Development of Silver Ion Doped Antibacterial Clays and Investigation of Their Antibacterial Activity

Table 2

Amount of silver incorporated into clays by physical and chemical treatments.

Carrier	Physical treatment		Chemical treatment
	Weight %	Atomic %	Weight %	Atomic %
Kaolinite	0.13	0.02	0.84	0.15
Clinoptilolite	0.65	0.11	0.70	0.13
Sepiolite	0.75	0.12	0.79	0.14