The octahedral molecular sieve (OMS-1) is a very powerful manganese oxide-based catalyst, and researchers from Tokyo Tech have found a remarkably simple way to synthesize it. By using a low ...

Leone Spiccia´s lab developed and provided the samples. He says: "Under a bias, our manganese complexes produce nanoparticles of manganese oxides within nafion matrix.

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Jan. 21, 2016, to correct the accidental labeling of manganese oxide as MgO. Solid catalysts have a reputation for being tricky to make and control.

(Nanowerk News) Plants use photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. The process starts in a cluster of manganese, calcium and oxygen atoms at the heart of a protein ...

Manganese oxides have received much attention from materials scientists due to their widespread applications including electrodes, catalysts, sensors, supercapacitors, and biomedicine. Further ...

The new catalyst is a form of manganese oxide (MnO2). The key finding was that reaction stability could be increased over 40 times by altering the catalyst’s lattice structure.

An easy-to-prepare catalyst consisting of isolated metal atoms embedded at various points across functionalized graphene sheets can carry out a key step in water splitting, according to a study ...

Metal sulfides with seven to eight d electrons show optimal performance as catalysts for water electrolysis, as reported by ...

Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzer using manganese oxide. Image Credit: RIKEN This work was led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan.

Materials scientist Andrej Singer and chemist Héctor Abruña led a research team that investigated a cost-effective alternative: a cobalt-manganese oxide catalyst. The researchers employed advanced ...

This is why in the search for a better catalyst, he and his team looked at mixed cobalt and manganese oxides. Cobalt oxides can be active for the required reaction but corrode very quickly in the ...

A team of chemists at RIKEN has created a manganese and cobalt oxide electrocatalyst that represents an important step forward in the affordable production of cleaner hydrogen fuels. Hydrogen can be ...