Montmorillonite -based

Montmorillonite-based palladium catalysts are active in the hydrogenation of styrene to ethylbenzene under mild conditions (25 °C, 1 atmosphere H2). 

Anirudhan, T. S., Divya, P. L., Nima, J. (2013). Silylated montmorillonite based molecularly imprinted polymer for the selective binding and controlled release of thiamine hydrochloride, ReactFunct ol m., 73, 1144-1155. 

The present chapter is an attempt at conceptual synthesis concerning smectite-water systems, designed to help sharpen the experimental issues that should be addressed in the next generation of laboratory investigations. The focus of our discussion is on Li-, Na-, and K-montmorillonite, based on the results of our previous simulation studies carried out separately for these homoionic smectites (16-18). The emphasis in our present analysis is on comparison with respect to the type of interlayer cation, in order to respond more definitively to the question of whether the aqueous phases in low-order montmorillonite hydrates are essentially two-dimensional ionic solutions (7, 2). 

Inan, G. Patra, P.K. Kim, Y.K. Warner, S.B. Flame retardancy of laponite- and montmorillonite-based nylon 6 nanocomposites continuous nanophase and nanos-tructured materials. MRS Proc. 2004, 788L8.46. 

In high-T epoxy thermosets, neither intercalated nor exfoliated nanosilicates lead to an improvement in the tensile stress at break. " However, even brittle epoxy matrices exhibit an increase in Young s modulus, and the stress intensity factor causes ic, a measure of the energy dissipation at a crack tip during fracture, to increase. This effect appears generally to be more pronounced for exfoliated structures than for intercalated ones. Becker et al. investigated the properties of octadecylammonium-modified montmorillonite-based nanocomposites in di-, tri-, and tetrafimctional epoxy. They observed an increase in Tic and reduced Tg compared to neat epoxy for all the systems. The reduction in Tg is... 

Cecilia, J., Garcia-Sancho, C., and Franco, F. (2013) Montmorillonite based porous clay heterostrucfores influence of Zr in the structure and acidic properties. Microporous Mesoporous Mater, 176, 95-102. 

M. (2009) Montmorillonite-based porous clay heterostructures (PCHs) intercalated with silica-titania pillars synthesis and characterization./. Solid State Chem., 182, 1094-1104. 

Materials. The fillers utilized inelude a eommercially available eom stareh, Argo Stareh, distributed by ACH Food Companies, in blend preparation and a Nanocor Nanomer montmorillonite based elay in nanoeomposites. The matrix material used in blends was high-density polyethylene (HDPE) from Equistar Chemieals (Petrothene LM6007). For the nanoeomposites, PCL from Aldrich Chemical was the matrix. 

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