Natural mineral nanotubes
Subtitle: properties and applications
By: Pooria Pasbakhsh, PhD, and G. Jock Churchman, PhD, editors
Publisher: Apple Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oakville, ON, Canada; Waretown, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781771880565; 9781482262254
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mineralogy; Nanotubes; Nanostructures; Halloysite
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Phyllosilicates used as nanotube substrates in engineered materials: structures, chemistries, and textures / Stephen Guggenheim; title: The indentification and nomenclature of halloysite (a historical perspective) / G. Jock Churchman; title: The identification and nomenclature of sepiolite and palygorskite (a historical perspective) / Emilio Galâan and Patricia Aparicio; title: The identification and nomenclature of chrysotile (a historical perspective) / Saverio Fiore and F. Javier Huertas; title: The mineralogy, geology and occurrences of halloysite / John L. Keeling; title: The mineralogy, geology and main occurences of sepiolite and playgorskite clays / Emilio Galâan and Manuel Pozo; title: The mineralogy, geology and main occurences of chrysotile / Saverio Fiore and F. Javier Huertas; title: Polymer nanocomposites reinforced by halloysite nanotubes: a review / Vahdat Vahedi and Pooria Pasbakhsh; title: Bionanocomposites of sepiolite and palygorskite and their medical issues / Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, Margarita Darder, Francisco M. Fernandes, Bernd Wicklein, Ana C.S. Alcãantara, and Pilar Aranda; title: Biopolymer nanocomposites: polylactic acid/halloysite nanotube composites / Rangika T De Silva, Pooria Pasbakhsh, and Kheng Lim Goh; title: Halloysite-poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanocomposites for biomedical applications / Mingxian Liu, Peng Ao, Qi Peng, Binghong Luo, and Changren Zhou; title: Current research on chitosan-halloysite composites / Kavitha Govindasamy, Pooria Pasbakhsh, and Khen Lim Goh; title: Measurement of the elastic modulus of halloysite nanotubes using atomic force microscopy / B. Lecouvet, C. Bailly, and B. Nysten; title: Mechanics of halloysite nanotubes / Khen Lim Goh, Rangika De Silva, and Pooria Pasbakhsh; title: Functionalization and compatibilization of halloysite nanotubes / Vahdat Vahedi and Pooria Pasbakhsh; title: Modification of sepiolite and palygorskite nanotubes and their applications / Gustave Kenne Dedzo and Christian Detellier; title: Organopalygorskites prepared from quaternary ammonium compounds and their environmental uses / Binoy Sarkar and Ravi Naidu; title: Surface modification of halloysite nanotubes: role of external hydroxyl groups / Vahdat Vahedi, Pooria Pasbakhsh, and Siang-Piao Chai; title: Halloysite tubule nanoreactors in industrial and agricultural applications / Elshad Abdullayev and Yuri Lvov; title: Some further industrial, environmental and biomedical applications of halloysite nanotubes / B. Lecouvet; title: Nanotubular minerals as templates and nanoreactors / Gustave Kenne Dedzo and Christian Detellier; title: Medical and health applications of halloysite nanotubes / Elshad Abdullayev; title: Medical and health applications of natural mineral nanotubes / Câesar Viseras, Carola Aguzzi, and Pilar Cerezo; title: The anti-inflammatory properties of different naturally occurring halloysites / Javiera Cervini-Silva, Antonio Nieto-Camacho and Marâia Teresa Ramâirez-Apâan; title: Health effects of carbon nanotubes and some comparisons with natural mineral nanotubes / Marie-Claude Jaurand; title: Current trends in research and application of natural mineral nanotubes / G. Jock Churchman and Pooria Pasbakhsh.