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Precision X-ray diffractometry with synchrotron radiation and transmission electron microscopy are used to show that the extent of hexagonal distortion of the perovskite cell of the (La1−x, Sr x )CoO3−δ system decreases and the microstructure of the samples changes when La is substituted by Sr; these changes are due to increased microstrains in the structure and subsequent formation of microunits. The microunit structure of particles in the region of the morphotropic transition 0.3≤x≤0.4, which is a consequence of the metastable state of the system, may be the reason for the high catalytic activity of the samples which we found previously.
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G. K. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 92–97, January–February, 1998.
This work was supported by RFFR grants 96-03-33103 and 97-03-33497.
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Tsybulya, S.V., Kryukova, G.N., Isupova, L.A. et al. Formation of a real structure of perovskites (La1−x , Sr x )CoO3−δ in the region of the morphotropic phase transition. J Struct Chem 39, 75–79 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02873828
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