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Facile synthesis of tremella-like MnO2 and its application as supercapacitor electrodes

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In this work, three kinds of ultrathin tremella-like MnO2 have been simply synthesized by decomposing KMnO4 under mild hydrothermal conditions. When applied as electrode materials, they all exhibited excellent electrochemical performance. The asprepared MnO2 samples were characterized by means of XRD, SEM, TEM and XPS. Additionally, the relationship of the crystalline nature with the electrochemical performance was investigated. Among the three samples, the product with the poorest crystallinity had the highest capacitance of 220 F/g at a current density of 0.1 A/g. It is thought that the ultrathin MnO2 nanostructures can serve as promising electrode materials for supercapacitors.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, 333001, China

    Xiangcang Ren & Chuanjin Tian

  2. State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xiangcang Ren, Sa Li, Yucheng Zhao & Chang-An Wang

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Ren, X., Tian, C., Li, S. et al. Facile synthesis of tremella-like MnO2 and its application as supercapacitor electrodes. Front. Mater. Sci. 9, 234–240 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-015-0306-8

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