Titanium dioxide (TiO2(B), one of metastable polymorphs of TiO2 was prepared by hydrothermal reaction of glycolato peroxotitanium complex ([Ti-4(C2H2O3)(4)(C2H3O3)(2)(O-2)(2)](6) in the presence of H2SO4 as an additive. Characterization by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that the obtained powders were single-phase TiO2(B) with rod-like shape, Particle size and aspect ratio of TiO2(B) can be controlled by post-synthetic hydrothermal crystal growth (PHCG) of the as-prepared powder sample. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.