title: Transition metal oxide hierarchical nanotubes for energy applications.
abstract: We report a general synthetic method for transition metal oxide (TMO) hierarchical nanotube (HNT) structures by a solution-phase cation exchange method from Cu2O nanowire templates. This method leads to the formation of hollow, tubular backbones with secondary, thin nanostructures on the tube surface, which substantially increases the surface reactive sites for electrolyte contacts and electrochemical reactions. As proofs-of-concept, several representative first-row TMO HNTs have been synthesized, including CoOx, NiOx, MnOx, ZnOx and FeOx, with specific surface areas much larger than nanotubes or nanoparticles of corresponding materials. An example of the potential energy storage applications of CoOx HNTs as supercapacitors is also demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Yongcheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Abdullah M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Al-Enizi
authors.forename: Lijuan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Gengfeng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zheng