Layered materials have widely been used as adsorbents, catalysts, catalyst supports, and hosts for functional molecular species, owing to 1) their large surface areas derived from well-defined nanostructures composed of ultrathin sheets, 2) their chemical stability, and 3) the diversity of the materials.[1] The modification of interlayer nanospaces has been conducted through ion exchange [2] and grafting.[3] Though there have been several examples in which the adsorptive characteristics of layered materials have been tuned by organic modification, [4] the ability to strongly and specifically bind a particular molecular species is still a topic of interest.We have reported that the organic derivative of a layered silicate that bears interlayer hydroxy groups and has been modified with controlled amounts of octyltrichlorosilane adsorbs n-alkyl alcohols and not n-alkanes.[5] This phenomenon was explained as the result of the cooperative effect of the chemical nature and geometry of the modified silicate, wherein the two functional units (alkyl and hydroxy groups) were spatially arranged to selectively bind n-alkyl alcohols. The immobilization of various kinds of organic functional units and the control of their spatial distribution in layered materials are worth further investigation to tailor guestbinding characteristics.Herein we report the immobilization of two different organic functional units, alkyl and phenyl groups, in the interlayer space of a layered titanate to specifically adsorb 4-nonylphenol (NPh), a known contaminant of water, from aqueous solution. The adsorption of NPh onto activated carbon [6] or a mesoporous organosilica [7] from aqueous solution has been reported, while the adsorption selectivity and capacity of NPh were not documented. In the system reported in this work, alkyl and phenyl groups were immobilized in the interlayer space to interact with the nonyl and phenyl groups of NPh, respectively.The adsorbent was synthesized as follows. Phenyltrimethoxysilane (PTMS) and n-octadecyltrimethoxysilane (C 18 TMS) were allowed sequentially to react with K 0.8 Ti 1.73 Li 0.27 O 4 (KTLO). The silylation of KTLO [8] was carried out by using the dodecyltrimethylammoniumexchanged form (C 12 TMA-TLO) as the intermediate. The silylation with PTMS was carried out by dispersing C 12 TMA-TLO (0.50 g) in a solution of PTMS (2.8 mL) in toluene (50 mL) and stirring the mixture for two days at 80 8C. The product was separated by centrifugation and washed with acetone. The phenylsilylated derivative (0.50 g) thus obtained (abbreviated as PTMS-TLO) was then dispersed in a solution of C 18 TMS (3.0 mL) in toluene (40 mL), and the mixture was stirred for two days at 80 8C. The product was separated by centrifugation and washed with acetone, a mixture consisting of HCl aq (0.1m, 20 mL) and ethanol (20 mL) to remove the remaining C 12 TMA, and finally a mixture of acetone (20 mL) and water (20 mL) to hydrolyze residual methoxy groups.[5]The silylated derivative thus obtained is abbreviated as PTMS-C 18 TMS-TLO. To...