“…Aggregation experiments were carried out with sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS, Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd., China, m = 272.38 g/mol, AR) and potassium chloride (KCl, Tianjin Qilun Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., China, m = 74.45 g/mol, AR). SDBS is a common polymer surfactant for ceramic materials (Chai, Cheng, Peng, Huang, & Zhang, 2006;Ge & Liang, 2010;Panya, Arquero, Franks, & Wanless, 2004;Panya, Wanless, Arquero, & Franks, 2005;Satchawan et al, 2014) and was used at dosages of 0.5, 1.0, and 3.0 wt% (based on the weight of the solid in suspension). In the case of KCl, the suspensions were firstly diluted with distilled water (conductivity: 0.001 S/m at 25 • C) from the ground suspension of 30 wt% to dilute suspensions of 5, 10, and 20 wt%, and then KCl was added into each suspension at 5, 10, 20, and 30 wt% to accelerate the aggregation process at the concentrations of 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 M, respectively.…”