Sepiolite and palygorskite are natural microfibrous clay minerals whose particular structural,
morphological and textural features are useful for the preparation of a wide variety of …

Increasingly intricate in their composition and structural organization, hierarchical
multicomponent metamaterials with nonlinear spatially reconfigurable functionalities …

Recent results demonstrating the possibility of preparing graphene‐like materials from
natural resources such as sucrose (table sugar) and gelatin assembled to silica‐based …

Pure cellulosic foams suffer from low thermal stability and high flammability, limiting their
fields of application. Here, light-weight and flame-resistant nanostructured foams are …

The need for safe, therapeutically effective, and patient-compliant drug delivery systems
continuously leads researchers to design novel tools and strategies. Clay minerals are …

Sepiolite and palygorskite are versatile clay minerals deserving many diverse applications
due to their unique textural and structural characteristics compared to layered clay minerals …

Gelatin was extracted from tilapia scales at pH ranges from 3 to 9, and the properties of
resulting gelatin films were investigated. The ash and calcium contents in gelatin extracted …

Nanosized material fillers are widely used to enhance certain properties of polymers.
Moreover, the use of nanoclays as a delivery host in pharmaceutical fields has gained a …

Abstract TiO2 immobilized in Sepiolite (TiO2/Sep) was successfully prepared by the sol-gel
technique, with titanium isopropoxide as the precursor for the formation of TiO2 in the …

The present work introduces new functional bionanocomposite materials based on layered
montmorillonite and fibrous sepiolite clays and two biopolymers (carboxymethylcellulose …