Clay – Water Relationships

Low-temperature Phases of Interfacial Water in Clay-water Systems

Clay settling in fresh and salt water

To gain insight into the process of sedimentation occurring when clay-laden estuaries and deltas entermarinewater, we perform laboratory experiments tomeasure the settling rate of initially unflocculated kaolin clay in fresh and salt water. In fresh water, sedimentation is a slow process with the clay particle concentration gradually decreasing nearly uniformly over hours, consistent with the t...

Thermodynamics of nitroaromatic compound adsorption from water by smectite clay.

Nitroaromatic compounds enter the environment through their use as explosives, pesticides, solvents, and synthetic intermediates in the manufacturing of dyes, perfumes, and drugs. Recent studies have found that many nitroaromatic compounds are strongly retained by smectites, especially K+-saturated smectites. Sorption occurs when nitroaromatic compounds replace water associated with the clay an...

Application of clay coating for water resistant corrugated packaging

Application of a delaminated kaolin clay base coat onto linerboard provides a barrier coating for a subsequently applied polymer top coat with potential advantages of increased paper stiffness, improved water resistance at reduced polymer overcoat. Motivated by coating material cost reduction, feasibility of the technique is demonstrated by applying a delaminated clay coating online followed by...

TiO2/Clay Minerals (Palygorskite/Halloysite) Nanocomposite Coatings for Water Disinfection

Microfibrous palygorskite and tubular halloysite clay mineral combined with nanocrystalline TiO2 are incorporating in the preparation of nanocomposite films on glass substrates via sol-gel route at 450C. The synthesis is employing nonionic surfactant molecule as pore directing agent along with acetic acid-based sol-gel route without addition of water molecules. Drying and thermal treatment of c...