Angel Macia1,*, Pablo Taboada2,3 and Alfredo Gonzalez-Perez4,5
* Email: macia@arcadiasolutions.se
It is recognized that a large variety of the organic compounds contaminating the environment can form inclusion complexes with cyclodextrins resulting in enhanced solubility as mentioned in a recent review on cyclodextrins for
environmental biotechnologies [x]. Micelle-clay composites have been used for environmental remediation and for the removal of organic pollutants from water [2-5]. In this research we explore the use of cyclodextrins, known to for inclusion complexes and layers onto negatively charged surfaces when combined with cationic surfactants [6-7], to form a composite with clays using similar protocol to the described for micelle-clay composite preparation by Gonzalez-Perez and Macia [8] for the removal of bacteria from water.