“…Various methods such as ball milling method, citrate precursor method, co-precipitation method [11,30], hydrothermal method [31], Pechini method [32], micro emulsion method [33], solid-state method [34,35], solution-combustion method [11], and sol gel auto combustion method [32,[36][37][38] have already been put to use for SrM synthesis (in pure and doped form). Literature survey shows that sol gel auto combustion has several benefits over other techniques [11,[39][40][41][42]. These benefits include low cost, simplicity, lower phase formation temperature and better control over grain size.…”