\textbf{Simulated synthesis of lithium manganese oxide nanostructures and their characterisation.}

Simulated amorphisation recrystallization methods, are now routinely used to generate models of various nano-architectures for metal oxides with complex microstructural details [1]. Nano-architectures, i.e. nano- sphere, sheet, porous and bulk, associated with the Li-Mn-O ternary were synthesised from amorphous spinel nanosphere. The resulting crystallised nanostructures are characterised from visual images, radial distribution functions, XRDs and simulated microstructures. An analysis of microstructures and simulated X-ray diffractions reveals the presence of the layered Li$_{\mathrm{2}}$MnO$_{\mathrm{3}}$ and spinel LiMn$_{\mathrm{2}}$O$_{\mathrm{4}}$ together with a wide variety of defects, including grain boundaries and ion vacancies. [1] T.X.T. Sayle, R.R. Maphanga, P. E. Ngoepe and D. C. Sayle, J. Am. Chem. Soc., \textbf{131 }(2009), 6161-6173