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Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 2012, 2, 21-25 /10.4236/gsc.2012.21004 Published Online February 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/gsc) Clay Modification by the Use of Organic Cations 1 2* 3 Pankil Singla , Rajeev Mehta , Siddh Nath Upadhyay 1School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thapar University, Patiala, India 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India 3Department of Chemical Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi, India * Email: rajeevmehta33@ Received November 16, 2011; revised December 25, 2011; accepted January 5, 2012 ABSTRACT To render layered silicates miscible with polymer matrices, one must convert the normally hydrophilic silicate surface to an organophilic one, making the intercalation of polymeric chain between silicate layers possible. This can be done by ion-exchange reactions with cationic surfactants. Sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT) was modified with several organic cationic surfactants. Organoclays with water soluble surfactants were prepared by the traditional cation ex- change reaction. An alternative procedure was used to prepare organoclays with water insoluble salts. The basal spacing and thermal behavior of organoclays were characterized by X-ray diffraction, XRD and Thermogravimetric analysis, TGA respectively. Keywords: Montmorillonite; Organo-Montmorillonite; Surfactant; Basal Spacing 1. Introduction By exchanging of sodium cations for organic cations that