Layered double hydroxides (LDH) are a versatile group of materials, which receive significant attention due to their many applications within catalysis, energy conversion and storage, drug delivery, environmental remediation, carbon dioxide sequestration. Moreover, LDH exists as minerals in Nature. Their properties can be tuned by the choice chemical composition well by, e.g., delamination form...

Ion–molecule reactions elucidate bond dissociation energies of elementary molecules like YbOH+ and YbF+. Observed tentatively suggest similar bonding in lanthanide hydroxides fluorides, definitely a need for further inquiry.

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) which are one type of layered material promising materials due to some their interesting properties, such as ease synthesis, unique structure, uniform distribution different metal cations in the brucite layer, surface hydroxyl groups, flexible tunability, intercalated anions with interlayer spaces, swelling and high chemical thermal stability, ability intercalat...

The electrochemical behaviour for passivation of new alloy corrosion-resistant steel Cr10Mo1 immersed in alkaline solutions with different pH values (13.3, 12.0, 10.5, and 9.0) and chloride contents (0.2 M and 1.0 M), was investigated by various electrochemical techniques: linear polarization resistance, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and capacitance measurements. The chemical compositi...

The application of hybrid and hierarchical nanomaterials based on layered hydroxides and oxyhydroxides of metals is a swiftly progressing field in biomedicine. Layered double hydroxides (LDH) possess a large specific surface area, significant surface electric charge and biocompatibility. Their physical and structural properties enable them to adsorb various kinds of anionic species and to trans...

Films of brucite-type cobalt hydroxide with nanorod morphology and hydrotalcite-type cobalt hydroxide with nanosheet morphology films were fabricated by heterogeneous nucleation in a chemical bath using water and a mixed solution of water–methanol as solvents, respectively. Since oxygen is around 25 times more soluble in methanol than in water, a methanol solution was used to convert a part of ...

Trace metals (e.g. Ni, Zn) leached from industrial and agricultural processes are often simultaneously present in contaminated soils and sediments. Their mobility, bioavailability, and ecotoxicity are affected by sorption and cosorption at mineral/solution interfaces. Cosorption of trace metals has been investigated at the macroscopic level, but there is not a clear understanding of the molecul...