title: An efficient and inexpensive water-oxidizing manganese-based oxide electrode.
abstract: Using inexpensive and environmentally friendly Mn oxide, a very simple method to synthesize an efficient and stable water-oxidizing electrode on the surface of a fluorine doped tin oxide electrode was reported. The electrode at pH = 13 yields a current density of 1 mA cm-2at an overpotential of 450 mV, which is promising to be used as an anode in water-splitting systems. In higher overpotential (800 mV), a current density of 7 mA cm-2was observed. Proposed different states of the growth of layered Mn oxide on the surface of FTO based on SEM images were also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran. mmnajafpour@iasbs.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mohammad Mahdi
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Najafpour
authors.forename: Seyedeh Maedeh
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hosseini