The development of urban cities increases the amount of construction and demolition waste, such as ceramic materials, mainly clay bricks, and consequently, generates cost for the management and environmental disposal due ...

Natural rubber/organophilic clay ananocomposites were prepared and characterized. A brown bentonite from Paraiba's State Btazil waste modified with a sodium salt and treated with quaternary ammonium salt hexadecyltrimethyl ...

This work aims to incorporate the BofWhite Clay, from Boa Vista, State, Brazil, as natural nanofiller in Ehylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) and flexible films. Nanocomposite was obtained using a twin-screw extruder, ...

This paper describes the characterization of natural Patagonian clay (ARC), composed mainly of montmorillonite and illite, and two modifications: one with alga Codium fragile (ARC-ALG) and other ironpillared (ARC-PIL), as ...