“…Metal oxides nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely exploited for many different areas such as toxic pollutants removal ( Gowthaman et al, 2020 ; Yang et al, 2020 ; Zhou et al, 2021 ), drug delivery ( He et al, 2019 ; Mallakpour et al, 2022 ), hydrogen production ( Chen et al, 2015 ; Bhosale et al, 2016 ; Chen et al, 2018 ), CO 2 reduction ( Loh and Kherani, 2019 ; Sun et al, 2021 ; Kuan et al, 2022 ), optoelectronics ( C. Nehru et al, 2012 ; Jayakumar et al, 2022 ; Wang et al, 2010 ), etc., Controllable growth of metal oxides NPs with defined morphology such as spherical, rod-like, sheet-like, cubic amongst others have been synthesized and reported to have an influence on their catalytic properties.…”