“…There have been a number of synthetic routes reported for the preparation of MgWO 4 nanostructures, including but not limited to the hydrothermal/solvothermal method, microwave-assisted reactions, the solid-state process and flux growth techniques, in addition to electrospinning and calcination-based protocols [4–12]. Use of these different procedures has led to the generation of various discrete and distinctive shapes, including nanowires [11], irregular nanoparticles[13,14], bulk formulations [4,10,15], nanosheets [6,8], nanoparticles [16], nanorods [3,8,17], wool balls [8,16] and stars [8,9]. In addition, it has been reported that both the monoclinic wolframite and the triclinic crystal phases of these metal tungstates can be produced, most frequently under high-temperature annealing conditions [6,8,11,13].…”