Cluster, glass, and gel formation and viscoelastic phase separation in aqueous clay suspensions

Langmuir

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3570-3580

  Shalkevich, Andrey ^a   Stradner, Anna ^a   Bhat, Suresh Kumar ^a,b   Mulle, François ^a,c   Schurtenberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; GELATION; IONIC STRENGTH; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; RHEOLOGY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOELASTICITY;

AQUEOUS CLAY SUSPENSIONS; GEL FORMATION; SODIUM CLOISITE (CNA);

GLASS;

EID: 34147199619     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la062996i     Document Type: Article

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