brus, Martina Urbanova, David Kolousek and Jana Andertova

B8

Evolution of swelling and hydration properties of a compacted hectorite percolated by nickel solutions

Lydie Le Forestier, Patrick Baillif, Chantal Proust and Fabrice Muller

B9

Acid treatment of clay minerals: a FTIR spectroscopic study

Martin Pentrák and Jana Madejová

B10

Sorption kinetics and equilibrium of thiocyanate anion on Mg_xZn_3-xAl -type hydrotalcites

Eveline Popovici,  Rodica Pode, Erika Reisz, Laura Cocheci, Vasile Pode and Elena Mihaela Seftel

B11

Sorption equilibrium of phosphate anion on Mg_xZn_3-xAl -type hydrotalcites

Rodica Pode, Eveline Popovici, Laura Cocheci, Erika Reisz and Elena Mihaela Seftel

B12

Sorption of arsenic on clay minerals – a theoretical approach

Goran Kniewald and Željka Fiket

B13

Mechanism of As sorption on Fe-treated clays

Barbora Doušová, Tomáš Grygar, Alexandr Martaus, David Koloušek, Lucie Fuitová and Vladimir Machovič

B14

Energy transfer between cations of laser dyes in dispersions of reduced charge montmorillonites

Adriana Czímerová, Juraj Bujdák and Nobuo Iyi

B15

Spectroscopic study of interaction of porphyrin dyes with layered silicates

Alexander Čeklovský and Juraj Bujdák

B16

Intercalation of aniline in Wyoming montmorillonite exchanged with different cations

Fabrice Muller, Jean Michel Bény and Mathieu Gautier

B17

Properties of clay mineral surfaces modified by intensive physical disintegration

Ivan Sondi and Neda Vdović

B18

Modification of the montmorillonite surface with cationic surfactants

Petr Praus, Martina Turicová, Soňa Študentová and Gabriela Kartošová

B19

Structure and dynamics of cationic surfactants intercalated in synthetic clays

Robert Müller, Jana Valúchová, Cédric Calberg, Robert Jérôme and Jean Grandjean

B20

Metal complex exchange in natural zeolites

Štefica Cerjan-Stefanović, Natalija Zabukovec-Logar, Karmen Margeta, Mario Šiljeg and Branka Vojnović

B21

The equilibrium isotherm for lead removal by natural zeolite-clinoptilolite: a comparison of batch and column methods

Jelena Perić, Nediljka Vukojević Medvidović and Marina Trgo

B22

Influence of the synthesis conditions on the physico-chemical characteristics of porous clay heterostructures

Helena Pálková, Małgorzata Zimowska, Ewa M. Serwicka and Fathi Kooli

B23

Influence of the synthesis condition on Cu-Mn layered double hydroxides

Małgorzata Zimowska, Justyna Plona,  Alicja Michalik-Zym and Ewa M. Serwicka

B24

The synthesis of iron-containing pillared clays from natural clays of Transbaikalia and research of their catalytic properties in wet oxidation of phenol by hydrogen peroxide

Sesegma Ts. Khankhasaeva, Sayana V. Badmaeva, Elvira Ts. Dashinamzhilova and Ulya V. Dobolova

B25

Phase transformations of Co-M^III layered double hydroxides (M^III = Al, Cr, Fe, or Mn) during thermal treatment

Tomáš Rojka, František Kovanda, Barbora Doušová and David Koloušek

B26

Hydrothermal stability of geopolymers

David Koloušek, Jindřich Vorel, Barbora Doušová, Martina Urbanová, Jiří Brus, Roman Slavík, Jana Andertová, Vladimír Machovič, Vlastimil Bílek, Pavel Hájek

B27

Influence of controlled mechanical deformation on structural, thermal and technological properties of commercial talc

Francesco Dellisanti, Vanna Minguzzi and Giovanni Valdrè

B28

Production of synthetic lightweight aggregates (LWA) from mining wastes

Iván Blanco García, Javier Luque, José F. Barrenechea, Jacinto Alonso Azcarate, Jan Elsen, Magdalena Rodas, Rudy Swennen, Carlos J. Sánchez, Michele Dondi

B29

Vulcanized rubber filled with modified montmorillonite

Jana Hrachová, Ivan Chodák and Peter Komadel

B30

Physical-chemical and mineralogical characterization of the Hălmagiu clay (Arad county, Romania), a raw material for ceramic industry

Maria Gorea, Marcel Benea and Cristina Mariş

B31

Triassic red clays in Poland and their importance for ceramic industry

Piotr Wyszomirski

B32

1773: the year of the first manufacture of porcelain in Portugal

Celso de Sousa Figueiredo Gomes

B33

Brick kilns of northern Lower Austria: History and geology

Helga Papp, Mandana Peresson, Reinhard Roetzel and Ingeborg Wimmer-Frey