“…It can be seen from Figure 1a that all samples showed diffraction peaks at 2θ of 8.5°, 19.5°, 27.8°, 34.7°, and 35.4°, corresponding to the diffraction peaks of attapulgite crystal structure, indicating that ATP's crystal structure was not damaged when CTS and metal oxides were introduced into ATP while the disorder degree of ATP crystal increased due to the changes of basal peaks. The diffraction peaks at 2θ of 24.2°, 33.2°, 40.9°, 49.6°, and 54.2° belong to Fe2O3 [41], and the diffraction peaks of 35.6°, 38.7°, 49.1°, 53.5°, 58.3°, and 65.9° are characteristic peaks of CuO [41,42]. These indicate that the metal oxides are successfully loaded on the surface of CTS-ATP.…”