Today cross-cutting approaches, where molecular engineering and clever processing are
synergistically coupled, allow the chemist to tailor complex hybrid systems of various shapes …

The invention of silica-based bioactive glass in the late 1960s has sparked significant
interest in exploring a wide range of silicon-containing biomaterials from the macroscale to …

Currently, a broad interdisciplinary research effort is pursued on biomedical applications of
2D materials (2DMs) beyond graphene, due to their unique physicochemical and electronic …

Laponite® is a synthetic smectite clay that already has many important technological
applications, which go beyond the conventional uses of clays in pharmaceutics and …

Laponite is a clay‐based material composed of synthetic disk‐shaped crystalline
nanoparticles with highly ionic, large surface area. These characteristics enable the …

Clay nanoparticles, composites and hydrogels are emerging as a new class of biomaterial
with exciting potential for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. Clay …

Seminal recent studies that have shed new light on the remarkable properties of clay
interactions suggest unexplored opportunities for biomaterial design and regenerative …

Clay minerals have been a subject of interest owing to their ready availability in nature, a
wide range of applications in various industries, and particularly their current and potential …

This study reviews current challenges of clay minerals for drug delivery. Clay minerals are
widely used in conventional pharmaceutical dosage forms both as excipients and active …

Nanostructured hybrids derived from clays are materials of increasing interest based on both
structural characteristics and functional applications, including environmental and …