Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
A layered host material with the ability to encapsulate anionic substances was synthesized by intercalating polycations into a synthetic fluoromica. A cationic polyelectrolyte coiled in the interlayer galleries to overcompensate the negative charge on the silicate sheets, and bulky anionic dye molecules could site-selectively be intercalated into interlayer in which the polyelectorlyte coiled.