Mild hydrothermal synthesis of γ-MnO2 nanostructures and their phase transformation to α-MnO2 nanowires

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2268-2275

  Khan, Yaqoob ^a   Durrani, Shahid Khan ^b   Mehmood, Mazhar ^a   Khan, Muhammad Riaz ^c  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Chemical synthesis; Hydrothermal; Nanostructure

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; DIRECT REACTIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HYDROTHERMAL; HYDROTHERMAL ROUTES; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

MANGANESE OXIDE;

EID: 84874947284     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.138     Document Type: Article

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