The present project proposes to develop some aspects absent or less represented in the scientific literature in the polymer/clay gel domain.

The main objectives are following::

-preparation and characterization of synthetic polymer/clay/aqueous medium gels

-preparation and characterization of hydrogels based on N-t-butylacrylamide and clay

-preparation and characterization of natural polymer/clay/water gels

-development of some theoretical models to allow the description of the complex phenomena from the studied systems