“…For the electrolyte materials La 2 Mo 2 O 9 and La 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 , under the conditions of annealing at 600 °C and transition from ultrahigh vacuum to 2 × 10 −3 atm O 2 , the amount of Mo increases, and when thermo-chemical equilibrium is reached, the La/Mo ratio increases from 2/1.83 and 2/3.36, and levels off for both samples at 2/3.36 and 2/3.37. 174 In the H 2 -containing atmosphere conditions at the Ba 0.3 -Sr 0.7 Fe 0.9 Mo 0.1 O 3−d surface aer 24 hours annealing, 172 the intensity of the Mo 5+ peak does not change, while the Fe 2+ peak increases, which is due to the reduction of Fe 3+ and Fe 4+ . H 2annealing favours the reduction of transition metals, which increases the lattice parameter and consequently facilitates the back segregation of cations, also heat treatment in hydrogen leads to self-healing of defects, Fig.…”