“…Adsorbents such as fly ash, [22,23] charcoal, [24] peat, [25] sawdust, [26] lignite, [27] wood, [28] chitosan, [11,29] have attracted greater interest, mainly because of their natural availability and low cost. In addition, graphene‐based materials, [15] polymers, [30] zeolites, [31] and structurally and morphologically engineered semiconducting metal oxides like NiO, [32] Fe 2 O 3 , [33] MnO 2 , [34] ZnO, [35] V 2 O 5 , [17,36,37] Co 3 O 4 , [38] CuO, [39,40] are another category of adsorbents/catalysts which possess better physicochemical stability when compared to classical adsorbents and have found various applications in the removal of cationic/anionic dyes [17,37,39,41–43] . Introduction of foreign cation to V 2 O 5 is always a versatile area of research [44,45,46] and there are plenty of reports on Li, Ni, Bi, Co, Mn, and Mo‐doped vanadium pentoxide systems creating single‐phase as well as mixed‐phase compounds, composites and alloys with enhanced physical and catalytic properties [47–50] .…”