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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 163909, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/163909 Research Article Formation of Nanoscale Mg(x )Fe(1−x )O (x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.4) Structure by Solution Combustion: Effect of Fuel to Oxidizer Ratio Mohsen Ahmadipour, K. Venkateswara Rao, and V. Rajendar Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Institute of Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500085, India Correspondence should be addressed to K. Venkateswara Rao, kalagadda2003@ Received 25 July 2012; Accepted 10 October 2012 Academic Editor: Miguel A. Correa-Duarte Copyright © 2012 Mohsen Ahmadipour et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Mg(x )Fe(1−x ) O (magnesiowustite) nanopowder samples synthesized by solution-combustion method and fuel to oxidizer ratio (Ψ = 1, 1.25) are used as a control parameter to investigate how particle size and morphology vary with Ψ. The method is inexpensive and efficient for synthesis of oxide nanoparticles. The average crystallite size of Mg(x )Fe(1−x )O nanoparticles was estimated from the full-width-half maximum of the X-ray diffraction peaks of powders using Debye-Scherrer’s formula; the average crystallite size varies from 16 nm to 51 nm. From X-ray diffraction analysis, it was observed that Mg(x )Fe(1−x ) O nanoparticles have cubic structure. The particle size measured by particle size analyzer ranges from 37.7 nm to 73 nm which is in the order of XRD results. Thermal analysis was done by thermal gravimetric-differential thermal analyzer. The pa