A h ierarchical flower-like SrTiO3 nanostructure was synthesized by a simple and direct hydrothermal method. The products were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Structure characterizations suggest that the as-synthesized SrTiO3 crystal has eight symmetric branches growing along the 111 direction and each branch has many ordered small laminae, forming a well-defined flower-like structure. By adjusting the pH value of the reaction system, the morphology could be changed continuously from flower-like structure to cube, then to sphere. The hierarchical flower-like SrTiO3 nanostructure exhibits a higher photocatalytic activity for degrading Rhodamine B than its cubic and spherical counterparts.In recent years, nanostructured materials have attracted considerable interest because of their unique physical and chemical properties as well as potential applications in various electronic devices [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. It is well-known that the morphology and microstructure of the inorganic materials strongly influence their properties, such as isotropic or anisotropic behavior and region-dependent surface reactivity [4,18]. Therefore, great effort has been devoted to synthesizing various inorganic materials with controlled shapes and complex assembled architectures, which are expected to offer superior properties for many applications in optics [15,19] properties. Moreover, SrTiO 3 with a band gap similar to that of titania, is also a very promising photocatalyst because of its superior photocorrosion resistibility, thermal stability, and easily doping to control the electrical properties [34][35][36][37]. Conventional solid-state reaction method for SrTiO 3 typically requires high reaction temperature above 900°C and usually results in the agglomeration of the particles with different sizes and impurity derived from incomplete reaction [38]. Recently, hydrothermal methods have attracted much attention due to high purity of their products and various SrTiO 3 nanostructured materials have been synthesized, such as nanocubes [38] Herein, we report a flower-like SrTiO 3 nanostructure with eight symmetric branches growing along the 111 direction. The shapes of SrTiO 3 crystals evolved from flower-like structure to cube, then to sphere by adjusting the pH value of the reaction system. Photocatalytic measurement for degrading Rhodamine B showed the high activity of the flower-like SrTiO 3 nanostructure, superior over its cubic and spherical counterparts. Fig. 1 shows the X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of the