Abstract:Carbon spheres with different sizes has been synthesized through a hydrothermal method using glucose and water. Then single-factor contrast experiments about the size of carbon spheres, the concentration of KMnO4 and the temperature of the reaction were carried out to probe into the effect of these factors on the morphology of the MnO2 products. Kirkendall Effect is an effective theory to interprete the result, and though a series of replication experiments, we came to the final conclusion: The flower-like MnO2 can be fabricated through the reaction of low-concentration KMnO4 and small-size carbon spheres; The hollow-sphere-structure MnO2 can be obtained by the reaction of low-concentration KMnO4 and big-size carbon spheres; The porous solid-structure MnO2 corresponds to high-concentration KMnO4, whatever size the carbon spheres are; Tempetature is not a notable fator.