“…Some short nanorods with a diameter and a length of approximately 30 and 300 nm, respectively, ad-here to the nanoscale particles. The short nanorods are considered to be formed from the nanoscale particles which are similar to the formation of the nanorods under the hydrothermal conditions reported by other groups [14,15,29]. As increasing the reaction temperature to 120°C, the number of the nanoparticles decreases sharply [Figure 4(b)], and the diameter and the length of the short nanorods increase to 60 nm and 2 μm, respectively.…”