This book focuses on polymer-clay nanocomposite materials. It introduces readers to polymers, clays, and organo-clay and discusses the nature of interparticle interactions and physical adsorption, which are predominant in the synthesis of organo-clay; conversion of clay to organo-clay; interactions between functional groups in the interlayer region

Ahmet Gurses is lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education, Ataturk University, Turkey. He received his master's degree and doctorate in physical chemistry from Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, Ataturk University. In 1993, he became an associate professor of physical chemistry at the university. Prof. Gurses is also a member of the Turkish Chemistry Association. His fields of interest are physical chemistry as well as surface chemistry, polymer chemistry, and polymer-clay nanocomposites.