title: Properties and Applications of Polyvinyl Alcohol, Halloysite Nanotubes and Their Nanocomposites.
abstract: The aim of this review was to analyze/investigate the synthesis, properties, and applications of polyvinyl alcohol-halloysite nanotubes (PVA-HNT), and their nanocomposites. Different polymers with versatile properties are attractive because of their introduction and potential uses in many fields. Synthetic polymers, such as PVA, natural polymers like alginate, starch, chitosan, or any material with these components have prominent status as important and degradable materials with biocompatibility properties. These materials have been developed in the 1980s and are remarkable because of their recyclability and consideration of the natural continuation of their physical and chemical properties. The fabrication of PVA-HNT nanocomposites can be a potential way to address some of PVA's limitations. Such nanocomposites have excellent mechanical properties and thermal stability. PVA-HNT nanocomposites have been reported earlier, but without proper HNT individualization and PVA modifications. The properties of PVA-HNT for medicinal and biomedical use are attracting an increasing amount of attention for medical applications, such as wound dressings, drug delivery, targeted-tissue transportation systems, and soft biomaterial implants. The demand for alternative polymeric medical devices has also increased substantially around the world. This paper reviews individualized HNT addition along with crosslinking of PVA for various biomedical applications that have been previously reported in literature, thereby showing the attainability, modification of characteristics, and goals underlying the blending process with PVA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical &amp; Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering &amp; Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia. taysersumer@gmail.com.|Department of Machinery Equipment Engineering Techniques, Technical College Al-Musaib, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Al-Musaib, Babil 51009, Iraq. taysersumer@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tayser Sumer
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Gaaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical &amp; Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering &amp; Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia. abubakar@ukm.edu.my.
authors.forename: Abu Bakar
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Sulong
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical &amp; Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering &amp; Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia. majidniazakhtar@ciitlahore.edu.pk.|Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore 54000, Pakistan. majidniazakhtar@ciitlahore.edu.pk.
authors.forename: Majid Niaz
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Akhtar
authors.affiliation: Department of chemical &amp; Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering &amp; Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia. amir@eng.ukm.my.
authors.forename: Abdul Amir H
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kadhum
authors.affiliation: Department of chemical &amp; Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering &amp; Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia. drab@eng.ukm.my.|Fuel Cell Institute, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor 43000, Malaysia. drab@eng.ukm.my.
authors.forename: Abu Bakar
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Mohamad
authors.affiliation: Department of chemical &amp; Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering &amp; Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia. dr.ahmed1975@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ahmed A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Al-Amiery
mesh_terms: D000538:Aluminum Silicates / Q000737:chemistry*; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D048271:Chitosan / Q000737:chemistry; D000077215:Clay; D006801:Humans; D053761:Nanocomposites / Q000737:chemistry*; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry*; D011142:Polyvinyl Alcohol / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000538:Aluminum Silicates; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D011142:Polyvinyl Alcohol; D048271:Chitosan; D000077215:Clay
keywords: biocompatibility; biomedical application; halloysite nanotubes; polyvinyl alcohol; properties