A good paint applies smoothly under a brush, doesn’t drip from a roller, and levels without sagging on a vertical wall before it dries. Meeting all three …
Read moreThe first article on this site covering nanoclays in drilling fluids gave an overview of why clay is used in mud systems. This article goes deeper — for …
Read moreRubber compounders have more than a century of experience with particulate reinforcement — carbon black, silica, and various mineral fillers are the backbone of …
Read moreThe same structural features that make nanoclays useful for thickening coatings and reinforcing polymers — large surface area, surface charge, interlayer space …
Read moreClay has been applied to skin for thousands of years. What’s changed is that we now understand what it’s doing at the molecular level, and …
Read moreFlame retardancy is one of the most commercially important applications of nanoclay in polymer composites — and one of the most misunderstood. The …
Read moreWalk into any coatings laboratory and ask about rheology modifiers and someone will mention nanoclay within the first few minutes. It’s been part of the …
Read moreIf you’ve ever wondered why some food packaging keeps contents fresh for months while similar-looking packaging fails in weeks, part of the answer is …
Read moreThe academic literature on nanoclay applications runs to tens of thousands of papers. Most of them describe laboratory-scale experiments that never reached …
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