Clay materials are widely used in sheet-type platforms with peculiar characteristics and diverse applications. However, due to some disadvantages—such as weak mechanical strength low reactivity—they often subjected modifications. Such tuning leads better output than pure clay materials. This review describes of the hybrids form nanocomposites carbon nanomaterials. Generally, graphene oxide or i...

Sediments within the Okinawa back-arc basin overlay a subsurface hydrothermal network, creating intense temperature gradients with sediment depth and potential limits for microbial diversity. We investigated taxonomic changes across 45 m of recovered core with a temperature gradient of 3°C/m from the dynamic Iheya North Hydrothermal System. The interval transitions sharply from low-temperature ...

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...

The potential for lettuce field-coring harvesting knives to cross-contaminate lettuce heads with pathogens was evaluated. Rings and blades of the harvest knives artificially contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC), were used to core three successive heads of iceberg lettuce. The coring rings and blades were inoculated by dipping into soils containing EHEC at concentration ranges of 1-...

The mechanical properties of non-vulcanized natural rubber and dialyzed natural rubber-clay nanocomposites have been studied by uniaxial deformations to evaluate the reinforcement efficiency of the clay. We show that while non-rubber molecules contribute to auto-reinforcement, removal of these molecules improves significantly the performance of clay as reinforcement agent. These mechanical prop...

[1] To understand the aqueous history of Mars, it is critical to constrain the alteration mineralogy of the Martian surface. Previously published analyses of thermal infrared (l = 6–25 mm) remote sensing data of Mars suggest that dark regions have 15–20% clay minerals. However, near-infrared (l = 1–3 mm) spectral results generally do not identify widespread clay minerals. Thermal infrared detec...