ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGIES NANORAMSDELLITE-MnO₂

In this work manganese dioxide (Ramsdellite- MnO 2 ) was synthesized at room temperature using a facile electrochemical method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to identify the type and the size of the crystal particle, while field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and energy filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) were used to show and identify the morphology of the particles and changes of their morphologies with the increase of reaction times. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy confirmed the Mn–O bond. Results from XRD showed that optimum time for synthesis Ramsdellite- MnO 2 was 9 h. The results of EFTEM showed a mixture of nanospheres and nanorods after 9 h reaction time while a homogenous morphology of nanospheres was detected at 12 h reaction time. Results confirmed on the existence of a correlation between the reaction time and the resulting nanostructures. Moreover, the EFTEM result showed that average particle size for 12 h was (25 ± 7 nm). The variation of calculated specific capacitance (F/g) versus the different scan rate has indicated that the efficiency of synthesized Ramsdellite- MnO 2 nanostructures in 12 h reaction time was superior to 9 h.