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POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 224, Issue -, Pages 241-246Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.02.059
Keywords
Crystal structure; Thermal expansion; X-ray diffraction; Differential thermal analysis
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- National Science and Technology Support Program of China [2008BAE601307]
- National Natural Science Foundations of China [41172053]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2011YYL155]
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Three kinds of salt solutions including NaCl, CaCl2 and MgCl2, were used to modify the expansion of vermiculite. X-ray diffraction results indicate that vermiculites have been successfully modified by salt solutions. The d((002)) reflection spacings of Na-vermiculite, Ca-vermiculite and Mg-vermiculite corresponding to different salt solution modifications are 1.223 nm, 1.474 nm and 1.448 nm, respectively. Expansion ratio experiment results show that the as-obtained vermiculite modified by NaCl solution can lower the beginning expansion temperature, while the vermiculites modified by CaCl2 and MgCl2 solutions can show high expansion ratio. The combined thermogravimetric-differential thermal analysis and infrared spectroscopy analysis reveal that electrostatic attraction force between interlayer cations and interlayer water plays the key factor in the expansion ratio of vermiculite. Compared with Ca and Mg cations, the electrostatic attraction force between Na cation and interlayer water is weak and Na-vermiculite has less interlayer water than that of Ca-vermiculite and Mg-vermiculite. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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