“…The idea of Sap/polymer nanocomposites might be borrowed from the Mt /polymer nanocomposites (Lambert and Bergaya, 2013). Similarly, the preparation of Sap/polymer nanocomposites is also achieved by solution intercalation (Jairam et al, 2013;Shin et al, 2013;Yang et al, 2013;Chang et al, 2014;Wu et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2015;Xi et al, 2015;Ju and Chang, 2016;Eguchi et al, 2017;Sas et al, 2017), melt mixing or melt intercalation (Zhen et al, 2012;Kitajima et al, 2013;Zhen and Wang, 2016) or in situ polymerization (Jairam et al, 2013;Nakamura and Ogawa, 2013; Tong and Deng, 2013; Bandla et al, 2017) ( Table 3). Melt mixing is the simplest method since it is easily operated, economic and environmental friendly (Shen et al, 2002;Pandey et al, 2005;Zou et al, 2008).…”