This week at our Research Center in Krakow, the ClayLab team is running a world-famous workshop on clay mineralogy for students, early career academics, and industry professionals. Participants from as far as Japan came to learn about the fascinating world of clay minerals.
The workshop includes a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. All basic aspects of clay science are covered, such as clay fraction separation, chemical pretreatments, and interpretation of X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and thermogravimetric data for clay-rich materials.
We are grateful to David Bish (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA), Georgios Chryssikos (Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, NHRF, Athens, Greece), Reiner Dohrmann (BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany), Stephen Hillier (James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK), Micheal Plötze (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), and Michał Skiba (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) for joining us this week to share their knowledge.
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