Halloysite is a natural nanosized tubular clay mineral that has many potentially important
uses in different industrial fields. In this paper, the key structural characteristics and …

This critical review mainly focuses on recent research progress in photofunctional
lanthanide hybrid materials. The review covers hybrids with complexes of organically …

Rapid, sensitive, and selective quantitative detection of pyridine dicarboxylic acid (DPA) as
biomarker of anthrax spores is in great demand since anthrax spores are highly lethal to …

The world resources of all clays are extremely large. Among the various types of clays, the
world mine production of kaolin in 2016 was 37.0 Mt, the largest mined clay. Kaolin is …

Nanotubular halloysite mineral with a 1: 1 layered structure was interlayer grafted using
diethanolamine and triethanolamine. The tailored materials which were stable in aqueous …

The first studies reporting the intercalation of organic compounds in kaolinite appeared in
the 1960's. From that time, many advances have been achieved in this field. They are mainly …

Interest in lanthanide complexes in the synthetic clays remains growing considerably during
the last decades because of the attractive features of the individuals. Synthetic clays like …

New hybrid kaolinite was obtained for the first time by intercalation of 1, 2, 4-triazole (TAZ) in
the interlayer space of methoxykaolinite. The successful synthesis of the material (K-TAZ) …

Tubular halloysite is a naturally occurring clay mineral with a characteristic lumen surface,
as well as an interlayer surface and an external surface. The chemical environment endows …

A series of ternary lanthanide β-diketonate derivatives covalently bonded to xerogels
(named as Ln-DP-xerogel, Ln= Sm, Yb, Nd, Er, Pr, Ho) by doubly functionalized alkoxysilane …