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Alignment of layered double hydroxide platelets

Zhang, Y; Evans, JRG; (2012) Alignment of layered double hydroxide platelets. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects , 408 71 - 78. 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.05.033. Green open access

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Abstract

A new generation of ordered, mineral-reinforced polymer nanocomposites is emerging for which assembly of platelets into planar-random array provides the reinforcement structure. Motivated by this goal, Co–Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) tactoids (diameter ∼3 μm, thickness ∼30 nm) were synthesized and their colloidal stability in water as a function of pH was characterized by sedimentation and zeta-potential measurements. The tactoids in both stable and unstable suspensions assembled into sheet materials with a layered planar random arrangement during filtration presenting a putative reinforcement structure. Exfoliated nanosheets, characterized by the disappearance of diffraction peaks in XRD patterns and by AFM, were also assembled and produced a region of 10 μm next to the filtration membrane which was highly ordered but in which the order reduced at further distances because of higher entropic undulation of very thin platelets at much reduced filtration rates. Reassembly of these exfoliated platelets confirmed that more ordered parallel structures are obtained with tactoids. Such structures resemble that of nacre and could serve as reinforcements for subsequent infiltration by matrix resins in the same way that carbon fibre woven mat is prepared for fibre reinforced polymers.

Type: Article
Title: Alignment of layered double hydroxide platelets
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.05.033
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.05.033
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Layered double hydroxide, Ordered nanocomposite, Biomimetic, Self-assembly
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1385469
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