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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Structural Study of Nano-Clay and Its Effectiveness in Radiation Protection against X-rays.

Elfahem Sakher, Billel Smili, Mohamed Bououdina, Stefano Bellucci

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Elfahem SakherLaboratory of Saharan Natural Resources, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Adrar, National Highway No. 06, Adrar 01000, Algeria.ORCID 0000-0002-0235-2873
Billel SmiliLaboratory of Energy Environment and Information System (LEEIS), Department of Material Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Adrar, National Highway No. 06. Adrar 01000, Algeria.ORCID 0000-0001-9338-6149
Mohamed BououdinaDepartment of Mathematics and Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8770-7129
Stefano BellucciINFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0326-6368
Ahmed Draia University · DZIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati · ITPrince Sultan University · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the increasing applications of nuclear technology, radiation protection has become very important especially for the environment and the personnel close to radiation sources. Natural clays can be used potentially for shielding the X-ray radiations. In this study, the correlation between structural parameters and radiation shielding performance of natural clay extracted from Algerian Sahara (Adrar, Reggan, and Timimoune) was investigated. Phase composition and structural parameters (lattice parameters, average crystallite size, and microstrain) were determined by the Rietveld refinements of X-ray diffraction patterns in the frame of HighScore Plus software. The obtained results showed that the studied clays are nanocrystalline (nano-clay) since the calculated crystallite size was ≈3 nm for the feldspar phase. FTIR spectra confirmed the presence of all phases already detected by XRD analysis besides Biotite (around the band at 3558 cm

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FTIRnano-claysradiation protectionradiation shieldingRietveld analysisX-ray diffraction

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PMID35889557
PMCPMC9322616
OpenAlexW4284882083

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