“…Previous works on oxides derived from HT precursors are reported in the literature, and the precursors are produced with both bimetallic and trimetallic layers, such as MgAl (Carvalho et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2012;Feng et al, 2013), ZnAl (Carriazo et al, 2011;Ahmed et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012), CoAl (Palomares et al, 2012) or a series MAl (M 2+ = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn), LaZnAl (Liu et al, 2013), CuZnAl (Cross et al, 2012), NiMgAl (Fang et al, 2014), ZnMgAl (Bezen et al, 2011) or a series MMgAl (M 2+ = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn) (Pavel et al, 2012), MMnAl (M 2+ = Ni, Co, Ni-Co, Ni-Cu or Co-Cu) (Kovanda and Jirátová, 2011). The co-precipitation method is the most frequently used in the preparation of these materials.…”