“…In addition to the classical solid state synthesis [7], various hydrothermal syntheses were performed to obtain Bi 25 FeO 40 powders. The reported hydrothermal processes were mostly carried out with non−stoichiometric initial Bi/Fe ratios of 1, despite of the Bi/Fe ratio of 25 according to the chemical formula of iron sillenite [5,13,14,17,15,21,27,28]. A solvothermal synthesis by Dai and Yin [23] with an initial ratio of Bi/Fe = 24 led to Bi 25 FeO 40 with small amounts of Bi 2 O 3 .…”