In 1993, researchers at Toyota Central R&D reported that 5 wt % of an exfoliated clay could double the roomtemperature modulus of nylon-6, a semicrystalline engineering plastic, and raise its heat distortion temperature by more than 80 °Call without sacrificing toughness. That work stimulated a worldwide effort to synthesize and study polymer–matrix nanocompositesand it also highlighted the i...

results totally, 93.3% of lesions in the s.c group healed in the first 6 hours, while this rate was 40% in c.o group (p < 0.001). the healing ratio for improvement in the first 6 hours was 7 times more in the s.c group. in addition, 90% of infants in the sc group and 36.7% in the c.o group were improved completely in the first 3 days (p < 0.001). patients and methods a randomized, double blind,...

introduction: nanocomposites are prepared by introduction of dispersed nanoscale particles into the polymer matrix based on four methods: template synthesis (sol-gel preparation); intercalation of polymer; and in situ intercalative polymerization and last one is melt blending, the most favorable and practical method due to its simplest, economical and environmentally friendly technic. this meth...

Seven current methods of protein quantitation, Bradford (standard, micro, and 590/450 nm ratio), Lowry, bicinchoninic acid (BCA), UV spectrophotometry at 280 nm, and Quant-iT fluorescence-based determination, were compared with regard to their susceptibility to interferences due to the presence of suspended and not easily detectable clay particles. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and Na-Wyoming mont...

Recently, Supercritical fluids have been used in material synthesis and processing because of their special properties such as high diffusivity, low viscosity, and low surface tension. Supercritical carbon dioxide is the most attractive because it is non-toxic, non-flammable, and has moderate critical temperature and critical pressure. Moreover, and can also swell most polymers. In this study, ...

Chemical modifications of clay to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions at room temperature were compared. Natural bentonite (NC) was modified by cation exchange with hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride (HC), bencyltriethylammonium chloride (BC), and tetramethylammonium chloride (TC) to reverse the surface polarity of the hydrophilic bentonite. The adsorption of MB was studied and f...

This study presents methods for treating a kind of nanoclay and investigates the effects of methylaluminoxane (MAO) exposure time and or dodecylamine (DDA) reflux time on in-situ polymerization of ethylene in the presence of nanoclay and examines the morphology and properties of the prepared polyethylene/clay nanocomposites. The results revealed that by increasing MAO exposure time productivity...