“…Transition metal spinel oxides are technologically important as magnetic materials, semiconductors, pigments and as effective catalysts for number of industrial processes, such as aluminum production [1][2][3][4], oxidative dehydrogenation of butane to butadiene, two step thermochemical methane reforming [5], hydrodesulphurization of petroleum, photo-catalytic reactions [6], CO oxidation [7], treatment of automotive exhausted gases [8], hydrogen production by steam reforming of DME [9][10][11], etc. Copper ferrite is an inverse ferromagnetic spinel, which could be described as a cubic closed packed arrangement of oxygen ions with Cu 2 þ and Fe 3 þ cations in tetrahedral (A) and octahedral (B) coordination.…”