“…Many researchers used various adsorbent for removal of CR from aqueous solution such as fly ash (Dizge et al 2008), bentonite (Lian et al 2009), montmorillonite (Wang and Wang 2008), chitosan (Chatterjee et al 2009), organoattapulgite (Chen and Zhao 2009), activated carbon (Lorenc-Grabowska and Gryglewicz 2007; Namasivayam and Kavitha 2002;Purkait et al 2007), bottom ash and deoiled soya (Mittal et al 2009), Azadirachta indica leaf powder (Bhattacharyya and Sharma 2004), Trametes versicolor (Binupriya et al 2008), jute stick powder (Panda et al 2009), Aspergillus niger (Fu and Viraraghavan 2002), cattail root (Hu et al 2010a, b), anilinepropylsilica xerogel (Pavan et al 2008), perlite (Vijayakumar et al 2009), sawdust (Jain and Sikarwar 2008), rice husk ash (Chowdhury et al 2009), mesoporous hematite (a-Fe 2 O 3 ) (Yu et al 2008) and CNTs/b-FeOOH (Song et al 2012). However, some of these adsorbents do not have good adsorption capacities for anionic dyes.…”