Antibacterial air filter media offer an important solution to indoor pollution from bioaerosols, which pose a serious threat global public health. In this study, we introduced antibacterial based on nanofibers functionalized with photothermal agent, deactivates bacteria upon near-infrared (NIR) irradiation. Halloysite nanotube (HNT) clay nanoparticles coated polydopamine (PDA), heat up when exp...

Abstract Water is essential for humans, animals, and plants; pollutants, usually derived from anthropogenic activities, can have a serious effect on its quality. Heavy metals are significant pollutants often highly toxic to living organisms, even at very low concentrations. Among the numerous removal techniques proposed, adsorption onto suitable adsorbent materials considered be one of most pro...

Polystyrene/polyolefin elastomer (PS/POE) (90/10 and 80/20 wt/wt) blends containing 1, 3, 5 phr halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) in the presence absence of a compatibilizer (polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride) were prepared using melt-mixing technique. Scanning electron microscopic studies confirmed matrix-droplet morphology. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) mapping indicated that HNTs possess...

In this paper, Taguchi method was applied to determine the optimum conditions for Zn (II) removal from aqueous solution by halloysite nanotubes (HNTs). An orthogonal array experimental design (L16 (45) which is of five control factors including pH, t (contact time), m (adsorbent mass), T (temperature) and C0 (initial concentration of Zn (II)) having four levels ...