A Mechanistic Exploration of Natural Organic Matter Aggregation and Surface Complexation in Smectite Mesopores

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. a
Narasimhan LoganathanGeoffrey M Bowers

Abstract

Soil minerals and organic matter play critical roles in nutrient cycling and other life-essential biogeochemical processes, yet the structural and dynamical details of natural organic matter (NOM) film formation on smectites are not fully understood on the molecular scale. XRD of Suwannee River NOM-hectorite (a smectite clay) complexes shows that the humic and fulvic components of NOM bind predominantly at the external surfaces of packets of smectite platelets rather than in the interlayer slit pores, suggesting that the key behavior governing smectite-NOM interactions takes place in mesopores between smectite particles. New molecular dynamics modeling of a ∼110 Å H2O-saturated smectite mesopore at near-neutral pH shows that model NOM molecules initially form small clusters of 2-3 NOM molecules near the center of the pore fluid. Formation of these clusters is driven by the hydrophobic mechanism, where aromatic/aliphatic regions associate with one another to minimize their interactions with H2O, and charge-balancing cations associated with the deprotonated carboxylate sites are located only at the outer surface of these clusters. Despite hydrophobicity driving the initial clustering, NOM clusters are formed more quickly when hig...Continue Reading

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