The invention discloses a thickening suspending agent containing modified attapulgite and application of the thickening suspending agent, and belongs to the technical field of thickening
suspending agents. After
acidification treatment, the content of impurities on the surface of attapulgite is reduced, the surface area and the porous property are increased, the load rate of zero-valent iron can be increased, and the
utilization rate of the zero-valent iron is increased. Zero-valent iron is uniformly loaded on tubular pore channels or the surface of attapulgite in the form of nano-particles, so that the
surface roughness of the composite
powder is increased, stronger steric hindrance can be formed around
pesticide particles, and the
pesticide particles are prevented from being gathered and enlarged due to collision, so that
sedimentation is reduced, and the composite
powder has good suspension property and
dispersity; the load of zero-valent iron can endow the thickening suspending agent with the heavy
metal chelating capability; through two times of intercalation treatment, the modified zero-valent iron composite attapulgite
powder can be uniformly loaded between
graphene oxide layers, the
graphene oxide can assist the dispersion of the attapulgite to avoid agglomeration, and the existence of the
graphene oxide can improve the
thermal stability of the thickening suspending agent.