Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 33, Issue 19, Pages 4816-4822Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01008
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 840]
- BYK Chemie GmbH
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
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Because of strong Coulomb interactions, the delamination of charged layered materials becomes progressively more difficult with increasing charge density. For instance, highly charged sodium fluorohectorite (Na0.6Mg2.4Li0.6Si4O10F2, Na-Hec) cannot be delaminated directly by osmotic swelling in water because its layer charge exceeds the established limit for osmotic swelling of 0.55 per formula unit Si4O10F2. Quite surprisingly, we found that this hectorite at the border of the smectite and vermiculite group can, however, be utterly delaminated into 1-nm-thick platelets with a high aspect ratio (24 000) in a two-step process. The hectorite is first converted by partial ion exchange into a one dimensionally ordered, interstratified heterostructure with strictly alternating Na+ and n-butylammonium (C4) interlayers. This heterostructure then spontaneously delaminates into uniform single layers upon immersion in water whereas neither of the homoionic phases (Na-Hec and C4-Hec) swells osmotically. The delamination of more highly charged synthetic layered silicates is a key step to push the aspect ratio beyond the current limits.
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