“…According to these findings, the principal goal, leading to great enhancement of catalytic properties, is the improvement of the textural properties of LaMnO 3 perovskites, increasing the exposed specific surface, enhancing the surface and bulk oxygen mobility, and increasing the average oxidation state of Mn (a higher proportion of Mn 4+ with respect to Mn 3+ ). Many efforts have been made to this end, resulting in the development of more efficient synthesis routes, such as co-precipitation [21,22], complexation [17,23], freeze/spray drying [22,[24][25][26], and sol-gel [27], as well as explosion processes [28,29] and high-energy ball milling [30,31]. Recently, sol-gel synthesis has emerged as an attractive technique for the production of high-purity and crystalline oxide powders at a significantly lower temperature than the conventional synthesis method [32,33].…”