This paper reports the synthesis and characterization of a lanthanum-barium-copper oxide, based on a LaBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 system, using a wet chemical route that enables the combustion-polymerization of citrate species, in order to generate materials with enhanced surface and textural and morphological properties for potential applications. The synthesized precursor in a form of a coordination complex was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis in order to evaluate the formation of homogeneous and soluble citrate species as intermediates of reaction. The morphological and structural characterizations were performed over calcined material with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron microscopy (scanning electron microscopy (SEM)-transmission electron microscopy (TEM)) analyses, confirming the obtention of an orthorhombic crystalline phase type Pmmm (47) in the nanometric range ≈8.9 nm. Analyses of the ceramic oxide by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron Pátria, 156, Niterói, 24210-240, Brazil spectroscopy (XPS) allowed to perform qualitative and quantitative assessments of the material composition, showing that the final oxide is closely related to the desired composition, discarding the presence of carbonaceous residues of the synthesis process.