Multiferroic compound ͑Bi 0.9 Pb 0.1 ͒͑Fe 0.9 Ti 0.1 ͒O 3 ͑BPFTO͒, having particle size of 15-25 nm, was synthesized by solution combustion method. BPFTO shows the coexistence of ferroelectricity and magnetism at room temperature. Significant enhancement in magnetic moment with moderate value of the electrical polarization is observed for nano-BPFTO. Remanent polarization and maximum polarizations were 1.056 and 1.866 C / cm 2 , respectively ͑at 20 kV/cm͒, with remanent magnetization of 285 memu/g. Such materials, possessing good value of dielectric constant and showing ferroelectric and ferromagnetism in same phase, are of great importance from technical point of view. © 2008 American Institute of Physics. ͓DOI: 10.1063/1.3030989͔In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in multiferroic materials, which have simultaneously two or more order parameters such as ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, and/or ferroelastic ordering. 1,2 Coupling between magnetic and electric ordering leads to electromagnetic ͑EM͒ effect. The EM effect provides an additional degree of freedom in designing of functional sensor, current devices, transducers, and multistate memory devices. 3,4 However there is a scarcity of materials exhibiting magnetoelectric behavior at room temperature, which is possibly due to the fact that the transition metal d electron, essential in the presence of magnetic moment, also reduces lattice distortion. Lattice distortion is essential in the presence of the ferroelectric behavior. The perovskite BiFeO 3 ͑BFO͒ is one of the few known magnetoelectric multiferroics in which ferroelectric ͑T c ϳ 830°C͒ and antiferromagnetic ͑AF͒ ͑T N ϳ 370°C͒ order parameters coexist up to quite high temperature. 5,6 In BFO, Bi-O orbital hybridization due to Bi 6s 2 lone pair is responsible for ferroelectric instability while Fe-O-Fe Dzyaloshinski Moriyaantisymmetric interaction ͑DMI͒ gives rise to complicated magnetic structure. 7 The structural properties of bulk BFO single crystal have been extensively studied and have been shown to possess rhombohedral distorted perovskite structure and space group R3C at room temperature. 8 The spontaneous polarization of bulk BFO was expected to be 90-110 C / cm 2 ͑Ref. 9͒ because of large atomic displacement and a high Curie temperature. However, a small polarization has been observed in bulk BFO single crystal 10 and BFO bulk ceramics, 11 and their hysteresis loops were not saturated, which were attributed to the high level of leakage due to charge defects and nonstoichiometry. 12 To overcome these leakage problems ion substitution 13,14 or solid solution with other perovskite materials 15,16 has been tried, and wellsaturated hysteresis loop with remanent polarization has recently been reported in single phase BiFeO 3 ceramics. 17,18 Stoichiometric BFO has a G type AF structure 19 and has residual magnetic moment due to the canting of magnetic moments arising from oxygen vacancies. 20 In the present work we report the synthesis and study of electric and magnetic properties of th...