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Natural Double Layered Hydroxides: Structure, Chemistry, and Information Storage Capacity

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Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) constitute an important group of materials with many applications ranging from catalysis and absorption to carriers for drug delivery, DNA intercalation and carbon dioxide sequestration (Rives 2001; Duan and Evans 2006). The structures of LDHs are based upon double brucite-like hydroxide layers [M 2+n M 3+m (OH)2(m+n)]m+, where M2+ = Mg2+, Fe2+, Mn2+, Zn2+, etc.; M3+ = Al3+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Mn3+, etc. The positive charge of the layer is compensated by interlayer species that may consist of anions (CO 2−3 , Cl−, SO 2−4 , etc.) or both anions and cations (Na+, Ca2+, Sr2+, etc.).

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic research (grant 10-05-00431).

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  1. Nanomaterials Research Center, Kola Science Center, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 Fersman Street, 184209, Moscow, Russia

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  2. Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Geology, St. Petersburg State University, University Emb. 7/9, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Sergey V. Krivovichev, Victor N. Yakovenchuk & Elena S. Zhitova

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Krivovichev, S.V., Yakovenchuk, V.N., Zhitova, E.S. (2011). Natural Double Layered Hydroxides: Structure, Chemistry, and Information Storage Capacity. In: Krivovichev, S. (eds) Minerals as Advanced Materials II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20018-2_9

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