Structural, Magnetic and Catalytic Properties of a New Vacancy Ordered Perovskite Type Barium Cobaltate BaCoO2.67
Aamir Iqbal Waidha1, Humera Khatoon Siddiqui2, Yuji Ikeda3
1Materials Synthesis Group, Institute of Material Science, University of Stuttgart, Hesisenbergstraße 3, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstract:
A new vacancy ordered, anion deficient perovskite modification with composition of BaCoO2.67 (Ba3 Co3 O8 □1 ) has been prepared via a two-step heating process. Combined Rietveld analysis of neutron and X-ray powder diffraction data shows a novel ordering of oxygen vacancies not known before for barium cobaltates. A combination of neutron powder diffraction, magnetic measurements, and density functional theory (DFT) studies confirms G-type antiferromagnetic ordering. From impedance measurements, the electronic conductivity of the order of 10-4 S cm-1 is determined. Remarkably, the bifunctional catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is found to be comparable to that of Ba0.5 Sr0.5 Co0.8 Fe0.2 O3-y , confirming that charge-ordered anion deficient non-cubic perovskites can be highly efficient catalysts.
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