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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 330, Issue 2, Pages 367-373Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2008.10.054
Keywords
Kaolinite; Intercalation; Urea; Mechanochemical treatment
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- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund [OTKA K62175]
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Intercalation compounds of low- and high-defect kaolinites have been prepared by direct reaction with urea aqueous solution as well as by co-grinding with urea in the absence of water (mechanochemical intercalation). The complexes formed were studied by X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, DRIFT spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. In aqueous solution the degree of intercalation for the low- and high-defect kaolinites was found to be 77 and 65%, respectively. With mechanochemical intercalation, both kaolinites were almost fully expanded after I h of grinding. Based on the results of DRIFT spectroscopy, a structural model for the bonding of urea to the siloxane surface is proposed. The kaolinite-urea intercalation compounds produced by mechanochemical intercalation have crystallite sizes lower than those obtained by the aqueous solution method. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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