Issue 44, 2015

Conductive polymer-mediated 2D and 3D arrays of Mn3O4 nanoblocks and mesoporous conductive polymers as their replicas

Abstract

Orientation-controlled 2D and 3D microarrays of Mn3O4 nanocuboids that were mediated by a conductive polymer were fabricated by evaporation-induced self-assembly of the oxide nanoblocks and subsequent polymerization of pyrrole in the interparticle spaces. Free-standing mesoporous polypyrroles (PPy) having chain- and square-grid-like nanovoid arrays were obtained as replicas of the composite assemblies by dissolving the oxide nanoblocks. The PPy-mediated manganese oxide arrays exhibited stable electrochemical performance as an ultrathin anode of a lithium-ion secondary battery.

Graphical abstract: Conductive polymer-mediated 2D and 3D arrays of Mn3O4 nanoblocks and mesoporous conductive polymers as their replicas

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Aug 2015
Accepted
15 Oct 2015
First published
19 Oct 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2015,7, 18471-18476

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Conductive polymer-mediated 2D and 3D arrays of Mn3O4 nanoblocks and mesoporous conductive polymers as their replicas

Y. Nakagawa, H. Kageyama, R. Matsumoto, Y. Oaki and H. Imai, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 18471 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR05912G

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