Abstract: The controlled growth of densely assembled single-phase rutile-TiO2 nanorods was demonstrated by a heating-sol-gel template process with about $\sim$300~nm in diameter and several micrometers in length. Transmission electron microscopic observation reveals these rutile-TiO2 nanorods are the aggregates of many nanocrystallites grown preferentially to the [110] zone axis direction with about 10~30 nm in diameter. The calculation and comparison of d-spacing values with those of bulk values suggest the crystal structure of nanorods close to bulk materials. Selected area electron diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy measurements confirm that the obtained nanorods are rutile-TiO2 nanorods with good compositional uniformity and consist of distinct shape of nanocrystallites with 10～30 nm diameter.

Key words: Rutile-TiO2, Sol-gel template process, TEM, EDS, Structural characterization