“…There are several methods for synthesizing nanosized ceramic materials, such as, hydrothermal, co-precipitation, combustion, sol-gel, precursor, spray drying and freeze drying, microemulsion and reverse micelle method and microwave techniques (Suresh et al 1991;Awschalom and Vincenzo 1995;Pileni and Moumen 1996;Yu and Gadalla 1996;Dawson 1998;Maclaren and Ponton 1998;Albuquerque et al 1999;Chen et al 1999;Gajbhiye et al 1999;Liu et al 2000;Basavaraja et al 2007;Lagashetty et al 2007). Among these methods, the hydrothermal synthesis, which is one of the soft solution routes, is of current interest and is attractive and a promising method to obtain nanocrsytalline metal oxide particles.…”