Publications authored or

co-authored by Dr. W.P. Gates.

 

 

 

 

 

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Submitted Journal Papers

 

1.  Gates WP, Hitchcock AP, Dynes JJ.  Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy study of sodium beneficiation reactions of Ca2+-smectite. (revision of previous submission)

2.  Benson CH, Oren AH, Gates WP. Hydraulic conductivity of two geosynthetic clay liners permeated with alkaline leachate. Submitted to Geotextiles and Geomembranes Special Issue on Geosynthetics in Mining. February 2009.

3.  Wallis PJ, Chaffee AL, Gates WP, Patti AF, Scott JL. Microstructural properties of mixed-cation organo-clay systems.  Journal of Molcular Catalysts A.  January 2009 (revision of previous submission)

4.  Gates WP, Bouazza A.  Bentonite transformations in strongly alkaline solutions.  Submitted to Geotextiles and Geomembranes Special Issue on Geosynthetics in Mining. December 2008

5.  Hornsey WP, Scheirs J, Gates WP, Bouazza A.  The impact of mining processes on geosynthetics.  Submitted to Geotextiles and Geomembranes Special Issue on Geosynthetics in Mining. December 2008.

 

Journal Publications

 

1. Gates WP, Bouazza A, Churchman GJ. (2009) Bentonite clay keeps pollutants at bay.  Elements. 6: In Press. Accepted October 2008.

2. Bouazza A, Gates WP, Ranjith PG. (2008)  Hydraulic conductivity of biopolymer-treated silty sand.  Géotechnique. 58: In press. Accepted October 2008.

3. Bordallo HN, Aldridge LP, Churchman GJ, Gates WP, Telling MTF, Kiefer K, Fouquet P, Seydel T, Kimber SA. 2008. Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Studies on Clay Interlayer-Space Highlighting the Effect of the Cation in Confined Water Dynamics J. Physical Chemistry C. 112, 36:13982-13991.

4. Gates WP. 2008. Cation mass – valence sum approach to assigning OH bending bands in dioctahedral smectites.  Clays and Clay Minerals. 56:11-23.

5.  Cashion JD, Gates WP, Thomson A.  2008.  Mössbauer and IR analysis of iron sites in four ferruginous smectites.  Clay Minerals.  43:1-11.

6.  Wallis PJ, Gates WP, Patti, AF, Scot, JL, Teoh E.  2007. How to asses and improve the catalytic activity of K-10 montmorillonite.  Green Chemistry. 9:1-8.

7.  Slade PG, Gates WP.  2007.  HDTMA in the interlayers of high charge Llano vermiculite.  Clays and Clay Minerals. 55:131-139.

8.  Galbally I, Meyer M, Bentley S, Weeks I, Leuning R, Kelly K, Phillips F, Barker-Reid F, Gates W, Baigent R, Eckard R, Grace P.  2005. A study of environmental and management drivers of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in Australian agro-ecosystems.  Environmental Sciences. 2:133-142.

9.  Gates WP.  2004. Crystalline swelling of organo-modified clays in ethanol-water solutions.  Applied Clay Science. 27:1-12.

10.  Gates WP, Nefiodovas A, Peter P. 2004. Permeability of an organo-modified bentonite to ethanol-water solutions. Clays and Clay Minerals. 52:192-203.

11.  Slade PG, Gates WP.  2004.  The ordering of HDTMA in the interlayers of vermiculite and the influence of solvents.  Clays and Clay Minerals. 52:204-211.

12.  Slade PG, Gates WP. 2004. The swelling of HDTMA smectites as influenced by their preparation and layer charges.  Applied Clay Science. 25:93-101.

13.  Singh N, Megharaj M, Gates WP, Churchman GJ, Naidu R, Kookana RS. 2004. Sorption-desorption of fenamiphos in surfactant-modified clays. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 72:276-282.

14.  Singh N, Megharaj M, Gates WP, Churchman GJ, Anderson J, Kookana RS, Naidu R, Chen Z, Slade PG, Sethunathan N. 2003.  Bioavailability of an organophosphate pesticide, fenamiphos, sorbed on an organo-clay.  Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 51:2653-2658.

15.  Krull ES, Bestland EA, Gates WP. 2002. Soil organic matter decomposition and turnover in a tropical ultisol: Evidence from d13C and d15N and geochemistry. Radiocarbon. 44, 93-112.

16.  Favre F, Tessier D, Delarivière JL, Maeght JL, Abdelmoula M, Génin JM, Hammecker C, Gates WP, Boivin P. 2002. Iron reduction and CEC changes in temporarily reduced irrigated soil. European Journal of Soil Science. 53:175-183.

