
Clay Nanoparticles
Properties and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Assesses the advantages of using nanoclays instead of conventional clay materials in product design
- Describes the major characterization techniques – both experimental and computational – for nanoclays
- Explores new fabrication techniques based on pristine and modified clay nanoparticles that are being used both in materials science and biotechnology
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I Properties of clay nanoparticles
1. Geological overview of clay nanoparticles
CRISTINA VILLANOVA-DE-BENAVENT2. Structural characterization of clay systems by small-angle scattering
LEONARDO CHIAPPISI3. Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs)/polymer nanocomposites: thermal degradation and flame retardancy
HENRI VAHABI, RODOLPHE SONNIER, AURÉLIE TAGUET,
BELKACEM OTAZAGHINE, MOHAMMAD REZA SAEB AND GÜNTER BEYER4. Colloidal stability and self-assembling behavior of nanoclays
LORENZO LISUZZO, GIUSEPPE CAVALLARO, FILIPPO PARISI, SERENA RIELA,
STEFANA MILIOTO AND GIUSEPPE LAZZARA5. Organophilic nature of nanoclay
KAUSIK DANA AND MADHUCHHANDA SARKAR6. Computational modeling of nanoclays
EVA SCHOLTZOVÁPart II Technological applications of clay nanoparticles
7. Flame retardant potential of clay nanoparticles
AYESHA KAUSAR8. Nanoclays in drug delivery systems
RAQUEL DE MELO BARBOSA, MARIANNA ARAÚJO FERREIRA, LYGHIA MARIA
ARAÚJO MEIRELLES, NICOLE ZORATO AND FERNANDA NERVO RAFFIN9. Decontamination application of nanoclays
HUIJUAN GUAN AND YAFEI ZHAO10. Clays in cement production from the nanoscale
LIDIA NATALIA TRUSILEWICZ11. Improving the thermal, termite resistance and anti-wetting properties of tropical timber using a polymethyl acrylate/ halloysite coating
NISHAL ASHVIN SOLANKI, POORIA PASBAKHSH AND ALI RASHIDI12. Halloysite nanoclay for development of heterogeneous
catalysts
SAMAHE SADJADI13. Covalently modified nanoclays: synthesis, properties and
applications
MARINA MASSARO, GIUSEPPE CAVALLARO, GIUSEPPE LAZZARA AND
SERENA RIELA
Product details
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2020
- Published: February 15, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128167847
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128167830