“…Consequently, HNTs have emerged as a prominent nanomaterial for various biomedical applications, including tableting [ 25 ], drug delivery [ 22 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ], tissue engineering [ 27 ], bioimaging [ 30 , 31 ], anti-cancer therapy [ 32 , 33 ], and antimicrobial solutions [ 34 ]. The latter three have been often realized by utilizing HNTs as ‘mothership’ carriers for cargoes ranging from quantum dots [ 35 , 36 ] through metal oxides NPs to precious metals [ 19 , 34 ], including gold [ 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ].…”