T. Mandalia et al., LARGE INTERLAYER REPEAT DISTANCES OBSERVED FOR MONTMORILLONITES TREATED BY MIXED AL-FE AND FE PILLARING SOLUTIONS, Chemical communications, (19), 1998, pp. 2111-2112
Raw montmorillonites treated with mixed Al-Fe pillaring solutions, wit
h Fe/(Al + Fe) molar ratio between 0.1 and 1, and heated at 300 degree
s C lead to large d-spacings according to XRD which increase from 52 A
ngstrom for the sample with the lowest iron content to 76 Angstrom for
the pure Fe-treated clay sample.