American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials, 24(18), p. 5756-5763, 2006
DOI: 10.1021/cm0609193
Wiley-VCH Verlag, ChemInform, 8(38), 2007
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Electron diffraction and high-resolution electron microscopy of LaMnO3-δ (0 ≤ δ ≤ 0.25), obtained by topotactic reduction of LaMnO3, shows that an ordered pathway of anionic vacancies is only obtained for δ = 0.25. La4Mn4O11 is an eightfold superlattice of the perovskite-type structure due to the ordered intergrowth of three octahedral layers and one tetrahedral layer along the b axis, according to the sequence ...OOOTOOOT‘... The reduced sample exhibits ferromagnetic behavior with Tc ≈ 50 K. The staircase effect, observed at low temperature, is discussed in terms of the magnetic ordering adopted in the octahedral layers.