ChemInform Abstract: Water Oxidation by λ-MnO2: Catalysis by the Cubical Mn4O4 Subcluster Obtained by Delithiation of Spinel LiMn2O4.

✍ Scribed by David M. Robinson; Yong Bok Go; Martha Greenblatt; G. Charles Dismukes

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 18 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201045015

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Nanocrystalline LiMn~2~O~4~ is synthesized from aqueous solutions of Mn(OAc)~2~, LiNO~3~, citric acid, and urea (calcination at 350 °C for 12 h) and by solid state reaction of a stoichiometric mixture of Li~2~CO~3~ and Mn~2~O~3~ (850 °C, 24 h).