Clay is a soil component, a ceramic ware component, and a reinforcement in nanocomposites. Its viscoelastic behavior is relevant to vibration damping and slip rheology. The clay studied is hectorite, which is a trioctahedral magnesium-based smectite. Clay compacts with solid contents (50–53) vol% are studied in terms of the dynamic compressive properties at small static strains (3.1–3.5 %), low...

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Experimental study of Ar-CH4 gas mixture adsorption over exfoliated graphite: kinetic reversal of adsorption selectivity1 MATIAS RAFTI, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoqúımicas Teoricas y Aplicadas, (INIFTACONICET), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, VAIVA KRUNGLEVICIUTE2, ALDO MIGONE, Southern Illinois University Carbondale — A...

Graphite nanoplates (GnPs) are exfoliated graphite particles in the form of thin flakes—with large surface areas and nanosized thicknesses— that tend to agglomerate because of van der Waals interactions. GnPs are commonly used to reinforce composite materials. It is expected that maximum composite performance levels should occur when GnP agglomerates are dispersed within the polymer matrix as p...