Halloysite

nanotubes (HNTs) are natural tubular materials which show a number of

attractive advantages such as the unique micro-spatial structure, large

length-diameter ratio, high lumen volume, nontoxicity and widespread. The

development of HNTs-based polymer composites expanded their applications in the

fields of energy, catalysis, bio-medical, environmental protection and many so

others. This review will briefly summarize the purification, characterization

and modification methods upon HNTs, in which the preparation and application of

the HNTs-based polymer composites are emphasized. We wrote this paper here

which may be beneficial

to the development of novel strategies for the preparation of new libraries of

HNTs-based polymer composites and the exploration of the applications.