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Hydrothermal method has been proven to be an effective method to synthesise the nanostructured titanium dioxide (TiO₂) with good morphology and uniform distribution at low temperature. Despite of employing a well-known and commonly used glass substrate as the support to hydrothermally synthesise the nanostructured TiO₂, this study emphasised on the application of kaolin hollow fibre membrane as the support for the fabrication of kaolin/TiO₂ nanorods (TNR) membrane. By varying the hydrothermal reaction times (2 h, 6 h, and 10 h), the different morphology, distribution, and properties of TiO₂ nanorods on kaolin support were observed by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), atomic force microscope (AFM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). It was found that the well-dispersed of TiO₂ nanorods have …