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Characterisation of pillared clays by contrast-matching small-angle neutron scattering
Th A Steriotis1, K L Stefanopoulos, U Keiderling
1NCSR DEMOKRITOS, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, 153 10 Athens, Greece. tster@chem.demokritos.gr
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
The contrast-matching SANS technique has been utilised to determine inter-pillar distances (and surface texture) in montmorillonite and beidellite pillared smectite clays; they lie in the range 1.40-1.80 nm, reflecting different inter-pillar orderings.