Discipline: Chemistry and Chemical Sciences
Subcategory: Materials Science
Elizabeth Hitch - California State University, Fullerton
Co-Author(s): Dr. Allyson Fry-Petit, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton CA
Oxygen transport membranes (OTM) are a promising technology that improves current oxygen separation methods by lowering costs and increasing efficiency. OTMs are composed of metal oxides which transport both oxygen ions and electrons across a membrane. Perovskite materials have been proposed as OTMs. This project focuses on synthesizing three perovskites with varying composition using three different synthesis techniques. The compounds were synthesized using a solid-state ceramic method and two different sol-gel methods that involve the use of citrate/EDTA and citrate/ethylene glycol to understand the effect of synthesis technique on the underlying structure. The structure of all compounds was investigated using powder X- ray diffractometry. It has been shown that all three compounds can be successfully synthesized via all three synthesis routes and the details of the crystal structure analysis is ongoing.
Funder Acknowledgement(s): LSAMP, California State University, Fullerton, Project RAISE, U.S. Department of Education HSI-STEM award number P031C160152.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allyson Fry-Petit, afry@exchange.fullerton.edu
Role: I was involved in synthesizing all three compounds using all three techniques listed in the abstract. I also analyzed these compounds using X-ray diffraction and compared the data using the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD).