“…Our group has worked to develop new optimized synthetic routes of nanoparticles, and among all the cases studied, magnetic ferrite nanoparticles deserve a special mention because of their huge range of applications in chemistry (Sheykhan et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2011), medicine (Amiri & Shokrollahi, 2013;Wu et al, 2011), electronics (Boon et al, 2012;Jin et al, 2012), materials (Ló pez et al, 2012;Singh et al, 2011), environmental applications (Tang & Lo, 2013) etc. To date, various synthetic methodologies have been developed to generate a family of MFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles, including co-precipitation (Maaz et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2010;Misra et al, 2004), reverse micelles (Rana et al, 2010) and solvothermal decomposition (Ma et al, 2013;Yá ñ ez-Vilar et al, 2009). We have optimized the generation of MFe 2 O 4 (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn) nanoparticles with a onepot methodology (Solano et al, 2012).…”