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Deformation Measurements on Thin Clay Tactoids
Author(s) -
Kunz Daniel A.,
Max Eva,
Weinkamer Richard,
Lunkenbein Thomas,
Breu Josef,
Fery Andreas
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.200801710
Subject(s) - materials science , stacking , composite material , deformation (meteorology) , atomic force microscopy , bending , microscopy , nanotechnology , optics , nuclear magnetic resonance , physics
Applying a synthetic fluorohectorite that shows giant lateral extensions, a microscopic bending test is performed using atomic force microscopy (see image). Due to the significantly weaker bonding strength between neighboring lamellae along the stacking direction, the C 33 elastic constant of synthetic Na 0.5 ‐fluorohectorite is found to be lower than those reported for micas, which falls within the expected trend.