Immobilization of biomolecules on natural clay minerals for medical applications

Abstract

Biomolecules are a group of organic entities that are important in many areas of research on nanomaterials and for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. Advanced systems have been developed to attempt to protect the activity of biomolecules from rapid degradation and instability. Among these techniques, the incorporation or immobilization of biomolecules has become popular in the development of biocomposites. As such, clay minerals appear to be promising materials; combining a nanometer-scale size with their adsorptive capacity, lack of toxicity, and biocompatibility would result in enhanced biomaterial properties. This mini‑review discusses the recent advances concerning biological molecules immobilized on clay minerals and their biomedical applications as biosensors, in regenerative medicine, and even as controlled delivery systems.

Polysaccharide-Fibrous Clay Bionanocomposites and their Applications

“…The effect of charge on release kinematics was investigated on inorganic halloysite nanotubes (HNT) with chitosan polysaccharides. The spectroscopic results showed the polymeric coating strongly influences the release of probes [42,43]. Attenuated total reflectance FTIR (ATR-FTIR) was deployed to examine the interaction between the hydroxyl group chitosan and fibrous clay bio nano-composite compounds.…”