Abstract
We studied the kinetics of intercalation of a fluorescent probe (rhodamine B (RhB)) during the formation of hierarchal microspheres of cadmium–aluminum layered double hydroxide (CdAlA LDH) and its de-intercalation upon transformation from the LDH phase into the cadmium hydroxide β phase (Cd(OH)2) using a reaction-diffusion framework (RDF) where the hydroxide anions diffuse into an agar gel matrix containing the proper salts–fluorescent probe mixture. In this framework, we achieved the stabilization of the CdAlA LDH, which is known to be thermodynamically unstable and transforms into Cd(OH)2 and Al(OH)3 in a short period. RDF is advantageous as it allows with ease the extraction of the cosynthesized polymorphs and their characterization using X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX). The kinetics of inter/de-intercalation is studi...
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