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Clays control carbon, water and nutrient transport in the lithosphere,promote cloud formation5 and lubricate fault slip through interactions amonghydrated mineral interfaces. Clay mineral properties are difficult to modelbecause their structures are disordered, curved and dynamic. Consequently,interactions at the clay mineral-aqueous interface have been approximated usingelectric double layer models based on single crystals of mica and atomisticsimulations. We discover that waves of complexation dipoles at dynamicallycurving interfaces create an emergent long-range force that drives exfoliationand restacking over time- and length-scales that are not captured in existingmodels. Curvature delocalizes electrostatic interactions in ways thatfundamentally differ from planar surfaces, altering the ratio of ions bound tothe convex and concave sides of a layer. Multiple-scattering reconstruction oflow-dose energy-filtered cryo electron tomography enabled direct imaging of ioncomplexes and electrolyte distributions at hydrated and curved mineralinterfaces with {\aa}ngstrom resolution over micron length scales. Layersexfoliate and restack abruptly and repeatedly over timescales that dependstrongly on the counterion identity, demonstrating that the strong couplingbetween elastic, electrostatic and hydration forces in clays promote collectivereorganization previously thought to be a feature only of active matter.

Dynamic clay microstructures emerge via ion complexation waves