We are carrying out adsorption experiments of antibiotics using clay and other inorganic sorbents. Is it necessary to include some salts to attain certain ionic strength to support the adsorption process?
First you need to screen your sorbent and that needs to be carried out at constant ionic strengths, temperature, etc. After the selection do a study on the effect of the ionic strength on the adsorption.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_out -- something similar may happen with the compound and the sorbent as ionic strength increases. Depending upon the sorbent and the compound and the salt, salt bridges may be a possibility -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_bridge_(protein_and_supramolecular) but adding the possibility of a 3 way interaction between sorbent, salt ions, and compound.