Programme

 ICC 2021 WORKSHOPS

AIPEA School for Young Scientists (ASYS)
July 10–11 (Saturday-Sunday), 2021
17^th International Clay Conference (ICC 2021), İstanbul, Turkey
Location of workshop is Istanbul Technical University Maslak Campus
Meeting rooms are in the Faculty of Mines Building

Kaolin: Origin, properties, and applications

Workshop Leader: Prakash B. Malla
Director of Research & Development, Thiele Kaolin Company, Sandersville, Georgia, USA
prakash.malla@thielekaolin.com

Kaolin is an important and widely used industrial mineral. It plays an integral part in our everyday lives since it is ubiquitous in many products we use daily such as printing and packaging paper and paperboard products, paints, plastics, ceramics, rubber, ink, high strength concrete, catalysts, pharmaceuticals, proppants for extracting natural gas and oil, etc. Kaolin also plays an important role in our environment and many geochemical processes including soils. This workshop will be presented in a tutorial format and designed for students, young scientists, and any professionals who wish to learn about the roles kaolin play in natural environments and processes as well as industrial applications. Tentativley, the following topics will be covered:

1. Course Overview
2. Structure and Properties
3. Genesis and Alteration Mineralogy
4. Exploration, Mıning, and Processing
5. Commercial Kaolin Deposits (worldwide) and their Characteristics
6. Kaolin Application I (Paper, Paints, Plastics, Rubber)
7. Kaolin application II (Ceramics, Geo-polymer, Cements, Concrete)
8. Kaolin Application III (Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals, Crop Protection)
9. Halloysite Properties and Applications
10. Adsorption, Retention, and Removal of Metals and Organics by Kaolin
11. Kaolin as a Source for Rare Earth Elements
12. Kaolin Synthesis
13. Nanokaolin – Preparation, Properties and Applications

The Clay Minerals Society Workshop Lecture Series
July 10 (Saturday), 2021
17^th International Clay Conference (ICC 2021), İstanbul, Turkey
Location of workshop is Istanbul Technical University Maslak Campus
Meeting rooms are in the Faculty of Mines Building

Advances in the characterization of smectites in bentonites

Workshop Leader: George E. Christidis
Technical University of Crete, School of Mineral Resources Engineering, 73100 Chania, Greece
christid@mred.tuc.gr

Bentonites are very important industrial clays valued by the industry due to the unique properties of smectites. The workshop will present recent aspects of geological/geochemical characterization of bentonites and advances in the characterization of smectites using traditional and novel approaches and is addressed to young and experienced researchers and PhD students. Of particular importance are the description of heterogeneity of smectites, and the determination of key smectite properties, which control both conventional and novel industrial and environmental applications. The main topics of interest will be presented by invited lecturers with long experience in the field of smectite and bentonite research. In addition, we invite researchers and postgraduate students to submit contributions for oral and poster presentations. The topics, which will be covered in the workshop, include:

1. Geological/geochemical characterization of bentonites.
2. Traditional and new methods to distinguish smectite-types by X-ray diffraction.
3. Methods for determination of the layer charge of smectites.
4. Methods for determination of ion exchange in bentonites.
5. Thermal analysis of smectites.
6. Advances in Electron microscopy for the study of smectites.
7. Molecular modeling of interaction of smectite surfaces with various molecules.

AIPEA Workshop
July 11 (Sunday), 2021
17th International Clay Conference (ICC 2021), İstanbul, Turkey
Location of workshop is Istanbul Technical University Maslak Campus
Meeting rooms are in the Faculty of Mines Building

Clay mineral catalysis of organic reactions
Workshop Leader: Benny K.G. Theng
Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
thengb@landcareresearch.co.nz

The tentative titles of the lectures are as follows:

1. Clays and Clay Minerals as Catalysts
2. Surface Acidity and Catalytic Activity
3. Surface Activation and Modification
4. Organic Catalysis by Clay-supported Reagents
5. Clay Mineral Catalysis of ‘Name’ Reactions
6. Clay Mineral Catalysis of Isomerization, Dimerization, Oligomerization, and Polymerization Reactions
7. Clay Mineral Catalysis of Redox, Asymmetric, and Enantioselective Reactions
8. Clay Mineral Catalysis of Natural Processes and Prebiotic Organic Reactions

VENUE: İstanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Mines

All conference workshops and school will be held at the Faculty of Mines building in İstanbul Technical University (ITU) Campus, Maslak, İstanbul. The rooms where workshop will be held are on the ground floor of the building. Signs will direct participants upon arrival.

There are two entrances/exits to/from the M2 Metro ITU-Ayazaga station. If you are coming from the Hilton-Maslak side, you must pass underground through the Metro Station to the ITU side. Do not try to cross the street above ground!  If you come by Metro, then use the southwest ITU exit, which directs you to the ITU campus (see images above to guide you). Please inform the ITU gate guards that you are an AIPEA workshop participant and that you are going to the Faculty of Mines building. They will let you through the gate. It is about a 5 minutes walk from ITU Metro entrance to the Faculty of Mines building. If you arrive by taxi, then the driver will inform the gate guards you are being dropped off at the Faculty of Mines building (in Turkish you can say “Maden Fakultesi”).