“…To date, OA mechanism has been used to fabricate different metal/metal oxides/ metal hydroxides 1D nanostructures to use in different applications. Few recent examples of controlled synthesis of different nanorods and nanowires are Au [34], NiO [35], Sb 2 O 3 [36], Co 3 O 4 [35], ZnO [37][38][39], TiO 2 [40], MnO 2 [41],CuO [42,43], Cu (OH) 2 [44], and GaOOH [45] for optoelectronic devices, electrochemical devices, and supercapacitors. Although these metal/metal oxide nanostructures have been cited as OA mechanism-based nanostructures, only few studies have investigated the crystal growth mechanism with the understanding of their guiding principles.…”