The fast development of the world civilization is continuously based on huge energy consumption. extra-consumption fossil fuel (petroleum, coal, and gas) in past decades has caused several political environmental crises. Accordingly, world, especially scientific community, should discover alternative sources to safe-guard our future from severe climate changes. Hydrogen ideal carrier, where nan...

Highly ordered transparent composite films of CdS and layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have been fabricated using a template synthesis method; the size of the CdS particles in the LDH host can be controlled by adjusting the length of time of the reaction with H(2)S.

A facile method for the synthesis of Zn2Al-borate and Mg3Al-borate layered double hydroxides (LDHs) with extremely high specific surface areas of 458.6 and 263 m(2) g(-1) and containing delaminated nanosheets is reported. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of LDH powders that still remain exfoliated on drying.

We demonstrated that analyzing the formed gels containing exfoliated nitrate or glycine intercalated layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets in formamide using X-ray diffraction is a simple and reliable method for determining the delamination degree of LDHs in formamide, which shows many advantages compared to the common characterization technologies.

Batch sorption and column breakthrough studies were conducted to investigate the potential of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) to remove bacteriophage MS2 from contaminated waters. All four of the LDHs evaluated in this study had very high retention capacities for MS2. Sorption results showed that MS2 could be completely removed from 5.2 x 10(2) plaque-forming units (pfu)/mL solution by Mg-Al L...

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) can shield polymeric materials from UV light, which allows reducing material aging and erosion damage of bituminous pavement under physical chemical action. In this study, the physicochemical properties, resistance, resistance to aqueous solution LDHs modified bitumen mastic (BM) were characterized by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, basic tests, viscosi...