Such cross-study using XRD and melt polymer rheology was able to unravel the attritive or plastizicing role of the organoclay as function of the basal spacing expansion in the intermixed polymer structure,
and to respond whether LDH interleaved platelets were of interest for polar and non-polar polymer and finally to predictively monitor the interfacial attrition by the alkyl chain length of the surfactant molecule tethered to the LDH platelets.