“…As shown in Fig. 2 b, NC@α-Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticle shows the presence of characteristics peaks corresponding to 24.1°, 33.1°, 35.6°, 40.8°, 49.4°, 54.05°, 62.42° and 63.9° for (102), (104), (110), (113), (024), (116), (214) and (300) planes of nanocubes α-Fe 2 O 3 phase, respectively (Pan et al 2021 ; Liu et al 2019 ). The characteristic peaks of the XRD peaks of α-FeOOH and α-Fe 2 O 3 indicate the high purity of the obtained nanoflowers and nanocubes.…”