The ever-growing application of clays in nanotechnology rests on fundamental principles of colloid chemistry. They make soils as nature’s great electrostatic chemical reactor. Highly anisotropic and ...

Silicon oxides such as SiO 2 are the most abundant component of the earth’s crust. They can be found in nature in crystalline form and are industrially manufactured in many forms, including colloidal ...

The “tail” of a particle size distribution references the particles that are several standard deviations removed from the mean of the standard Gaussian distribution. Figure 1 demonstrates the ...