“…Hydrothermal route has been extensively used in recent years due to easy control of chemical homogeneity, purity, morphology, shape, and phase composition of the products under moderate conditions [5,6]. Many important functional materials have been successfully prepared by hydrothermal route, such as microporous crystals, superionic conductors, chemical sensors, electronically conducting solids, complex oxide ceramics and fluorides, magnetic materials, and luminescence phosphors [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Basically, the mechanism of hydrothermal reactions abides by a liquid nucleation model [16].…”