<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The use of porous materials is enjoying tremendous popularity and attention of the advance scientific communities due to their excellent adsorptive and catalytic activities. Clays are one of the most important candidates in the porous community which shows the above mentioned activities after modifing with a different intercalating agent. The paper is focused on the infiuence of some inorganic intercalating agents (NaOH) on the morphology of the variously intercalated clay samples. The alkali metal was used as the inorganic intercalating agent. The effect of intercalation temperature, intercalation agent concentration and intercalation time on the pre-baked clay morphology were also part of the study. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) study was performed to evaluate the morphological changes of the resultant intercalates. Different morphological properties were improved significantly in the case of the inorganically modified clay samples. Thus, such intercalations are suggested to be effective if the clays under study are to be used for different industrial process at elevated conditions.</p></abstract>

The use of porous materials is enjoying tremendous popularity and attention of the advance scientific communities due to their excellent adsorptive and catalytic activities. Clays are one of the most important candidates in the porous community which shows the above mentioned activities after modifing with a different intercalating agent. The paper is focused on the infiuence of some inorganic intercalating agents (NaOH) on the morphology of the variously intercalated clay samples. The alkali metal was used as the inorganic intercalating agent. The effect of intercalation temperature, intercalation agent concentration and intercalation time on the pre-baked clay morphology were also part of the study. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) study was performed to evaluate the morphological changes of the resultant intercalates. Different morphological properties were improved significantly in the case of the inorganically modified clay samples. Thus, such intercalations are suggested to be effective if the clays under study are to be used for different industrial process at elevated conditions.

Morphological Evaluation of Variously Intercalated Pre-baked Clay

University of Peshawar, Institute of Chemical Sciences, KPK, Pakistan

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

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The use of porous materials is enjoying tremendous popularity and attention of the advance scientific communities due to their excellent adsorptive and...

Morphological Evaluation of Variously Intercalated Pre-baked Clay

Published Online: Jun 26, 2014

Page range: 5 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2014-0022

Keywords
clay, alkali metal intercalation, inorganic modifier, scanning electron microscopy

© 2014 Hameed Ullah and Ahmad Imtiaz

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Morphological Evaluation of Variously Intercalated Pre-baked Clay

Published Online: Jun 26, 2014

Page range: 5 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2014-0022

Keywordsclay, alkali metal intercalation, inorganic modifier, scanning electron microscopy

© 2014 Hameed Ullah and Ahmad Imtiaz

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
clay, alkali metal intercalation, inorganic modifier, scanning electron microscopy