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Calcium Carbonate Formation in the Presence of Biopolymeric Additives
Published on: May 14, 2019
Simulation-assisted evidence for the existence of two stable kaolinite/potassium acetate intercalate complexes
Eva Makó1, Gábor Rutkai, Tamás Kristóf
1Institute for Materials Engineering, University of Pannonia, P.O. Box 158, H-8201 Veszprém, Hungary.
Abstract:
Recent molecular simulation findings with several kaolinite intercalate complexes raised the question of the existence of more than one stable state, which has not been confirmed by experimental observations yet. Kaolinite/potassium acetate intercalate complexes were synthesized and examined by X-ray diffraction, and a molecular simulation study was performed for the system. Consistent with the suggestion from the simulations, an additional stable basal spacing was found experimentally at d(001)=1.168nm besides the well-known one at d(001)=1.403nm.
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