“…Recently, the use of microwave heating was proven to be effective for ceramic compounds in the field of powder preparation with both expected and unexpected merits: e.g., kinetic enhancement, low reaction temperature, time reduction, control of the overall particle size and aggregation process as well as new and interesting properties. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] On the other hand, further research by our group has significantly expanded our efforts to demonstrate that the MWHT method is one of the most efficient, versatile, and highly cost-effective approaches to obtain crystalline, single-phase micro and/or nanoscale materials at lower temperatures and shorter reaction times but with little residual impurities (normally \1 ppm) [29][30][31][32]. The low cost and convenience of the process, good reproducibility, high yield and clean reactions of the present synthetic method provide an incentive to scale it up for industrial production.…”