Talc nanocrystals with unique properties produced within seconds
Friday, June 24, 2016 - 05:21
in Physics & Chemistry
It takes millions of years until the natural clay mineral talc is produced hydrothermally under bedrock, but artificial synthesis can make this process a lot shorter. Synthetic talc has many advantages such as high purity and tunable properties. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, French scientists introduce a laboratory synthesis of talc, which needs only seconds and produces nanocrystals with unique properties useful in many applications.