Abstract
Natural clay minerals are ideal nanofillers for polymer materials and have been attracted tremendous research and development interests in the past decade. The manufacture of clay nanofillers relies largely on the exfoliation of clay particle into individual clay platelets. Thus, understanding the interlayer swelling of clay minerals upon the adsorption of surfactants is important to the fabrication and design of polymer nanocomposites. This paper reports our recent experimental and theoretical studies on a variety of organoclays that show a linear relationship between the increase of d-spacing and the mass ratio between organic and clay.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2239-2243 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Key Engineering Materials |
| Volume | 353-358 |
| Issue number | PART 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Nov 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Asian Pacific Conference for Fracture and Strength (APCFS'06) - Sanya, Hainan Island, China Duration: 22 Nov 2006 → 25 Nov 2006 |
Keywords
- Interlayer swelling
- Molecular simulation
- Nanocomposite
- Organoclay