Effluent water of industrial dyes has been a persistently taxing issue. However, the influential coexistent removal of different charge dye ions remains as a challenge. Herein, a one-plot eco-friendly route was developed to prepare flake-like graphite-derived edge-carboxylate graphene via dry ball milling at time intervals of 4 and 8 h for the simultaneous removal of oppositely charged dye ions. The prepared edge-carboxylate graphene (ECG(4h) and ECG(8h)) was confirmed using various analytical methods. Then, the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area and total pore volume exhibited ECG(8h), ECG(4h) and graphite value of 387.69, 316.47, 7.84 m(2) g(-1), and 0.55, 0.46, 0.03 cm(3) g(-1). ECG(4h) and ECG(8h) particle size distribution were analysed by DLS techniques. Zeta potential with various pH effects of ECG(4h) and ECG(8h) surface charge was used to determine the key role of dye adsorbent and desorption conditions. These experiments were performed under various pH values (acidic: 4.0 +/- 0.2, neutral: 7.0 +/- 0.2, basic: 10.0 +/- 0.2). Results show that the prepared adsorbent can clean dye-contaminated water by more than 99.7% +/- 0.2% within 5-20 min. The broad potential application indicates the performed filtration studies for the above-mentioned dyes using ECG(8h) of up to five cycles. As-prepared ECG(8h) material exhibits numerous advantages, including time-consuming, cost-effective and energy-efficient robust removal of dyes. (C 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
