Adsorption Characteristics of Reactive Red 2BF onto MnFe2O4 Nanorods Fabricated by the Facile Alcohol-Solution Combustion–Calcination Technique
Magnetic MnFe2O4 nanorods were fabricated by the alcohol-solution combustion–calcination technique. The morphology, microstructure, and composition of as-prepared MnFe2O4 nanorods were characterized using the transmission electron microscopy (TEM), the X-ray diffraction (XRD), the energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and the vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Moreover, the magnetic MnFe2O4 nanorods were employed to remove reactive red 2BF (RR-2BF), the experimental results showed the pseudo-second-order kinetics model could be applied to describe the adsorption process of RR-2BF onto MnFe2O4 nanorods in the initial RR-2BF concentrations of 100–400 mg/L, while, the isotherm data of RR-2BF onto MnFe2O4 nanorods could conform to Langmuir model owing to the value of the square deviations, which revealed that, the adsorption of RR-2BF onto MnFe2O4 nanorods was the monolayer adsorption mechanism.