“…This is due to their unique structure, from which a wide variety of applications arose. Their main use is in catalysis, they can act as support for catalysts, catalyst precursors or they can be the actual catalysts (e.g., Xu et al, 2011;He et al, 2013;Fan et al, 2014;Sipiczki et al, 2015). Other fields of applications are environmental (e.g., Shin et al, 1996;Zümreoglu-Karan and Ay, 2012;Liang et al, 2013), pharmaceutical (e.g., Choy et al, 2007;Costantino et al, 2008;Ladewig et al, 2009;Oh et al, 2009;Rives et al, 2014;Gu et al, 2015), cosmetic (e.g., Yang et al, 2003;Perioli et al, 2006), etc.…”