X-ray phase analysis of clays is difficult because these materials generally consist of a mixture of different phases, i.e., mixed-layer minerals, individual clay minerals (non mixed-layer), and associated minerals, such as calcite and quartz. The analysis requires knowledge that presently is incorporated in a computer-based expert system. This expert system is capable of a) identification of a...

The Langmuir-Schaefer (LS) method has been investigated as a means to control the structure of hybrid organoclay thin films consisting of montmorillonite and dimethyldioctadecylammonium (DODA) cations. We observed a significant modification of the compression isotherms as a function of clay mineral concentration in the subphase, implying clay interaction with the alkylammonium monolayer. For a ...

The structure and features of surfaces of clay minerals (kaolin, montmorillonite, etc) have an important scientific and practical value. On the surface the interrelation of processes at electronic, atomic and molecular levels is realized. Availability of mineral surface to external influences opens wide scientific and technical opportunities of use of the surface phenomena, so the research of c...

polymer-clay nanocomposite coatings have attracted much attention because of impressive enhancements of coating properties. in this research, both commercially available and isophoronediamine-modified montmorillonite clays were used to obtain epoxy-clay nanocomposite coatings. these nanocomposite materials with different clay loadings in the form of coatings were applied to cold-rolled steel (c...

Activated sericite was prepared by thermal modification, acid activation and sodium modification, and it was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), N₂ adsorption test, thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results indicated that the crystallinity of raw sericite decrea...

Polypropylene owing to its apolar nature suffers from compatibility problems with clay, which is partially polar even after the surface modification with alkyl ammonium ions. To circumvent this limitation, polypropylene nanocomposites have been synthesized by using two methodologies: a) partial polarization of the matrix by the addition of low molecular weight compatibilizer which owing to its ...