“…6 Until now, several chemical approaches have been developed for the synthesis of CoFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles, among which the hydrothermal method, 7,8 liquid-phase co-precipitation 9 and sol-gel process 10 are those which are relatively conventional and have been well established. By utilizing the methods mentioned above, lots of novel nanostructures of CoFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles, for example, nanorings, 11 nanowires 12 and nanoplates, 13 have been obtained. However, when talking about applications of nanomaterials, possession of large specific surface areas (SSAs) is always what we expect, but CoFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles obtained via those conventional methods, regretfully, could hardly meet the expectations with poor SSAs generally lower than 70 m 2 g À1 .…”