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http://dx.doi.org/10.22807/KJMP.2020.33.3.143

A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Na- and K-birnessite Interlayer Structures  

Park, Sujeong (Department of Geology of Kangwon National University)
Kwon, Kideok D. (Department of Geology of Kangwon National University)
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Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology / v.33, no.3, 2020 , pp. 143-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
Birnessite is a layered manganese oxide mineral with ~7 Å of d-spacing. Because of its high cation exchange capacity, birnessite greatly impacts the chemical compositions of ground water and fluids in sediment pores. Understanding the cation exchange mechanisms requires atomistic investigations of the crystal structures and coordination environments of hydrated cations in the interlayer. In this study, we conducted classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, an atomistic simulation method of computational mineralogy, for triclinic Na-birnessite and K-birnessite whose chemical formula are from previous experiments. We report our MD simulation results of the crystal structures, coordination environments of Na+ and K+, and the polytypes of birnessite and compare them with available experimental results. The simulation results well reproduced experimental lattice parameters and provided atomic level information for the interlayer cation and water molecule sites that are difficult to distinguish in X-ray experiments. We also report that the polytype of the Mn octahedral sheets is identical between Na- and K-birnessite, but the cation positions differ from each other, demonstrating a correlation between the coordination environment of the interlayer cations and the crystal lattice parameters. This study shows that MD simulations are very promising in elucidating ion exchange reactions of birnessite.
Keywords
Triclinic birnessite; Cation exchanges; Polytype; Molecular dynamics simulations; MnFn;
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