Angewandte Chemie. International edition in English 2012-07-16

Unusual formation of single-crystal manganese sulfide microboxes co-mediated by the cubic crystal structure and shape.

Lei Zhang, Liang Zhou, Hao Bin Wu, Rong Xu, Xiong Wen David Lou

Index: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 51(29) , 7267-70, (2012)

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Abstract

Kept cubic: MnS microboxes, which act as an anode material for lithium ion batteries, are synthesized by a simple H(2)S gas sulfidation approach (TEM images show porous and hollow microcubes and a microbox). The formation of the single crystals is aided by the intrinsic cubic crystal structure and the nearly cubic shape of the MnCO(3) precursor.Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.