Mechanochemical synthesis and thermal stability of Ca-doped high-entropy La(Co,Cu,Fe,Mn,Ni)O3-δ perovskites

Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 358 (2026) 125921

Mechanochemical synthesis and thermal stability of Ca-doped high-entropy La(Co,Cu,Fe,Mn,Ni)O3-δ perovskites

In this study, the feasibility of preparing novel Ca-doped high entropy La(Co,Cu,Fe,Mn,Ni)O3-delta perovskites by mechanochemical synthesis was explored. It was found that monophasic compounds can be obtained after 150 h of milling, characterized by the nano size of their crystals and a significant concentration of oxygen vacancies, likely due to the incorporation of bivalent cations into the perovskite lattice. Results show that the destabilization of the perovskite structure occurs in the case of undoped compounds after thermal treatment at 1173 K, with the appearance of Ni-rich precipitates. This is inferred from in-situ XRD experiments and confirmed by TEM observations. It was found that the doped samples can be successfully described with the R3c space group. Although certain magnetic order can be detected in the prepared samples, the structural distortions introduced by ball milling, along with the compositional complexity, avoid the appearance of a clear ferromagnetic behavior in the samples, typical of simpler lanthanum manganites compounds.

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