title: General Self-Template Synthesis of Transition-Metal Oxide and Chalcogenide Mesoporous Nanotubes with Enhanced Electrochemical Performances.
abstract: The development of a general strategy for synthesizing hierarchical porous transition-metal oxide and chalcogenide mesoporous nanotubes, is still highly challenging. Herein we present a facile self-template strategy to synthesize Co3 O4 mesoporous nanotubes with outstanding performances in both the electrocatalytic oxygen-evolution reaction (OER) and Li-ion battery via the thermal-oxidation-induced transformation of cheap and easily-prepared Co-Asp(cobalt-aspartic acid) nanowires. The initially formed thin layers on the precursor surfaces, oxygen-induced outward diffusion of interior precursors, the gas release of organic oxidation, and subsequent Kirkendall effect are important for the appearance of the mesoporous nanotubes. This self-template strategy of low-cost precursors is found to be a versatile method to prepare other functional mesoporous nanotubes of transition-metal oxides and chalcogenides, such as NiO, NiCo2 O4 , Mn5 O8 , CoS2 and CoSe2 .
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
authors.forename: Huan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
authors.forename: Sifei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhuo
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, China.
authors.forename: Xiling
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China. bzhang@tju.edu.cn.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, China. bzhang@tju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: lithium-ion batteries; mesoporous nanotubes; oxygen evolution reaction; templates; transition metals