Chapter 1: Maria Franca Brigatti, Daniele Malferrari, Angela Laurora and Chiara Elmi. Structure and mineralogy of layer silicates: recent perspectives and new trends.
Chapter 2: Stephen Guggenheim. An Overview of Order/Disorder in Hydrous Phyllosilicates.
Chapter 3: Zhi Lin, Filipe A. Almeida Paz & João Rocha. Layered titanosilicates.
Chapter 4: Bruno Lanson. Modelling of X-ray diffraction profiles: Investigation of defective lamellar structure crystal chemistry.
Chapter 5: C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz. Applications of computational atomistic methods to phyllosilicates.
Chapter 6: George E. Christidis. The concept of layer charge of smectites and its implications for important smectite-water properties.
Chapter 7: Faïza Bergaya and Gerhard Lagaly. Intercalation processes of layered minerals.
Chapter 8: Annibale Mottana and Luca Aldega. Advanced techniques to define intercalation processes.
Chapter 9: Giovanni Valdrè, Daniele Moro and Gianfranco Ulian. Interaction of organic molecules with layer silicates, oxides and hydroxides and related surface-nano-characterization techniques.
Chapter 10: Robert A. Schoonheydt and Cliff T. Johnston. The surface properties of clay minerals.