Affiliation:
1. School of Chemistry and Physics, Westville Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
Abstract
Cubic and rhombohedral phases of lanthanum manganite were synthesized in a high-pressure reactor. A mixture of La and Mn nitrates with ethylene glycol at a synthesis temperature of 200 °C and a calcination temperature of up to 1000 °C, resulted in a single-phase perovskite, LaMnO3 validated using X-ray diffraction. Significant changes in unit cell volumes from 58 to 353 Å3 were observed associated with structural transformation from the cubic to the rhombohedral phase. This was confirmed using structure calculations and resistivity measurements. Transmission electron microscopy analyses showed small particle sizes of approximately 19, 39, 45, and 90 nm (depending on calcination temperature), no agglomeration, and good crystallinity. The particle characteristics, high purity, and high surface area (up to 33.1 m2/g) of the material owed to the inherent PAAR reactor pressure, are suitable for important technological applications, that include the synthesis of perovskite oxides. Characteristics of the synthesized LaMnO3 at different calcination temperatures are compared, and first-principles calculations suggest a geometric optimization of the cubic and rhombohedral perovskite structures.
Subject
General Materials Science
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