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Perovskites elicited an enormous interest in the past two decades and many practical applications have been investigated looking for their potential use in processes of interest. Perovskite-type structures and related mixed oxides highlighted their capacity to accommodate a wide range of transition metals sometimes in unusual oxidation states and with the possibility to stabilize high concentration of defective sites. All these electronic and structural features give rise to unexpected physicochemical properties, some of them being already exploited. Thus, the development of perovskite-based two-way catalysts at the beginning of the 1970s can be considered as one of the most prominent industrial achievements at that time. More recently, the car manufacturer Daihatsu installed novel post-combustion catalytic systems based on the so-called concept of self-regeneration mechanism with intelligent catalysts since it can recognize the atmosphere by itself and change its state automatically. Perovskite structures may also exhibit different physical properties such as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and thermal conductivity.
These solids are often represented as a simple cubic structure. However, pioneering investigations revealed complex chemistry for those materials involving distortions and order–disorder phenomena. By way of illustration, the discovery of colossal magnetoresistance for this variety of mixed oxides stimulated the emergence of new concepts for understanding magnetotransport properties. Today, many research groups are involved in related problems of charge ordering, complex phase separation, and Jahn–Teller effect as crucial parameters for understanding those properties. Hence, one can take advantage of several key parameters that will govern the intrinsic properties of perovskites with a general formula ABO3, such as a wide variety of compositions by partial substitution of A and B sites preserving their structural properties, a well-defined structure that allows extensive bulk and surface characterization, valency and stoichiometry that can widely vary originating peculiar properties, and vast physical and chemical information already accumulated in the literature in the past two decades. Of course, one can play with those chemical and physical features for elaborating different strategies in order to improve their physicochemical properties and more particularly their catalytic performances. For instance, the selection of the B-site cation to get synergistic effects on the activity, the control of the valency and vacancy, the specific surface area enhancement or alternatively enhancement of the perovskite dispersion on a substrate, and finally the improvement of their properties by adding small amounts of noble metals remaining highly dispersed through the occurrence of strong interactions with the perovskite structure can be equally considered for improving the physicochemical properties of those solids.
For a long time, the poor control of their homogeneous composition with detrimental segregation of impurities has likely slow down their development and the introduction of novel preparation routes probably contributes to a growing practical interest that can justify a significant increase in publications and patents since 2000. Tremendous efforts led to the development of facile synthesis routes under mild conditions with unique physicochemical properties, especially their textural properties, and then widening their utilization to low-temperature applications. At the same time, the development of bulk and surface characterization typically under working conditions allows the characterization of complex surface reconstructions that facilitate the establishment of reliable structure–activity relationships. Today, a detailed nanoscopic characterization of surface processes, influencing the final design of active sites under working conditions, is of prime importance especially to rationalize the synthesis strategies.
The general objectives of this scientific book entitled Perovskites and Related Mixed Oxides are to highlight the most important achievements in the past two decades from the synthesis and related characterization methods to their practical applications especially in the field of environmental and sustainable physicochemical applications. A final part will be dedicated to new prospects of developments of those solids as carriers or catalysts. This book addresses more particularly the postgraduates and the Ph.D. students as well as the young qualified researchers starting on the subject. Today, scientists need to develop more rational approaches that consist in developing more efficient chemical and physical applications integrating atom economy and lower energy consumption. Hence, combined approaches including the rationalization of synthesis protocol perovskites to tune properly their structural and textural properties as well as a better integration of the solid in the reactor design may significantly contribute to a sustainable development.
Accordingly, this book will be divided into three parts. The first one will present the different progresses in synthesis methods from molten salts at high temperature to colloidal crystal template methods that allow a better control of the composition and textural properties with three-dimensionally ordered mesoporous solids. Physicochemical techniques currently used to characterize the functionalities of those materials will be depicted with principles of those techniques and relevant illustrations. Oxygen transport in perovskites and related mixed oxides has been the subject of a large number of publications based on the utilization of a wide range of techniques and led to various applications that will be examined. Their electric and magnetic properties will be extensively discussed. At the same time, oxygen diffusion of those materials has attracted the scientific community for the development of solid electrolyte membranes and electrochemical membrane reactors.
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