Low temperature molten-salt synthesis of nanocrystalline cubic Sr2SbMnO6

The as synthesized powders of Sr2SbMnO6 calcined at 900 °C/10 h yielded a cubic phase (∼60 nm sized crystallites). Centrosymmetric tetragonal (I4/mcm) phase was obtained by increasing the calcination temperature to 1000 °C.