Perovskite-related oxide materials for oxygen-permeable electrochemical membrans

Abstract

This brief review is focused on the studies of mixed ionic-electronic conductors on the basis of lanthanum gallate doped with transition metal cations in the В sublattice. The substitution of gallium with iron, cobalt or nickel results in greater electronic conductivity, simultaneously keeping high level of the oxy-gen ionic transport. In particular, La0 90Sr0 10Ga0 65Ni0 20Mg0 1503d perovskite exhib-its attractive oxygen permeability, which is quite similar to that of La2Ni04- and (La,Sr)Co03-based phases The combination of appropriate transport and thermomechanical properties with sufficiently high thermodynamic stability en-ables to use Ni- or Fe-substituted LaGa03-based mixed conductors for the mem-brane electrocatalytic reactors for partial oxidation of light hydrocarbons.