A modified molten salt technique, in which the precursors were first heated up to 1000°C and then followed by holding at 800°C for isothermal treatment, was used to prepare Lu 2 Ti 2 O 7 nano-rods while TiO 2 and Lu 2 O 3 were chosen as precursors. Well-isolated cubic pyrochlore Lu 2 Ti 2 O 7 nano-rods with diameters ranging from 50 to 500nm and length up to several microns, containing only minor amounts of impurities, can be easily fabricated by this route. The crystal structure and morphologies of the nano-rods were further characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM, EDS, RAMAN and HRTEM technique. The results indicated that Lu 2 Ti 2 O 7 nano-rod is single crystalline and the growth direction of the obtained nano-rods is determined to be the <111> crystallography direction.