The oxidative coupling of methane reaction to produce C2 compounds was studied using La2(Ce1−xMgx)2O7−δ catalysts with disordered defective cubic fluorite structures, varying the Mg content (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0), CH4/O2 ratio, temperature, and WHSV.
Perovskite strontium titanate is a promising functional material for gas sensors and catalysis applications. Herein, we report the preparation of SrTi1-xCuxO3 nanoparticles with Cu doped in the B sites using a modified polymeric precursor method. This study describes in detail the structural and local atomic configurations for the substitution of Cu into the titanium sites and its reducibility using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission gun scanning and transmission electron microscopies (FEG-SEM and TEM), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) analyses. Our results indicate that copper is segregated for x≥ 0.06. After exposing the samples to a hydrogen-rich atmosphere at temperatures over 500 K, copper is reduced from Cu(2+) to metallic Cu. This reduction was attributed to copper atoms that originated primarily from the CuO phase.
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