17.  Gates WP, Slade PG, Lanson B, Manceau A. 2002.  Site occupancies by iron in nontronites. Clays and Clay Minerals.  50:223-239.

18.  Gates WP, Anderson J, Raven MD, Churchman GJ. 2002. Characterisation of the acid-treated products of a bentonite from Miles, Queensland, Australia. Applied Clay Science. 20, 189-197.  (Invited Special Issue on Australian Clay Mineral Resources.)

19.  Nzengung VA, Castillo RM, Gates WP, Mills GL. 2001. Abiotic transformation of perchloroethylene in homogeneous dithionite solution and in suspensions of dithionite-treated clay minerals. Environmental Science and Technology.  35:2244-2251.

20.  Keeling J, Raven M, Gates WP.  2000.  Geology and preliminary characterisation of two nontronites from Uley graphite mine, South Australia.  Clays and Clay Minerals. 48:537-548.

21.  Gates WP, Komadel P, Madejová J, Bujdák J, Stucki JW, Kirkpatrick RJ. 2000. Electronic and structural properties of reduced-charge montmorillonites. Applied Clay Science. 16:257-271.

22.  Frost RL, Ruan H, Kloprogge JT, Gates WP. 2000.  Dehydration and dehydroxylation of nontronites and ferruginous smectite.  Thermochimica Acta. 346:63-72.

23.  Manceau A, Drits VA, Lanson B, Chateigner D, Wu J, Huo DF, Gates WP, Stucki JW. 2000. Oxidation-reduction mechanisms of iron in dioctahedral smectites. 2. Structural chemistry of reduced Garfield nontronite.  American Mineralogist. 85:153-172.

24.  Manceau A, Lanson B, Drits VA, Chateigner D, Gates WP, Wu J, Huo DF, Stucki JW. 2000. Oxidation-reduction mechanisms of iron in dioctahedral smectites. 1. Structural chemistry of oxidized reference nontronites.  American Mineralogist. 85:133-152.

25.  Gates WP, Juanet AM, Tessier D, Cole MA, Wilkinson HT, Stucki JW. 1998. Swelling and texture of iron-bearing smectites reduced by bacteria. Clays and Clay Minerals. 46:487-497.

26.  Ernstsen V, Gates WP, Stucki JW. 1998. Microbial reduction of structural iron in clays - a renewable source of reduction capacity.  Journal of Environmental Quality. 27:761-766.

27.  Manceau A, Chateigner D, Gates WP. 1998. Polarized EXAFS, distance-valence least-squares modeling (DLVS), and quantitative texture analysis approaches to the structural refinement of Garfield nontronite.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. 25:347-365.

28.  Suchá V, Elsass F, Eberl DD, Kuchta L, Madejová J, Gates WP, Komadel P. 1998. Hydrothermal synthesis of ammonium illite. American Mineralogist. 83:58-67.

29.  Gates WP, Hunter DB, Nuessle PR, Bertsch PM. 1997. A time resolved XANES study of an organo-clay redox system. Proceedings of the 9th International conference on X-ray absorption fine structure, Grenoble, France.  J.  Physics, IV, France. 7:C2, 785-787.

30.  Manceau A, Gates WP. 1997. Surface structural model for ferrihydrite. Clays and Clay Minerals.  45:448-460.

31.  Gates WP, Stucki JW, Kirkpatrick RJ. 1996. Structural properties of reduced Upton montmorillonite.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  23, 535-541.

32.  Madejová J, Bujdák J, Gates WP, Komadel P. 1996. Preparation and infrared spectroscopic characterization of reduced-charge montmorillonite with various Li content. Clay Minerals. 31:233-24.

33.  Komadel P, Madejová J, Janek M, Gates WP, Kirkpatrick RJ, Stucki JW. 1995. Dissolution of hectorite in inorganic acids.  Clays and Clay Minerals.  44, 228-236.

34.  Gates WP, Wilkinson HT, Stucki JW. 1993. Swelling properties of microbially-reduced ferruginous smectite. Clays and Clay Minerals. 41:360-364.

 

 

1. Likos, W.J., Bowders, J.J., Gates, W.P. 2009. Mineralogy and engineering properties of bentonite.  In: Bouazza, A. and Bowders, J.J., Geosynthetics clay liners in waste containment facilities, Taylor and Francis, U.K. (in press).

2. Bouazza A, Gates WP Abuel-Naga H. 2006.  Factors impacting liquid and gas flow through geosynthetic clay liners. Geosynthetics – Recent Developments. Commemorating Two Decades of Geosynthetics in India, Indian International Geosynthetics Society, New Delhi. Chapter 9, pp. 119-146.

