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Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical applications
The arena of biomedical science has long been in quest of innovative mediums for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The latest being the use of nanomaterials for such applications, thereby giving rise to the branch of nanomedicine. Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are naturally occurring tubular cl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31320940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1849543519863625 |
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author | Satish, Swathi Tharmavaram, Maithri Rawtani, Deepak |
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description | The arena of biomedical science has long been in quest of innovative mediums for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The latest being the use of nanomaterials for such applications, thereby giving rise to the branch of nanomedicine. Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are naturally occurring tubular clay nanomaterials, made of aluminosilicate kaolin sheets rolled several times. The aluminol and siloxane groups on the surface of HNT facilitate the formation of hydrogen bonding with the biomaterials onto its surface. These properties render HNT pivotal in diverse range of applications, such as in environmental sciences, waste-water treatment, dye removal, nanoelectronics and fabrication of nanocomposites, catalytic studies, as glass coatings or anticorrosive coatings, in cosmetics, as flame retardants, stimuli response, and forensic sciences. The specific properties of HNT also lead to numerous applications in biomedicine and nanomedicine, namely drug delivery, gene delivery, tissue engineering, cancer and stem cells isolation, and bioimaging. In this review, recent developments in the use of HNT for various nanomedicinal applications have been discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-66285222019-07-18 Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical applications Satish, Swathi Tharmavaram, Maithri Rawtani, Deepak Nanobiomedicine (Rij) Invited Feature Article The arena of biomedical science has long been in quest of innovative mediums for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The latest being the use of nanomaterials for such applications, thereby giving rise to the branch of nanomedicine. Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are naturally occurring tubular clay nanomaterials, made of aluminosilicate kaolin sheets rolled several times. The aluminol and siloxane groups on the surface of HNT facilitate the formation of hydrogen bonding with the biomaterials onto its surface. These properties render HNT pivotal in diverse range of applications, such as in environmental sciences, waste-water treatment, dye removal, nanoelectronics and fabrication of nanocomposites, catalytic studies, as glass coatings or anticorrosive coatings, in cosmetics, as flame retardants, stimuli response, and forensic sciences. The specific properties of HNT also lead to numerous applications in biomedicine and nanomedicine, namely drug delivery, gene delivery, tissue engineering, cancer and stem cells isolation, and bioimaging. In this review, recent developments in the use of HNT for various nanomedicinal applications have been discussed. SAGE Publications 2019-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6628522/ /pubmed/31320940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1849543519863625 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Invited Feature Article Satish, Swathi Tharmavaram, Maithri Rawtani, Deepak Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical applications |
title | Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical
applications |
title_full | Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical
applications |
title_fullStr | Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical
applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical
applications |
title_short | Halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical
applications |
title_sort | halloysite nanotubes as a nature’s boon for biomedical
applications |
topic | Invited Feature Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31320940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1849543519863625 |
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