title: Synthesis of single-crystal manganese dioxide nanowires by a soft chemical process.
abstract: α- and β-MnO(2) single-crystal nanowires have been successfully synthesized through a soft chemical process, which involves no catalysts or templates. The diameters of the nanowires are about 10-40 nm and the lengths up to several tens of micrometres. Experimental results showed that MnO(2) polymorphic forms can be synthesized by selected-control reaction temperatures and their crystal phases in the nanowires were confirmed by XRD and TEM measurement. Further, the formation process of nanowires is discussed.
authors: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST Tsukuba Central #5, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
authors: Mingdeng
authors: M
authors: Wei
authors: Yoshinari
authors: Y
authors: Konishi
authors: Haoshen
authors: H
authors: Zhou
authors: Hideki
authors: H
authors: Sugihara
authors: Hironori
authors: H
authors: Arakawa