“…Regarding nanopowder synthesis, different advanced routes already exist such as ball-milling, 8 co-precipitation, molten salts, spray or freeze-drying, 8,9 emulsion, spray-pyrolysis, solgel and hydrothermal processes. 10 In particular, this last method has been widely described by Ponton et al (1993) 11 and provides two major advantages: the minimization of temperature calcination or conditioning steps and the utilization of relatively inexpensive precursors.…”