“…This technique provides relatively low process temperature and reduces processing time. Various morphologies of ␣-Fe 2 O 3 such as stalactite-like, coral-like, cluster-like, cube, porous, snowflake-like, star-like, ringlike, urchin-like, hexagonal, nanotubes, nanoplatelets, nanorods, flower-like, nanospheres, nanoaggregates and nanorhombohedra with a wide range of the magnetic properties have been reported showing huge possibilities of the hydrothermal method [1,10,16,19,28,31,38,39,42,43,[61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]. However, only a few reports involve the formation of ␣-Fe 2 O 3 plate-like structures [59,[70][71][72][73][74][75].…”