“…Smectite group of clay minerals is an important class of layered materials, which has such peculiar characteristics as swelling behavior, large surface area, adsorptive property, and ion exchange property for immobilizing organic guest molecules (van Olphen, 1977). Numerous works have been done on the hybrids of organic and inorganic substances with pristine and organically modified smectites to show the modified properties of the immobilized species confined in the interlayer space of the clay minerals (Khaorapapong et al, 20022011a, 2011bLagaly, et al, 2006;Khaorapapong and Ogawa, 2007, 2010, 2011Khaorapapong, 2010;Ontam et al, 2011;Pimchan et al, 2011Pimchan et al, , 2014aPimchan et al, , 2014bOkada et al, 2014). The preparation of smectite-based hybrids is worth investigating because the spatial distribution smectites and the orientation of guests may affect the physicochemical characteristics .…”