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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2005
Ying Liang, Zurich, IL (US);
Tie Lan, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Scott Omachinski, Palatine, IL (US);
AMCOL International Corp., Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a nanocomposite composition comprising forming an intercalating composition comprising 1% to about 90% by weight of a purified sodium smectite clay that contains at least 75% Naions based on the total interlayer exchangeable cations, that has been intercalated and thereby swollen sufficiently for polyamide monomer or oligomer intercalation, with a protonated organic, non-carboxylic acid moiety-containing onium ion swelling agent; and about 10% to about 99% of a lactam ring-containing monomer or oligomer, and heating the intercalating composition to a temperature above the melting point of the lactam to open the lactam ring and polymerize the lactam to form the polyamide while in contact with the smectite clay.