We wish to kindly thank Delphine Talbot and Aude Michel for their technical support,and Cedric Boissiere for the fruitful discussions.We equally acknowledge the local staffs of the ID02 and BM26 lines of the European Scientific Radiation Facility(ESRF)in Grenoble.
In this study,the flocculation and the subsequent decantation step of mixed suspensions of 10 nm-sizedγ-Fe_(2)O_(3) magnetic nanoparticles and 500 nm-sized beidellite clay platelets was investigated.This work may fin...