“…Up to now, various methods, including template synthesis, 12 hydrothermal method, 11 chemical vapor deposition, 13 precipitation method, 14,15 precursor decomposition, 16 sol-gel technique 17 and so on, 18,19 have been developed for the preparation of different morphologies of MgO. The reported morphologies of MgO are mainly composed of spherical structures, 14 nanowires, nanotubes or nanobelts, 20 nanoflowers, 21 nanosheets, 22 cubes, 23 whiskers, 24 stacks of plates, 25 rectangular parallelepiped structures, 26 columnar structures 27 and coralline.…”