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Electrochemical fabrication of CuAl2O4-Cu hybrid nanorods at room temperature Ding Da-wei1, Cai Wei-min1, 2*, Long Ming-ce1, Wu Ya-hui3 （1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090; 3. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China）Abstract: Among various methods used for fabrication of nanoarrays, template synthesis using electrodepositon has been proved a low cost and high yield technique for producing large arrays of nanowires or nanorods. Herein, we present an electrochemical fabrication of CuAl2O4-Cu hybrid nanorod arrays in ordered anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) film nanotubes. The nucleation and growth of CuAl2O4 nanocrystallite was favored by a comfortable electro-chemical environment, especially, the applied potential, which was investigated in details. The diameter of the nanorods was in accordance with the size of AAO nanotube (40-50 nm), with lengths of 600 to 700 nm. Photocatalysis experiment of the as synthesized CuAl2O4-Cu hybrid arrays showed considerable degradation rate of methyl orange under visible-light irradiation, which rendered potential application for the degradation of other recalcitrant organic pollutants in water purification. Keywords: spinel, CuAl2O4-Cu hybrid, template synthesis, photocatalysis Introduction Low dimensional spinel compounds have drawn considerable attention for their wide variety of technological applications in electronic, catalytic, and magnetic properties (Ammundsen and Paulsen 2001; Luders et al. 2006; Zhang et al. 2005; Jeong et al. 2007; Nasr-Allah 2002; Dhak 2006). Aluminum based spinels constitute an important class of its kind. Copper aluminate, CuAl2O4, is well known to be an inverse spinel and possesses interesting electronic and catal