Direct thermal decomposition of FeCl3.6H2O in oleic acid forms hematite cube and nano octahedron structure with quasicrystalline and supercell symmetries for enhanced photoelectrochemical functionality

The production of highly efficientvisible‐light‐driven electrospunα‐Fe2O3photocatalyst through modifying iron source material for wastewater treatment applications

“…In recent years, the shape-controllable synthesizes of nanoparticle materials have attracted the focus of research due to the size-and shape-dependent remarkable properties of nanostructured materials [47]. Up to now, the well-defined hematite forms with countless morphologies and dimensionalities, including nanotube [48], hollow spheres [49], rods [50], ellipsoids [51], wires [52], cubic [53,54], hexagonal platelets [51], bipyramid, double ellipsoid [55], plate [56], and belts [57], have been fabricated. The formation of these nanoparticles with diverse shapes and dimensionalities has been adjusted by controlling so many kinetic (e.g., diffusion of reactants, surface adhesion of surfactants) and thermodynamic (e.g., the relative stability of crystal polymorphs) complicated factors associated with each other [58].…”