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ELEMENTS
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 89-92Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.5.2.89
Keywords
smectite; bentonite; layer charge; molecular engineering; nanocomposites
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Smectites are the main components of bentonites; their characteristics define the remarkable range for their uses in industry and technology. Their application depends on their fundamental properties, namely, their atomic structure with a rather flexible crystal lattice, their variable chemical composition, their particle size, and their morphology. The interlayer region of smectites is a favorable target for molecular engineering to design organic and inorganic hybrid materials, including smectite-polymernanocomposites and pillared complexes of smectite-metal oxides.
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