BaMnO3 nanostructures: Simple ultrasonic fabrication and novel catalytic agent toward oxygen evolution of water splitting reaction

In the current paper, the main aim is to fabricate the BaMnO₃ nanostructures via the sonochemical route. The various factor, including precursors, reaction time and power of sonication can affect the shape, size, and purity of the samples. We utilized X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to characterize the BaMnO₃ nanostructures. The optical property of BaMnO₃ nanostructures was explored by Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–vis) and the energy gap was suitable for catalytic activity (about 2.75 eV). Changing the precursor can affect the size, nanoparticle shape, architectures, and uniformity of the samples. We employed the BaMnO₃ nanostructures for O₂ evolution reaction as catalysts. It can observe that increasing the homogeneity of the catalysts can increase the efficiency of the Oxygen evolution reaction. The maximum amount of the O₂ evolution and the highest TOF and TON are related to nanoplate disc using barium salicylate as a precursor of barium. As a result, we can nominate the BaMnO₃ nanostructures as an effective and novel catalyst for water-splitting reaction.