“…Furthermore there is a possibility to recover the metal 32 or even the retained chromium to be disposed for some useful 33 application such as catalysis [9,10]. 34 An original and recent approach has been the use of ionic 35 exchangers such as hydrotalcites (HT) [11][12][13][14][15]. Hydrotalcites, also 36 known as layered double hydroxides (LDH), are anionic clays with 37 positively charged octahedral hydroxide layers, which are neutral- where M 2+ and M 3+ are di-and tri-valent cations, respectively, A 41 mÀ is an anion whose charge is mÀ.…”