Biomedical applications promise growth for halloysite

• Autores: Kasia Patel
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 578, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Diciembre)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • "Obviously, purely engineering applications, such as polymer stabilisers or anticorrosion coatings are better candidates for the straightforward industrial use [of halloysite]," Frakhrullin told IM. "However, I hope that the biomedical applications are very promising and will be realised soon." "Halloysite is already used at about 70,000 tpa, mostly for advanced ceramics and porcelain, as enforcing plastic additives and for cosmetic formulation," Frakhrullin told IM. "Depending on the outcomes of the scientific research, these numbers might increase substantially." Frakhrullin told IM that there was still much to learn about the possibility of halloysite use internally. "I want to underline that we do not know much about the possible pathways of degradation of halloysite in the body, but this does not mean that it cannot be degraded in certain conditions," he said. "For now, it is clear that we can envisage several applications where halloysite-based nanocontainers can be injected into the blood, by analogy with other inorganic nanosized carriers, but this remains to be studied in more detail."