“…The wide choice of metal cations and interlayer anions give rise to a series of layered functional materials. They are widely used in the fields of anion exchange, adsorption (Guo et al, 2012;Shimamura et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2015), drug delivery reagents (Oliver, 2009;Zhao et al, 2012a,b), electrochemistry Tonelli et al, 2013), functional polymers (Zhou et al, 2011;Miranda et al, 2013), catalysts (Kantam et al, 2012;Lopez-Martinez and Shannon, 2012;Chubar et al, 2013;Mendoza-Damian et al, 2013), and so on. Particularly, when the Mg or Al element in the octahedral structure was replaced by other metal elements such as Zn, Cu and Ti, it would narrow the energy gap, enable the electrons being excited easily by visible light to create the electronhole pair and therefore increase the photo-catalysis activity (Wang and O'Hare, 2012;Xia et al, 2014).…”