“…Several experimental techniques are used to verify that exfoliated LMs were not structurally damaged when compared to the parent bulk material. 21,22,31,35,40 Mechanical exfoliation has been successfully applied to a variety of phyllosilicates, such as biotite, 37,40 serpentine, 31 phlogopite, 20 clinochlore, 27 talc [23][24][25][26][41][42][43] , muscovite, [44][45][46][47][48] and others, 17,37 reaching stable single or FL-flakes onto different substrates. Thus, we foresee that novel vertical vdWHs will be made by…”