3. Gates WP. 2006.  X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Chapter 12.3 IN F Bergaya, G Lagaly, BKG Theng. (Eds.) Handbook of Clay Science. 1. Elsevier, 550p.

4. Churchman GJ, Gates WP, Yuan G, Theng BKG. 2006.  Clays and pollution control. Chapter 11.1 IN F Bergaya, G Lagaly, BKG Theng. (Eds.) Handbook of Clay Science. 1. Elsevier, 550p.

5. Gates WP.  2005.  Infrared spectroscopy and the chemistry of dioctahedral smectites. p.126-168 IN: T. Kloprogge (ed.) Vibrational Spectroscopy of Layer Silicates and Hydroxides.  Clay Minerals Society Workshop Series. Vol 14. Aurora.

6. Manceau A, Schlegel M, Chateigner D, Lanson B, Bartoli C, Gates WP. 1999. P.Application of polarized EXAFS to fine-grained layered minerals. IN: Schultz DL, Bertsch PM, Stucki JW (eds.). Synchrotron X-ray Methods in Clay Science. Volume 9, CMS Workshop Lectures. The Clay Minerals Society, Boulder.

7. Naidu R, Smith E, Mallavarapu M, Smith LH, Sreedaran R, Churchman GJ, Kookana RS, Juhasz A, Gates WP, Oliver D, Ragusa S, Taylor G, Peter P.  1999.  Options for remediating metal contaminated soils: An overview.  In: CD Johnston (ed.) Contaminated site remediation: Challenges posed by urban and industrial contaminants.  Centre for Groundwater Studies, Perth.

8. Hunter DB, Gates WP, Bertsch PM, Kemner KM. 1999. Degradation of tetraphenylboron at hydrated smectite surfaces studied by time resolved IR and X-ray absorption spectroscopies. P. 282-300, IN: DL Sparks, TJ Grundl, Eds., Mineral Water Interfacial Reactions: Kinetics and Mechanisms, ACS symposium series 715, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.

9. Gates WP, Teppen BJ, Bertsch PM. 1997. Aromatic sorption in the interlayer space of organo-clays.  Proceedings of the Industrimineralogy Meeting, Neubrandenburg, Germany. Schriftenreihe für Angewandte Geowissenschaften.  1:41-48.

 

 Proceedings Papers

 

1.  Bouazza A, Abuel-Naga HM, Gates WP, Laloui, L.  2008.  Temperature effects on volume and hydraulic properties of geosynthetic clay liners.  Proceedings of the 1st Pan American Geosynthetics Conference and Exhibition. 2-5 March. Cuncun, Mexico.

2.  Gates WP. 2007. Geosynthetic clay liner technology: Understanding bentonite.  National Landfill and Transfer Station Conference, Melbourne, November 2007.  Waste Management Association of Australia.

3.  Theng BKG, Churchman GJ, Gates WP, Yuan G.  2006.  Organically modified clays for pollutant uptake and environmental protection. Proceedings of the 4th ISMOM Conference, Huazhong Agricultural University, Hubei Province, Peoples Republic of China. 

4.  Galbally I, Kelly K, Phillips F, Baigent R, Barker-Reid F, Gates WP, Grace P, Meyer M, Eckard R, Leuning R, Chen D, Weeks I, Bentley S, Griffith D. 2005. A Study of Environmental and Management Drivers of non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Australian Agro-Ecosystems, Proceedings of the 17th International Clean Air and Environment Conference, Hobart, Australia 3-6 May 2005, Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand.

5.  Thompson A, Cashion JD, Gates WP. 2007.  Mossbauer analysis of iron sites in four Na- and Ca-saturated ferruginous smectites. Proceedings of the 31st A&NZ Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga.

6.  Gates WP. 1998. Physical properties of smectites influenced by microbial reduction of structural iron. Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of Soil Science. Montpellier, France. ISSS, Cirad.

7.  Gates WP, Madejová J, Janek M, Komadel P. 1994. Spectroscopic study of hectorite dissolution in HCL. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Mineralogy and Petrology, Prague, Czech Republic.  Geologica 38:183-191. 

 

 Patents

 

1.  Gates WP, in the name of ELCO Solutions Pty Ltd, 2008. A method of improving hydraulic performance of clay. Australian Patent No. PCT/AU2008/001212. International Patents Pending.

2.  Gates WP, Slade PG, in the name of CSIRO, 2001.  Removal of toxins from water.  Australian Patent No. PCT/AU01/00586. Expired.