Metal Organic Framework Derived MnO₂-Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Arsenic Removal from Contaminated Water.

ABSTRACT: Even though manganese oxides are attractive materials for batteries, super-capacitors and electro-catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions, in most practical applications MnO₂ needs to be hybridized with conductive carbon nano-structures to overcome its inherent poor electrical conductivity. In this manuscript we report microwave-assisted synthesis of MnO₂ embedded carbon nanotubes (MnO₂@CNT) from Mn-H₃BTC (benzene-1,3,5-carboxylic acid) metal organic frameworks (MOF) precursors. Using graphene oxide as microwave susceptible surface, MnO₂ nano-particles embedded in three dimensional reduced graphene oxide (rGO) -CNT frameworks (MnO₂@CNT-rGO) were synthesized which when applied as electro-catalysts in oxygen reduction reactio

SUBMITTER: Sridhar V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558426 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature