this review reports recent advances in the field of polymer–layered silicate nano composites. thesematerials have attracted both academic and industrial attention because they exhibit dramaticimprovement in properties at very low filler contents. herein, the structure, preparation andproperties of polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites are discussed in general, and finally the effectof clay na...

Smectite clays are hydrated layer silicates that, like micas, occur naturally in abundance. Importantly, they have readily modifiable interlayer spaces that provide excellent sites for nanochemistry. Vermiculite is one such smectite clay and in the presence of small chain-length alkyl-NH(3)Cl ions forms sensitive, 1-D ordered model clay systems with expandable nano-pore inter-layer regions. The...

abstract: when pesticides are present in high concentrations in the environment causing ‎irreparable, metabolic, physiologic and structural damage on the organisms. diazinon and ‎deltamethrin are of the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the northern iran that can ‎enter aquatic ecosystems. anatropous fishes like kutum have most reactions with pollutants ‎because of their spawning in t...

This paper presents initial development of polymer nanocomposites (PNC) material for rapid manufacturing (RM) application. PNC materials containing a polyamide (PA) and nano particles (5wt%) were produced by solution blending with the aim to improve the mechanical properties. Commercial polyamide 6 (PA6) was dissolved in formic acid (HCO2H) together with two different types of nano particle mat...

Quantify the kinetics of all competing product-formation pathways, over a range of conditions relevant to groundwater remediation, using well-mixed batch reactors and analysis primarily by chromatography. At OGI, batch experiments were conducted on Fe(0) systems (both Fisher Electrolytic and Nano-sized iron). The experiments were done with and without buffer. The buffered experiments tried to c...

In the present work, a novel methodology was developed for fabrication of clay-based nano pigments with enhanced thermal stability and used further as colorant to prepare polymeric membranes. Initially, batch extraction studies were performed analyze maximum adsorption Safranin O (SO) dye onto pristine montmorillonite (Mt) organo (OMt) by varying different parameters like pH, contact time, conc...

This work investigates nano-fibrillated cellulose (NFC) as a component in mineral pigment paper coating. In this work, bleached Eucalyptus pulp was pretreated by TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperdinyloxy)-mediated oxidation. The oxidized pulp was then isolated to obtain NFC by sonication. Aqueous coating colors consisting of calcium carbonate, clay, carboxylated butadiene-styrene latex, additi...