The increase of surface area of a Brazilian palygorskite clay activated with sulfuric acid solutions using a factorial design

Palygorskite is fibrous clay in which the structural tetrahedral and octahedral layers are organized in a way that structural channels are formed, leading to high surface area. However, impurities inside the channels and aggregated ones considerably reduce the available area. In order to increase th...

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Main Authors: R. N. Oliveira, W. Acchar, G. D. A. Soares, L. S. Barreto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM); Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica (ABC); Associação Brasileira de Polímeros (ABPol) 2013-05-01
Series:Materials Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392013000400031&tlng=en