Self‐Assembled 3D Flowerlike Iron Oxide Nanostructures and Their Application in Water Treatment

An ethylene-glycol-mediated self-assembly process is adopted to synthesize 3D flowerlike nanostructures of iron oxide (see figure) using inexpensive and nontoxic ferric chloride. A two-stage growth process is identified during the morphological evolution of the iron oxide precursor. α-Fe2O3, γ-Fe2O3... View More