Diclofenac sodium and alginate was intercalated into montmorillonite to form uniform sized beads by gelation method. The structure and surface morphology of the synthesized composite beads were characterized by powdered X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermo gravimetric analysis and scanning electron microscopy. Diclofenac release kinetics of the composite in simulat...

The effect of the ionic strength on adsorption of Cu on calcium montmorillonite was studied at concentrations ranging from 31 to 516 microM. An adsorption model was employed in the analysis of the data. When the background electrolyte was NaClO4, the ionic exchange was suppressed at 0.5 M concentration, and Cu adsorption took place on edge sites, reaching a plateau at about 24 mmol/kg. A furthe...

1 We studied the interaction between the naturally occurring polycation spermine (SPERM) and 2 Na-exchanged SWy-2 Wyoming montmorillonite (Na-SWy-2 Mt) and between spermine3 exchanged montmorillonite (Mt-SPERM) and the herbicide fluometuron. Mt-SPERM with 4 spermine contents ranging between 0 and 1.2 times the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of 5 Na-SWy-2 were studied by XRD, FTIR and TGA analys...

This work describes the first hydrothermal synthesis in fluoride medium of Ni-Al montmorillonite-like phyllosilicates, in which the only metallic elements in the octahedral sheet are Ni and Al. X-ray diffraction, chemical analysis, thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy confirm that the synthesized samples are montm...

Pyrene removal by polycation-montmorillonite (MMT) composites and granulated activated carbon (GAC) in the presence of humic acid (HA) was examined. Pyrene, HA, and sorbent interactions were characterized by FTIR, fluorescence and zeta measurements, adsorption, and column filtration experiments. Pyrene binding coefficients to the macromolecules were in the order of PVPcoS (poly-4-vinylpiridine-...

novel collagen-based hydrogel nanocomposites were synthesized by graft copolymerization of acrylamide and maleic anhydrid in the presence of different amounts of montmorillonite, using methylenebisacrylamide (mba)and ammonium persulfate (aps) as crosslinker and initiator, respectively. the optimum amount of clay on the swelling properties of the samples was studied. it was found that the hydrog...

Abstraet--A quantitative method for determination of montmorillonite in the soil clay fraction, using X-ray spectrometry, is proposed. The method is based on the fact that polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) is adsorbed on the interlayer surfaces of montmorillonite, giving a first order c-axis spacing of 26/~, while it is not adsorbed on other swelling clays. The experimental conditions to obtain a maxi...

An intensive study has been made of the removal efficiency of Cu(II) from industrial leachate by biosorption of montmorillonite. A 2(4) factorial design and cascade forward neural network (CFNN) were used to display the significant levels of the analyzed factors on the removal efficiency. The obtained model based on 2(4) factorial design was statistically tested using the well-known methods. Th...

Coconut fatty acid diethanolamine (cocamide-DEA (CDEA)), CH3(CH2)16CON(CH2CH2OH)2 was intercalated into montmorillonite using both solution and solid-state reaction methods. In a typical process, the CDEA aqueous mixed with (Kunipia-F) suspension, which resulted in CDEA–montmorillonite layer complex basal spacing of 13.8 Å. A also easily prepared by solid–solid method. mixture Na–montmorillonit...