Nanotechnology responses to COVID‐19

E Ruiz‐Hitzky, M Darder, B Wicklein… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers, engineers, and medical doctors are made aware of the severity of the COVID‐
19 infection and act quickly against the coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 using a large variety of …

History of organic–inorganic hybrid materials: prehistory, art, science, and advanced applications

M Faustini, L Nicole, E Ruiz‐Hitzky… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of organic–inorganic hybrid materials in both academia and industry results from a
convergence of diverse expertise and communities and is driven by the curiosity of open …

Fibrous clays based bionanocomposites

E Ruiz-Hitzky, M Darder, FM Fernandes… - Progress in polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sepiolite and palygorskite are natural microfibrous clay minerals whose particular structural,
morphological and textural features are useful for the preparation of a wide variety of …

Nanoparticle-based adjuvants and delivery systems for modern vaccines

B Filipić, I Pantelić, I Nikolić, D Majhen… - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ever since the development of the first vaccine, vaccination has had the great impact on
global health, leading to the decrease in the burden of numerous infectious diseases …

MXenes and Clay Minerals in the Framework of the 2D Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials

E Ruiz-Hitzky, C Ruiz-Garcia, X Wang - Chemistry of Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review introduces a critical comparison on the chemistry of two-dimensional (2D) solids
based on clay silicates and MXenes, in relation to their common properties and especially …

Potential for layered double hydroxides-based, innovative drug delivery systems

K Zhang, ZP Xu, J Lu, ZY Tang, HJ Zhao… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Layered Double Hydroxides (LDHs)-based drug delivery systems have, for many years,
shown great promises for the delivery of chemical therapeutics and bioactive molecules to …

Nanoclays: promising materials for vaccinology

DO Govea-Alonso, MJ García-Soto… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Clay materials and nanoclays have gained recent popularity in the vaccinology field, with
biocompatibility, simple functionalization, low toxicity, and low-cost as their main attributes …

Cellular uptake pathways of sepiolite nanofibers and DNA transfection improvement

FA Castro-Smirnov, J Ayache, JR Bertrand… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Sepiolite is a nanofibrous natural silicate that can be used as a nanocarrier because it can
be naturally internalized into mammalian cells, due to its nano-size dimension. Therefore …

Building up functional bionanocomposites from the assembly of clays and biopolymers

ACS Alcântara, M Darder - The Chemical Record, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Functional bionanocomposites are developed from the assembly of naturally occurring
polymers and inorganic solids that show at least one dimension at the nanoscale. Our …

Physical interactions between DNA and sepiolite nanofibers, and potential application for DNA transfer into mammalian cells

FA Castro-Smirnov, O Piétrement, P Aranda… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Nanofibers of sepiolite, a natural silicate belonging to the clay minerals family, might
constitute a potential promising nanocarrier for the non-viral transfer of bio-molecules. We …