Volume 4: Formation and Properties of Clay-Polymer Complexes, 2nd Edition

Key Features

* describes the important development in clay-polymer nanocomposites
* contains new figures and diagrams
* extenisve revision of the previous edition

Description

This book provides a comprehensive account of the reactions between clay minerals and organic polymers. The book opens with a discussion of the structures of common clay minerals, clays colloid chemistry, and the behaviour of organic polymers at clay surfaces. This is followed by a systematic treatment of complex formation between clay minerals and various classes of synthetic and naturally occurring polymers, a description of the properties of the resulting complexes and, wherever appropriate, their practical applications. The book will have a new separate chapter on clay-polymer nanocomposites. Each chapter is written as a self-contained review paper, giving a list of reference to the original literature.

Readership

clay mineralogists, materials engineers, polymer chemists, university teacher and graduate students in chemical, colloid, materials and soil sciences.

Formation and Properties of Clay-Polymer Complexes, 2nd Edition

Part I : Clay Minerals and Polymer Adsorption
Chapter 1-The clay minerals
Chapter 2-Polymer behaviour at clay and solid surfaces

Part II : Interactions of Clay Minerals with Synthetic Polymers
Chapter 3-Uncharged (non-Ionic) polymers
Chapter 4-Negatively charged polymers (polyanions)
Chapter 5-Positively charged polymers (polycations)
Chapter 6-Some practical applications of the clay-polymer interaction
Chapter 7-Polymer-clay nanocomposites

Part III : Interactions of Clay Minerals with Naturally Occurring Polymers
Chapter 8-Proteins and enzymes
Chapter 9-Nucleic acids
Chapter 10-Viruses and bacteriophages
Chapter 11-Polysaccharides
Chapter 12-Humic substances