title: Macroporous manganese oxides with regenerative mesopores.
abstract: We demonstrate a simple route to making hierarchically porous MnO. Macropores in Mn3O4 are induced through a process of powder sintering. The loss of volume associated with the reduction of Mn3O4 to MnO results in the formation of mesopores in the walls of a macroporous monolith of MnO. The mesopores are regenerative, in that oxidation closes them up and reduction opens them again.
authors.affiliation: Materials Department and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5121, USA.
authors.forename: Eric S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Toberer
authors.forename: Thomas D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Schladt
authors.forename: Ram
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seshadri