“…The organic component, typically represented by glycine [6,8,10,12], citric acid [7,9,11], ethylene glycol [8] (or ethylene glycol with citric acid [5,11]), urea [4] and others [3], serves several purposes. First, it acts as a complexing agent [12][13][14]. In aqueous solutions the metal cations generally interact with the O, N-donor ligands, which helps to achieve a uniform distribution of the cations in the precursor polymetallic structure at the atomic level [15].…”