Nanocomposite Hydrogels: Isolation and Stabilization of LDH 2D Crystals with Ultrahigh Surface Exposure via Polymer Gel Formation (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 20/2017)

In article number 1700740, Huiliang Wang, Xiaojing Yang, and co-workers propose a strategy to isolate and stabilize ZnAl-layered double hydroxide 2D crystals via polymer gel formation. The polymer gels are prepared by copolymerizing of acrylic acid anion and acrylamide in situ in the colloidal solution of the 2D crystals (pink hexagonal disks). The 2D crystals with ultrahigh surface exposure exhibit high adsorptivity toward phosphate (gray balls).