“…This shortcoming can be rectified by modification of the structure by organic and/ or inorganic cation intercalation (Atia, 2008), thus allowing a broad range of adsorption capacity. More recently and specifically, adsorption properties of bentonite have been enhanced by replacing quaternary ammonium cations with interlayer cations, which have been effectively used in environmental remediation studies for the removal of organic and anionic pollutants (Bors et al, 1999, Lee and Kim, 2002, Majdan et al, 2005, Gammoudi et al, 2012, Ma et al, 2012, Sarkar et al, 2012, Chen et al, 2014. Such organo-bentonites (OBent) have also been widely used in the making of clay-polymer nanocomposites (Carrado and Komadel, 2009, Eisenhour and Brown, 2009, Carrosco et al, 2011.…”