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Through in situ redox deposition and growth of MnO2 nanostructures on hierarchically porous carbon (HPC), a MnO2/HPC hybrid has been synthesized and employed as cathode catalyst for non-aqueous Li-O2 batteries. Owing to the mild synthetic conditions, MnO2 was uniformly distributed on the surface of the carbon support, without destroying the hierarchical porous nanostructure. As a result, the as-prepared MnO2/HPC nanocomposite exhibits excellent Li-O2 battery performance, including low charge overpotential, good rate capacity and long cycle stability up to 300 cycles with controlling capacity of 1, 000 mAh·g-1. A combination of the multi-scale porous network of the shell-connected carbon support and the highly dispersed MnO2 nanostructure benefits the transportation of ions, oxygen and electrons and contributes to the excellent electrode performance.

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Received: 31 August 2014
Revised: 02 October 2014
Accepted: 06 October 2014
Published: 05 November 2014
Issue date: January 2015

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2011CB935900), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21322101 and 21231005), and MOE (Nos. ACET-13-0296 and B12015).

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