Non-equilibrium crystallization pathways of manganese oxides in aqueous solution

Multistage crystallization of transition metal oxides often proceeds through a number of metastable intermediates. Here, the authors shed light on this phenomenon by extending Pourbaix diagrams to capture the metastable and nanoscale thermodynamics of manganese oxide nucleation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wenhao Sun, Daniil A. Kitchaev, Denis Kramer, Gerbrand Ceder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08494-6