Endowing anti-fouling capabilities to water treatment membranes is a key feature for their long lifetime, but it continues be challenging task. Herein, strategy preparing composite reported comprising halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) as scaffolds support ruthenium substituted polyoxometalate (Ru4POM), with the goal of using evolved O2, resulting from Ru4POM-catalyzed H2O2 dismutation, agent. Two dif...

Halloysite nanotube (HNT)-based supramolecular complexes are synthesized and evaluated with respect to their cytotoxicity and effects on cellular structures. As HNTs are water-insoluble, DNA is applied for wrapping the surface of HNTs to enhance their water-dispersibility. To investigate the potential of DNA-wrapped HNTs (HD) as a promising drug delivery carrier, doxorubicin (DOX) is introduced...

Biomimetic architectural assembly of clay nanotube shells on yeast cells was demonstrated producing viable artificial hybrid inorganic-cellular structures (armoured cells). These modified cells were preserved for one generation resulting in the intact second generation of cells with delayed germination.

Modified halloysite nanotubes (HNTs-Cl) were synthesized by a coupling reaction with (3-chloropropyl) trimethoxysilane (CPTMS). The incorporation of chloro-silane onto HNTs surface creates HNTs-Cl, which has great chemical activity and is considered good candidate as an active site that reacts other molecules in order to create new materials applications engineering nanotechnology. value this w...

Aquivion membrane displays improved properties as compared to Nafion membrane, partly due shorter side chains. However, some improvements are still necessary for proton exchange fuel cell operate at low relative humidity. To overcome this drawback, the addition of clay nanoparticle into matrix can be considered. In study, different composite membranes have been prepared mixing short-side-chain ...

Halloysite sorbent was added to liquid urine (dose 10 g/dm) and solid faeces (unmodified structure, dose 50 g/kg) being a subject of anaerobic fermentation in a hermetic system for 20 days. Identification of surface morphology and elementary chemical composition in microregions of the spent sorbent were done using scanning electron microscope Zeiss Supra 35 equipped with EDS detectors. Both gra...