The values for the crystallite size and microstrain of the undoped and Ni-doped CeO2-NPs obtained from the Rietveld and Halder–Wagner (H–W) methods.
| Crystallite size (nm) | Strain ×103 (no unit) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scherrer's method | Rietveld method | (H–W) method | Scherrer's method | Rietveld method | (H–W) method | |
| Undoped CeO2-NPs | 5.66 | 5.42 | 4.62 | — | 0.86 | 0.64 |
| 1% Ni-CeO2-NPs | 5.44 | 4.98 | 4.10 | — | 0.63 | 0.58 |
| 3% Ni-CeO2-NPs | 5.20 | 4.71 | 3.98 | — | 0.59 | 0.53 |
| 5% Ni-CeO2-NPs | 5.00 | 4.32 | 3.56 | — | 0.51 | 0.48 |