“…20 Akaganeite is interesting due to its structural, magnetic and catalytic properties, as well as for practical applications such as for the removal of pollutants, sorption, ion-exchange, lithium-air batteries. [22][23][24][25][26][27] Moreover, the β-FeOOH phase is important and widely used as a precursor in the 4 preparation of iron, hematite, maghemite and magnetite nanosized materials. 16,[28][29][30][31][32] Akaganeite is an antiferromagnetic material with a Néel temperature in the range of T N ≈ 240-299 K. 12,20,33 A substantial reduction of the Néel temperature, down to T N = 15 K, has been observed in amorphous β-FeOOH nanowires.…”