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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"laponite RD"”.
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Nonlinear Optically Active Ionically Self-Assembled Monolayer Thin Films of Organic Polymers Intercalated with an Inorganic Hectorite, Laponite RD
… structure required for second order nonlinear optical responses. UV/Vis spectroscopy and ellipsometry were used as probes to monitor film growth for upto 25 deposition cycles. Exceptionally homogeneous films were obtained with regular film growth for up to the 25 cycles …
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PMMA Clay Nanocomposites
… of clay in the PCN was systematically varied in order to understand the effect of clay on the physical properties of the resulting PCNs. However, unexpectedly it was found that the weight fraction of clay had a dramatic impact upon the molecular weight of the polymer matrix and a relationship …
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Interlamellar modification of smectite clays
… In particular, the synthetic hectorite clay, laponite, is employed to produce paper which is used in automated drawing offices where electro graphic printing is common. The primary objective of this thesis was to modify smectite clays, particularly laponite, to achieve enhanced conductivity. …
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An experimental method for visualizing undrained shearing failure in a transparent soft clay surrogate
… techniques in a soft clay surrogate, Laponite RD, at shallow depths with minimal boundary effects. The thesis developed a procedure for tracking deformation in Laponite RD as a soft clay surrogate for the miniature shear vane and the T-bar, ball, and cone penetrometers and provided the …
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A Hydrodynamic Method for Measuring Aqueous Nanoparticle Surface Interactions
… methods presented uses a model nanoparticle, Laponite-RD (LRD). LRD was the proposed nanoparticle used to model the system and technique because of its size, 25 nm in diameter. The solutes selected to model for these studies were chosen because they are also environmentally important. …
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A Nacreous Self-Assembled Nanolaminate for Corrosion Resistance on 2024-Al Alloy
… made of a polyamide salt and a synthetic clay, Laponite RD®, demonstrated significant corrosion resistance on 2024-T3 Al alloys after 168 hours of salt spray testing. The ISAM films offered corrosion protection only if there was a significant layer of underlying surface oxide present, however. …
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Structural Analysis of Cylindrical Particles by Small Angle X-ray Scattering
… systems with cylinder-shaped particles: (1) Laponite particles in aqueous solutions, (2) Poly(carbon suboxide) particles in binary water/DMF solutions, and (3) Suprastructural aggregates of coil-ring-coil block copolymers in cyclohexane, have been studied by SAXS performing either a …