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Item Restricted A multi-analytical study of physical behaviour in clay hydrogel media(University of leeds, 2023-10-10) Alluqmani, Hind; Kee, Terence P.Hydrogels have many properties which make them suitable for biomedical applications. These properties can be improved by the integration of inorganic ordered systems, in particular clays, into the gels. Amongst the class of layered clay minerals, synthetic materials such as the laponites have been found especially valuable as thixotropic gel additives and this project focuses on this class of gel materials. This project presents pa multi-analytical study of two grades of laponite (RD -XLG) clay and cation-modified laponite (RD & XLG) hydrogels has been performed to probe features of structural and visco-elastic behavior. The specific context to this work lies within the potential role of geologically relevant hydrogels, and laponite hydrogels in particular, to abiogenesis, the emergence of biological organisms on Earth. Wherever possible, the results have been related to this context.10 0