Organic-inorganic hybrid materials

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe reversed-phase HPLC packings based on hybrid particles and demonstrate the packing's retention and selectivity characteristics, and they also show that these media have long lifetimes at elevated temperatures under conditions at which conventional bonded silica fails rapidly.

TL;DR: Clay minerals are silicates that, due to their unique characteristics (layer or fibrous structures, ion exchange capacity, variability in chemical composition and in electrical charge of particles, etc.), present special physicochemical behaviors that determine their surface properties and, therefore, their interactions with organic substances.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of polymer and biopolymer nanocomposites based on sepiolite and palygorskite fibrous clay minerals is presented, with the aim to call the attention of clay scientists and engineers to the numerous opportunities that this type of new materials offers.