“…The valence states and chemical composition of LDH, LDH-LS@CS, LDH-LS, and LDH-LS@CS@PAMn were analyzed by XPS, as depicted in Table and Figure . According to Figure A, the XPS spectrum of LDH suggested the existence of Mg, Al, C, and O with the respective percentages of 17.41, 7.77, 20.75, and 54.07%, with peaks appearing at 70.1 and 1301.1 eV corresponding to Al 2p and Mg 1s. , LDH-LS contained Mg, Al, C, O, and S elements, and the peak appeared at 177.2 eV, corresponding to S 2p in LDH-LS, which was related to the modification of LS. A new peak appeared in the LDH-LS@CS’s XPS spectrum, which contained the Mg, C, Al, O, S, and N, in which the peak at 402.4 eV corresponds to the LDH-LS@CS in N 1s of CS .…”