THE nature of the forces giving rise to the intra-crystalline swelling of montmorillonite has been several times discussed. The recent work of Bradley1 and of myself 2,3,4 on the swelling caused ...

Loss of interlayer water in Na montmorillonite is accompanied by a stepwise collapse ... resolved using short exposure times (one-second X-ray snapshots, GeniX High Flux XRD). We are using Museum ...

The main components were perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) ionomer dispersion and natural sodium montmorillonite ... the composite PFSA/MMT membranes. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was used ...