Ghezeljeh montmorillonite nanoclay was used as a natural adsorbent to measure and remove copper ions released from the cooking pot into food by applying the solid phase extraction (SPE) method in batch mode. The clay is characterized by using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffractometry (XRD). The results of XRD and FT-IR of n...

Sepiolite is a magnesium silicate-containing nanoclay mineral and is utilized as a nanofiller for nanocomposite applications. We postulated that lung exposures to Sepiolite clay samples could produce sustained effects. Accordingly, the pulmonary and extrapulmonary systemic impacts in rats of intratracheally instilled Sepiolite nanoclay samples were compared with quartz or ultrafine (uf) titaniu...

Changes in the Activity of the Pulmonary Surfactant after Contact with Bentonite Nanoclay Particles Dorota Kondej*, Tomasz R. Sosnowski Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute, Department of Chemical, Aerosol and Biological Hazards, Czerniakowska 16, 00-701 Warsaw, Poland Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Waryńskiego 1, 0...

atom transfer radical polymerization of styrene (st) and methyl methacrylate (mma) was performed at 90oc in the absence and presence of nanoclay (cloisite 30b). trichloromethyl-terminated poly(vinyl acetate) telomerand cucl/ pmdeta were used as a macroinitiator and catalyst system, respectively. the experimental results showed that the atom transfer radical polymerization of st and mma in the a...

Room temperature direct-ink-write printing of epoxy-nanoclay-carbon fiber composites produces parts with high stiffness and strength. Establishing clear relationships between print parameters, filler orientation, properties is difficult, in part owing to challenges characterization. Here, we perform scanning microbeam X-ray scattering 5 micrometer spatial resolution on cross-sections printed (a...

Wastewater recovery is one of the most pressing contaminant-related subjects in textile industry. Many cleaning and techniques have been applied recent decades, from physical separation to chemical separation. This work reviews wastewater by focusing on natural or synthetic nanoclays order compare their capabilities. Presently, a wide variety are available that can adsorb substances dissolved w...

a bionanocomposite film was developed by nanoclay incorporation to chitosan films, using a solution casting method and the effects of nanoclay concentration (0.5, 1.0, and 3% w/w) on the physical and mechanical properties of the chitosan films were evaluated. moreover, x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy, and fourier transform infrared spectra (ftir) were used for studying mic...

the influence of nanoclay on the impact damage resistance of glass fiber–epoxy composites has been investigated using high-velocity repeated ice impact tests. the incorporation of nanoclay into epoxy enhances the impact resistance of the composites. the impact of ice is a realistic scenario for composite structures such as aircraft fuselages, wing skins and fan blades and it is not a completely...