“…This wrapping is driven by a mismatch between the oxygen-sharing tetrahedral SiO 4 sheet and its adjacent octahedral A1O 6 sheet in the 1:1 layer (Bates et al, 1950;Singh, 1996). Because of its unique onedimensional mesoscopic/macroscopic porous structure and economic viability, halloysite has been applied as a nanoscale reactor (Shchukin et al, 2005), as a nanofiller for CPN (Hedicke-Hochstotter et al, 2009;Li et al, 2008a), and as a carrier or support for the entrapment and controlled release of functional guests (Levis and Deasy, 2002;Lvov et al, 2008;Tan et al, 2013;Yuan et al, 2012a). It is worth emphasizing that halloysite has a high level of biocompatibility and low cytotoxicity, which enables its safe use in various fields (Van Oss et al, 1999;Vergaro et al, 2010).…”