La. Isupova et al., EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL DISORDER ON THE CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF MIXED LA-SR-CO-FE-O PEROVSKITES, Reaction kinetics and catalysis letters, 62(1), 1997, pp. 129-135
For a perovskite system La0.7Sr0.3Co1-xFexO3, the effect of partial su
bstitution of Co by Fe on the particle microstructure and chemical com
position of the surface layer has been studied. Iron incorporation was
found to cause a structure rearrangement from the hexagonal (at x < 0
.05) to the cubic (at x>0.05) type, which was not accompanied by any a
ppreciable variation of the surface layer composition. A transient sam
ple with x= 0.05 was characterized by a high degree of misorientation
of microblocks and had the highest activity in the CO catalytic oxidat
ion.