Correlations between synthetic conditions and catalytic activity of LaMO₃ perovskite-like oxide materials (M: Fe, Co, Ni): The key role of glycine

Abstract

Herein N₂O decomposition over LaMO₃ (M: Fe, Co, Ni) mixed oxides with perovskite structures has been optimized. The influence of the organic additive and the additive to (La³⁺ + Co²⁺) molar ratio on phase composition, particle aggregate size, textural properties, and catalytic activity of LaCoO₃ has been determined for the first time. Glycine improved the phase purity of LaCoO₃, enhanced the specific surface area and pore volume, and shifted the pore size distribution to the wider mesopore and macropore regions. LaCoO₃ showed better activity than LaFeO₃ and LaNiO₃ owing to the greater reducibility of Co³⁺ and its large specific surface area, and correlations between the La³⁺:Co²⁺ molar ratio, particle aggregate size, pore volume for pores larger than 25 nm, and N₂O decomposition activity for LaCoO₃ have been determined. Changes in the LaCoO₃ textural properties following catalytic experiments with 10% water vapor added to the feed have also been analyzed here-in.

Keywords

N₂O decomposition / LaCoO₃ / Bulk perovskites / Glycine / Textural properties

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Petr Zemlianskii: Writing - original draft, Methodology, Investigation. Daniil Morozov: Formal analysis, Data curation. Gennady Kapustin: Validation. Nikolai Davshan: Software, Resources. Konstantin Kalmykov: Formal analysis, Data curation. Vladimir Chernyshev: Visualization. Alexander Kustov: Writing - original draft, Methodology. Leonid Kustov: Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 23-73-30007).

Supplementary materials

Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.chphma.2024.12.002. Additional text (Text S1-S4) and figures (Fig. S1-S2) are provided in the Supporting Information.

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