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A kinetics-controlled coating method to construct 1D attapulgite @ amorphous titanium oxide nanocomposite with high electrorheological activity

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A new kind of one-dimension attapulgite (APG) @ titanium oxide nanoparticles was prepared via kinetics-controlled coating method. By simply altering the ammonia content and reaction time to control the kinetics of hydrolysis and condensation of tetra-n-butyl titanate (TBOT) in ethanol/ammonia mixtures, amorphous titanium oxide nanoparticles can adhere to the APG rods firmly, and the thickness of uniform amorphous titanium oxide shells can be adjusted from 0 to 40 nm. The obtained APG@ titanium oxide nanorods were applied as a new electrorheological (ER) fluid, which showed a promising ER activity. The yield stresses of the APG@ titanium oxide nanorod (40-nm shell thickness) ER fluid under electric field was 2.1 times of the granular titanium oxide ER fluid and 4.1 times of the APG ER fluid. And, the APG@ titanium oxide nanorod ER fluid also exhibited distinctly improved suspended stability.

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This research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21203225, 21003145, 11204325), the Ningbo Municipality (2009B21005), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LQ12A04005), the Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (2012A610128), and the Major Project technology Foundation of Zhejiang Provincial (2012C01034-3).

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    Zhenhua Li, Fenghua Liu, Gaojie Xu & Chengyi Chu

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    Zhenhua Li & Jialiang Zhang

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Li, Z., Liu, F., Xu, G. et al. A kinetics-controlled coating method to construct 1D attapulgite @ amorphous titanium oxide nanocomposite with high electrorheological activity. Colloid Polym Sci 292, 3327–3335 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-014-3384-8

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