“…In the past few decades, the sol-gel method (combined with other techniques including microwave heating, ultrasonication, spin-coating, dip coating, laminar flow coating, and strong field induction) have been used to prepare various kinds of advanced materials with different morphologies including magnetic [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], optical [11,12,13], electronic [14,15], and structural [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25] particles, and hollow spheres [26], fibers [27], nanowires [28] and films [29,30,31,32,33,34]. Many reviews have been published on the preparation of particles and coatings using the sol-gel process; for instance, Guo et al [35] summarized the sol-gel synthesis and application of monodisperse nanoparticles and granules including Li 2 TiO 3 , ZnO-B 2 O 3 -SiO 2 additive, La 1−x Sr x CoO 3-δ (x = 0.1 − 0.7) and Y 3 Al 5 O 12 .…”