Removal of rhodamine B from aqueous solutions using vanadium pentoxide/titanium butyl oxide hybrid xerogels

Mukhtar Surayya^{1, 2, †}, Liu Mona^{1, 2}, Han Jie^{1, 2}, Gao Wei^{1, 2, ‡}

(color online) (a) XRD patterns of the pure V₂O₅ xerogel, V₂O₅/TBO hybrid xerogel and dye loaded hybrid xerogel. (b) Increase in the d spacing as measured by the shift in the (001) peak in the RhB loaded V₂O₅/TBO xerogel.