In this paper, we present the influence of temperature on the Kirkendall effect-related evolution of coaxialZnO/Al
2O
3 one-dimensional heterostructures based on a solid-state reaction. Controllable fabrication of
spinelZnAl
2O
4-based nanotubes and porous nanowires can step-by-step be achieved from ZnO/Al
2O
3 core-shellnanowires with a change in the reaction temperature. In particular, we demonstrate that the formation ofcompletely hollow nanotubes in this system is not strictly limited to a fixed stoichiometry of ZnO/Al
2O
3required for the
spinel-forming reaction when an annealing temperature of 800
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C is employed. Combinedwith atomic layer deposition, the wall thickness of the formed nanotubes can be further precisely tailored anddefined. Our finding provides an effective route to fabricate
spinel nanotubes as well as nanotube arrays ona large scale.