“…Various chemical routes have been already adopted by many authors to synthesize nanocrystalline NiFe 2 O 4 including a sonochemical process, co-precipitation, sol-gel, shock wave, reverse micelle and hydrothermal methods (Chen and He, 2001;Sagar, 2011;Sivakumar et al, 2009;Prasad and Gajbhiye, 1998;Shi et al, 1999;Liu et al, 2001;Kale et al, 2004;Zhou et al, 2005). Among them gel combustion process using hydroxyl carboxylic acids (citric acid) as chelating agents is experimentally proved to be simple and cost effective (Sutka and Mezinskis, 2012;Sivakumar et al, 2011;Barati and Seyyed Ebrahimi, 2008). The principle of this method is based on the distribution of metal ions within the polymeric network to avoid the segregation.…”