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Cytocompatibility and Uptake of Halloysite Clay Nanotubes

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Quantitative Trypan blue and MTT measurements performed with two neoplastic cell lines model systems as a function of the nanotubes concentration and incubation time indicate that halloysite exhibits a high level of biocompatibility and very low cytotoxicity, rendering it a good candidate for household materials and medicine.
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This article is published in Biomacromolecules.The article was published on 2010-02-19. It has received 559 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Halloysite & Neoplastic cell.

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Halloysite Clay Nanotubes for Loading and Sustained Release of Functional Compounds.

TL;DR: Halloysite nanotubes are a promising mesoporous media for catalytic nanoparticles that may be seeded on the tube surface or synthesized exclusively in the lumens, providing enhanced catalytic properties, especially at high temperatures.
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Recent advance in research on halloysite nanotubes-polymer nanocomposite

TL;DR: Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) have been used extensively in polymer nanocomposites as mentioned in this paper, where they have shown high tensile and flexural strength, elastic moduli, and improved toughness.
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Properties and applications of halloysite nanotubes: recent research advances and future prospects

TL;DR: In this article, the key structural characteristics and properties of halloysite and their related applications are comprehensively reviewed, and future prospects and key problems to be solved in Halloysite studies are discussed.
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Functional polymer–clay nanotube composites with sustained release of chemical agents

TL;DR: Halloysite is a biocompatible material and its simple processing combined with low cost make it a perspective additive for polymeric biocomposites as mentioned in this paper, however, these tubes have smaller diameter and much lower loading capacity for macromolecules.
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Properties and Applications of Polyvinyl Alcohol, Halloysite Nanotubes and Their Nanocomposites.

TL;DR: This paper reviews individualized HNT addition along with crosslinking of PVA for various biomedical applications that have been previously reported in literature, thereby showing the attainability, modification of characteristics, and goals underlying the blending process with PVA.
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Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nanolevel

TL;DR: The establishment of principles and test procedures to ensure safe manufacture and use of nanomaterials in the marketplace is urgently required and achievable.
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WSXM: a software for scanning probe microscopy and a tool for nanotechnology.

TL;DR: The most relevant features of WSXM, a freeware scanning probe microscopy software based on MS-Windows, are described and some relevant procedures of the software are carried out.
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Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes

TL;DR: In this article, the amplitude of the intrinsic thermal vibrations of isolated carbon nanotubes was measured in the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and it was shown that they have exceptionally high Young's moduli, in the terapascal (TPa) range.
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Halloysite clay minerals — a review

TL;DR: Halloysite clay minerals are ubiquitous in soils and weathered rocks where they occur in a variety of particle shapes and hydration states as discussed by the authors and diversity also characterizes their chemical composition, cation exchange capacity and potassium selectivity.
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Mechanisms in the pathogenesis of asbestosis and silicosis.

TL;DR: The clinical and pathologic features of asbestosis and silicosis, and mineralogic features of asbestos and silica that may be important in disease causation along with confounding factors such as coexposures to smoking and/or other mineral dusts are considered.
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