“…The location of the divalent cations (Ni 2+ ) in the crystal structure is almost homologous to the magnetic properties of the nickel ferrite. However, nickel ferrite shows super-paramagnetic nature and it has diverse applications such as gas-sensor, magnetic fluids, catalysts, magnetic storage systems, photomagnetic materials, site-specific drug delivery, magnetic resonance imaging and microwave devices [3][4][5][6][7] . Various methods such as hydrothermal method 8 , co-precipitation method 9 , gelassistant hydrothermal route 10 , thermolysis 11 , wet chemical co-precipitation technique 12 , self-propagating 13 , have been developed to prepare nanocrystallite nickel ferrite.…”