“…As shown in Figure 3a and Figure S5, au niform layer of K 0.5 Mn 2 O 4 nanosheets were wrapped on each NC particle,d emonstrating the great potentialo fo ur synthesis methodf or large-scale preparation.T EM and highresolution TEM (HRTEM)w ere employed to furthere xplore the morphology and structure of NCMO. [44,45] Twop eaks in the K2ps pectruma t2 92.8 and 295.6 e, with a splitting of 2.8 eV,d emonstrated the existence of K + · [46] The O1sp eak can be deconvoluted into three types of contributions for oxygen species, corresponding to MnÀO( 529.96 eV), CÀO( 531.8 eV) and HÀOÀH( 534.1 eV) bonds, [44] as shown in Figure 4c.Aprominent peak appeared at 284.7 eV in the C1s spectrum,w hich suggested the presence of sp 2 -hybridized carbon (C=C), and another peak appeared at 285.8 eV,w hich was attributed to the CÀOb onds, [47] as shown in Figure 4d. An enlarged TEM image taken The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements were used to confirm the surface structureo ft he NCMO.F igure 4a and bs how the high-resolution XPS spectra of Mn 2p and K2p, respectively.T wo major peaks were observed at 642.5 and 653.7 eV,w hich were assigned to Mn 2p 3/2 and Mn 2p 1/2 ,r espectively,c onfirming the presence of Mn 4 + .…”