en Research Paper Research Paper <b><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><p align="left"><font size="2">Abstract: </font></p><p align="left"><font size="2">as magnetic materials, semiconductors, pigments, catalysts, refractories and electronic ceramics. In this paper, we</font></p><p align="left"><font size="2">reported the preparation of NiAl</font></p><p align="left"><font size="2">The resulting powder was chracterized by XRD, particle size analysis and SEM. The XRD patterns show that the</font></p><p align="left"><font size="2">combustion technique was excellent to prepare single – phased cubic NiAl</font></p><p align="left"><font size="2">found to be around 14 nm. From the particle size analysis, it was found that the 50 % of the particles lie below 30</font></p><p align="left"><font size="2">µm. The micrographs show the formation of fluffy agglomerates composed of fine particles.</font></p></font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font size="2">Spinels constitute an advanced group of materials with great technologial appeal, being able to be applied</font></font></font><font size="2"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">2</font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">O</font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">4 </font></font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font size="2">spinels by low temperature combustion technique using glycine and urea as fuels.</font></font></font><font size="2"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">2</font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">O</font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">4 </font></font></font><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><font size="2">particles and the crystallite sizes were</font></font></font></b> Nickel Aluminate Spinel, Combustion technique, Characterization 36 44 http://ijmse.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3-125&slc_lang=en&sid=1 K. Christine Stella 180031947532846001307 180031947532846001307 No A. Samson Nesaraj * drsamson@karunya.edu 180031947532846001308 180031947532846001308 Yes