Expansion of orderly stacked metakaolinite layers and order destruction using a kaolinite-tetraphenylphosphonium chloride intercalation compound

Deposition of silver nanoparticles on nanoscroll-supported inorganic solid using incompletely rolled-up kaolinite

Nanoscroll-supported platy particles were prepared by incomplete rolling-up of kaolinite layers; when the rolling-up of the kaolinite layer followed by its exfoliation incompletely proceeds, kaolinite nanoscrolls were found at the edge of kaolinite platy particles. To assess the support property of these nanoscroll-supported platy particles, when the deposition of Ag nanoparticles was conducted, these nanoparticles were present on the surface of platy particles and in the tubular interior of nanoscrolls at the edge of platy particles but absent on the surface of ordinal kaolinites, as revealed by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. These results indicated the successful formation and support property of nanoscroll-supported platy particles.

Effects of kaolinite layer expansion and impurities on the solid-state reaction of kaolinite

Expanded kaolinite without impurities was found to serve as a suitable raw material for the rapid formation of metastable CaAl₂Si₂O₈ with the suppression of byproduct formation. This was accomplished based on the solid-state reaction of the kaolinite with calcium carbonate promoted by mechanical grinding.