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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 380306, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/380306 Research Article Size Effect on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Nanosized Perovskite LaFeO3 Prepared by Different Methods Nguyen Thi Thuy1 and Dang Le Minh2 1 Department of Physics, College of Education, Hue University, 34 Le Loi, Hue City, Vietnam 2 Faculty of Physics, Hanoi University of Sciences, VNU, 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi City, Vietnam Correspondence should be addressed to Nguyen Thi Thuy, nguyenthithuy0206@ Received 24 April 2012; Accepted 19 June 2012 Academic Editor: David Cann Copyright © 2012 N. T. Thuy and D. L. Minh. 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. Nanosized LaFeO3 material was prepared by 3 methods: high energy milling, citrate gel, and coprecipitation. The X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) show that the orthorhombic LaFeO3 ◦ phase was well formed at a low sintering temperature of 500 C in the citrate-gel and co-precipitation methods. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations indicate that the particle size of the LaFeO3 powder varies from 10 nm to 50 nm depending on the preparation method. The magnetic properties through magnetization versus temperature M (T) and magnetization verses magnetic field M (H ) characteristics show that the nano-LaFeO3 exhibits a weak ferromagnetic behavior in the roo