Novel colloidal pseudocapacitors are designed using commercially available MnCl2 salts as starting materials and KOH as electrolyte, where the colloids synthesis and subsequently integrating into practical electrode structures occur at the same spatial and temporal scale. Highly electroactive Mn7O13.5H(2)0 colloids are formed in-situ by electric field assisted chemical coprecipitation in KOH solution. The highly efficient Faradaic redox reactions involving Mn3+ <-> Mn4+ and Mn2+ <-> Mn3+ are confirmed in electroactive Mn7O13.5H(2)O pseudocapacitors, which can deliver high specific capacitance of 2518 F/g based on active Mn cations at current density of 5 A/g. The present results show that instead of one-electron Faradaic reaction, Mn cations in our designed system can lead to two-electron Faradaic reactions. The colloidal pseudocapacitor system involving Mn-based colloids is a novel route to engineer electrochemical performances of inorganic pseudocapacitors. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.