“…To obtain the BaFe 12 O 19 materials, different molar ratio of Ba:Fe:citricacid have been adopted (Durmus et al 2011;Xu et al 2006;Mali and Ataie 2004;Chen et al 2012;Ting and Wu 2010;Mali and Ataie 2005). According to the previous reports, the sol-gel processed materials are characterized by X-ray diffraction (Murthy et al 2012;Liu and Xiang 2010;Song et al 2010;Ping et al 2008;Ebrahimi et al 2012), thermal gravimetric analysis (Yu and Huang 2003;Yu and Liu 2006), Fouriertransform infrared, scanning electron microscope (Liu and Xiang 2010;Song et al 2010;Ebrahimi et al 2012), transmission electron microscope (Murthy et al 2012), magnetometer (Durmus et al 2011;Mali and Ataie 2005;Birsoza et al 2010;Xu et al 2006;Sozeri et al 2012;Mali and Ataie 2004;Qiu and Gu 2006) for quality, phase formation, thermal decomposition, surface morphology, and magnetic property of the synthesized BaFe 12 O 19 materials. From our recent near infrared (NIR) reflectivity study , the BaFe 12 O 19 material obtained by mechano-thermal process has been identified as NIR reflective color pigment due to its high NIR reflectivity in the region of wavelength 1750-2000 nm.…”