“…Recently, a new promising class of inorganic layered materials, e.g., layered double hydroxides (LDHs), have been attracting much attention because of their wide applications in catalysts, catalyst precursors, anion exchangers, re retardants, hydrogenation reaction, acid absorbents, bioactive nanocomposites, electroactive and photoactive materials, etc. [6][7][8][9][10] Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), also known as anionic or hydrotalcite-like clays, are a class of lamellar compounds having overall charge neutrality due to the existence of positively charged brucite-like hydroxide layers with typical thickness 0.48 nm and hydrated exchangeable anions located in the interlayer gallery. 6 The positive charge of the brucite-like layers arises from the partially isomorphous substitution of trivalent cations for divalent metal ones.…”