Organo-clay Complexes and Interactions

680 pages, Illustrated  ISBN 0824705866      £159.00

This book presents current techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance, differential thermal analysis and thermogravimetry, visible spectroscopy, and infrared and thermal-infrared spectroscopy for the analysis of fine structures in organo-clay complexes. It will be of interest to physical, surface, colloid, inorganic, organic, medicinal, agricultural, and analytical chemists and biochemists; environmental, petroleum, and chemical engineers; biotechnologists; and advanced students in these disciplines.

Contents

• Structure and surface acidity of clay minerals;
• introduction to organo-clay complexes and interactions;
• interactions of vermiculites with organic compounds;
• organophilicity and hydrophobicity of organo-clays;
• adsorption of organic cations on clays - experimental results and modelling;
• nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy;
• thermal analysis of organo-clay complexes;
• IR-spectroscopy and thermo-IR-spectroscopy in the study of the fine structure of organo-clay complexes;
• staining of clay minerals and visible-absorption spectroscopy of dye-dye complexes;
• clay catalysis in reactions of organic matter;
• organo-materials and organo-clay interactions and the origin of life on Earth.