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Redox‐Mediated Synthesis of a Fe 3 O 4 –MnO 2 Nanocomposite for Dye Adsorption and Pseudocapacitance
Author(s) -
Sahoo Ramkrishna,
Pradhan Mukul,
Roy Anindita,
Dutta Soumen,
Ray Chaiti,
Negishi Yuichi,
Pal Anjali,
Pal Tarasankar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.201500200
Subject(s) - pseudocapacitance , nanocomposite , adsorption , materials science , aqueous solution , cationic polymerization , redox , chemical engineering , capacitance , supercapacitor , nanotechnology , electrode , chemistry , polymer chemistry , metallurgy , engineering
Abstract A logically chosen redox reaction of submerged Fe 0 in an aqueous KMnO 4 solution has been reported. The template‐free reaction conditions produced gram amounts of a hierarchical flowerlike Fe 3 O 4 –MnO 2 nanocomposite. More precisely, freshly prepared Fe 0 nanoparticles were prepared from air‐free hot water under submerged conditions using a door magnet. The black Fe 0 particles were oxidized in water quantitatively by KMnO 4 in the solution phase and the nanocomposite was prepared. The material has been used as a dye adsorbent and the representative cationic dye uptake, recovery, and recycling of the dye becomes easy owing to the ferromagnetic properties and surface negative charge of the material. The nanocomposite also showed a higher specific capacitance (327 F g −1 at 10 mV s −1 ) than the reported values of pure MnO 2 and Fe 3 O 4 . The material exhibited a high energy density as well as a high power density, and remained stable even after a large number of charge–discharge cycles.