LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES AS FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND THEIR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
ABSTRACT
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have fascinated materials chemists due to their wide variety of applications in various fields. The unique property of layered double hydroxides is their interlayer spacing that entertain the intercalation and deintercalation variety of anionic species. Organic pharmaceutical drugs have been intercalated into the interlayer galleries of LDHs and, consequently, novel nano drugs or smart drugs have revolutionized the medical field. LDHs, as green nanoreservoirs with sustained drug release and cell targeting properties hold great promise of improving health and prolonging life. LDHs are employed for the sorption of heavy and toxic metal ions, CO2 sequestration, electrode materials, materials of supercapacitors, polymer additives, photocatalysts, heterogeneous catalysts etc., This chapter focuses on the general discussion of the synthesis, characterization and applications of LDHs in various fields of research concern
