Title: Ambient-pressure ozone treatment enables tuning of oxygen vacancy concentration in the La _{1− x} Sr _x FeO _{3− δ} (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) perovskite oxides

Abstract

Oxygen vacancies in metal oxides can determine their properties. However, it is difficult to reduce the oxygen vacancy concentration in metal oxides without annealing them under high pressure. In this work, we develop a facile approach to control oxygen vacancy content via an ozone treatment under ambient pressure during cooling. This approach is demonstrated for the synthesis of La_1–xSr_xFeO_3–δ (0 ≤ x ≤ 1, 0 ≤ δ ≤ 0.5x) perovskite oxides – an important class of energy-related materials due to their wide range of non-stoichiometry, mixed ionic and electronic conductivity, and the presence of a rare Fe(IV) oxidation state. A series of La_1–xSr_xFeO_3–δ compounds was initially synthesized using a polymerized complex method. The concentration of oxygen vacancies and Fe(IV) were determined by redox titration, and the crystal structures were derived by analyzing X-ray diffraction patterns using Rietveld refinement. Significant amounts of oxygen vacancies were found in the as-synthesized compounds with x ≥ 0.8: La_0.2Sr_0.8FeO_3–δ (δ = 0.066) and SrFeO_3–δ (δ = 0.195). The ambient-pressure ozone treatment approach was able to substantially reduce the amount of oxygen vacancies in these compounds to achieve levels near the oxygen stoichiometry of 3 for La_0.2Sr_0.8FeO_3–δ (δ = 0.006) and SrFeO_3–δ (δ = 0.021). Themore » oxygenation/deoxygenation kinetics can be tuned by the cooling rate after annealing. As the oxygen vacancy concentration decreases, the structure of SrFeO_3–δ evolves from orthorhombic to cubic, demonstrating that the crystal structures in metal oxides can be highly sensitive to the number of oxygen vacancies. The ozone treatment approach developed in this study may thus offer a robust means to tune the properties of a wide variety of metal oxides.« less

Authors:

Qing, Geletu ^[1]; Thompson, David  ^[1];

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Benamara, Mourad ^[2]; Heske, Clemens  ^[3];

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Greenlee, Lauren  ^[4];

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Chen, Jingyi  ^[1]

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1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
2. Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA, Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation (IPS) and Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Publication Date:

Mon Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2022

Research Org.:

Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE

OSTI Identifier:

1887303

Alternate Identifier(s):

OSTI ID: 1988015

Grant/Contract Number:  

SC0021308

Resource Type:

Published Article

Journal Name:

Materials Advances

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Name: Materials Advances Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 2633-5409

Publisher:

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Country of Publication:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Subject:

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE