Mineral surfaces can support several processes that likely play a role in the origin of life including the concentration, selective sorption[1], protection[2], organization[3-5], and polymerization[6] of organic molecules. Clay minerals are predicted to be present in prebiotic environments and provide a large surface area for reactions with organic molecules. Interactions between early biomolec...

This work reports the behavior of montmorillonite–magnetite mixtures varying composition in aqueous dispersions and evaluates their adsorbing properties using a cationic organic pollutant, methylene blue (MB+), an anionic inorganic arsenate (As(V)), as species. The effects presence montmorillonite on As(V) adsorption by magnetite MB+ clay were specially addressed. simple mixture dispersion with...

Chemical activity diagraoas , prepared to illustrate the properties expected if mixed-layer montmorillonite/illite is regarded as a solid solution, are compared to those derived from a treatment of these materials as a mixture of two phases. If the system is a solid solution, the coexisting aqueous solution should range from higher dissolved silica contents in the presence of kaolinite and a mo...

Montmorillonite impregnated with bismuth nitrate has been found to be an excellent reagent for the synthesis of several nitro compounds of biological significance in high yield.

A mild and efficient catalytic method for synthesis of 5-alkoxycarbonyl-4-aryl-3, 4dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones using KSF montmorillonite as catalyst is described.

The interaction of aminotriazole (AMT) at pH 4 on Wyoming montmorillonite (mainly with Na ions) and Mg-vermiculite has been studied by X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy. The AMT is adsorbed on montmorillonite in the cationic form by cation exchange. The amount of pesticide adsorbed was 71 mEq/100 g, which comprises *91% of the CEC of this sample (78.2 mEq/100 g). Saturation was reache...

Humic acids and clays are important soil components that influence the sorption and desorption of organic contaminants; however, it is unclear how humic acids influence the sorption of organic contaminants onto clays and their subsequent desorption. Sorption and desorption of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) by and from humic acid-modified K(+)- and Ca(2+)-montmorillonite and -illite were comp...

novel citric acid modified starch-carboxy methyl cellulose (cmc) -montmorillonite (mmt) bionanocomposite films were prepared by casting method and the effect of mmt on the structural and physical properties of the starch-cmc biocomposites was studied. x-ray diffraction test showed thatstrong polar interactions between the hydroxyl groups present in the starch and cmc chains and in the silicate ...