This paper presents the preparation and mechanical properties of compatibilized compositionally graded Polyethylene/ low density polyethylene (LDPE)/ modified montmorillonite (MMT) nanocomposites prepared by solution and melt mixing techniques. Use of polyethylene glycol as compatibilizer improves compatibility of modified montmorillonite and low density polyethylene.  Comparisons between two t...

This work reports the behavior of montmorillonite–magnetite mixtures varying composition in aqueous dispersions and evaluates their adsorbing properties using a cationic organic pollutant, methylene blue (MB+), an anionic inorganic arsenate (As(V)), as species. The effects presence montmorillonite on As(V) adsorption by magnetite MB+ clay were specially addressed. simple mixture dispersion with...

NIST RESEARCH SHOWS NANOCOMPOSITE CAN TAKE THE HEAT Remember the scene in “The Graduate” when a wouldbe mentor wraps his arm around young Benjamin and says, “I’ve got just one word for you . . . Are you listening? . . . Plastics!” If that film were being made in 1997, that one word might be nanocomposites. Nanocomposites are super plastics—compounds in which about 1 nm size particles of montmor...

A montmorillonite from Wyoming-USA was used to prepare an organo-clay complex, named 2-thiazoline-2-thiol-hexadecyltrimethylammonium-clay (TZT-HDTA-clay), for the purpose of the selective adsorption of the heavy metals ions and possible use as a chemically modified carbon paste electrode (CMCPE). Adsorption isotherms of Hg2+, Pb2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ from aqueous solutions as a function of th...

Given a montmorillonite clay at high porosity and saturated by monovalent counterions, the particle level responses of the clay to different external loadings are investigated. As analytical solutions are not possible for complex arrangements of particles, computational micromechanical models are employed (based on solution of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations) using the finite element method...

Seven current methods of protein quantitation, Bradford (standard, micro, and 590/450 nm ratio), Lowry, bicinchoninic acid (BCA), UV spectrophotometry at 280 nm, and Quant-iT fluorescence-based determination, were compared with regard to their susceptibility to interferences due to the presence of suspended and not easily detectable clay particles. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and Na-Wyoming mont...

The adsorption of bisphenol A into untreated montmorillonite clay, doped titanium composite and cationic polymer modified tripartite magnetic was investigated under different conditions. property the adsorbent ascertained by action external field on materials when dispersed in aqueous media. XRD results for unmodified adsorbents showed that interlayer spacing clay material increases due to inte...

wastewater treatment and re-use of industrial process water are critical issues for the developmentof human activities and environment conservation. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the degradationof organic pollutants taking phenol as the model compound over aluminium pillared montmorillonite and therare earth exchanged analogues, underlining the use of environ friendly clay cataly...

wastewater treatment and re-use of industrial process water are critical issues for the developmentof human activities and environment conservation. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the degradationof organic pollutants taking phenol as the model compound over aluminium pillared montmorillonite and therare earth exchanged analogues, underlining the use of environ friendly clay cataly...