TY - GEN A1 - Indra, Arindam A1 - Menezes, Prashanth W. A1 - Das, Chittaranjan A1 - Schmeißer, Dieter A1 - Driess, Matthias T1 - Alkaline electrochemical water oxidation with multi-shelled cobalt manganese oxide hollow spheres T2 - Chemical Communications N2 - Multi-shelled hollow spheres of cobalt manganese oxides (CMOs) deposited on Ni foam exhibited superior alkaline electrochemical water oxidation activity and surpassed those of bulk CMO and commercial noble metal-based catalysts. A higher amount of cobalt in the spinel structure resulted in the transformation of the tetragonal to the cubic phase with a decrease in the overpotential of oxygen evolution. KW - Water oxidation KW - Cobalt manganese oxides (CMOs) KW - Multi-shelled hollow spheres KW - Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) KW - Cyclic voltammetry KW - Scanning electron microscopy Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC03566G SN - 1359-7345 SN - 1364-548X VL - 53 IS - 62 SP - 8641 EP - 8644 ER -