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Journal of Alloys and Compounds 449 (2008) 28–31 Soft-chemistry synthesis of LiNbO3 crystallites Meinan Liu, Dongfeng Xue ∗, Keyan Li State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 158 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116012, PR China Received 4 November 2005; received in revised form 28 February 2006; accepted 5 March 2006 Available online 29 December 2006 Abstract Lithium niobate (LiNbO3 , LN) crystallites were successfully synthesized by soft-chemistry synthesis methods of sol–gel and hydrothermal process, respectively. It has been found that pure LiNbO3 powders could be prepared at about 600 and 240 ◦C by sol–gel and hydrothermal routes, respectively. X-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared spectra (IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to further investigate the quality of the obtained LiNbO3 powders by both synthesis routes. The present work shows that the hydrothermal method is superior to the sol–gel method since it may facilely obtain high purity, better crystallinity and uniform morphology lithium niobate powders. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Lithium niobate; Sol–gel; Hydrothermal synthesis 1. Introduction materials is control of the composition and homogeneity in sin- gle crystals for a long time. Therefore, the biggest challenge in In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in synthesizing LN materia