Soft Chemical Synthesis of Novel Oxide Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries

1 Results Low-temperature synthetic techniques called "chimie douce" have resulted in major developments in the field of solid state chemistry of transition metal oxides. The systematic study of oxide bronzes in the period 1950-1980 paved the way to further advances in the solid state chemistry of oxides, including the alkali metal intercalation(deintercalation chemistry by soft chemical and/or electrochemical methods. These techniques also gave access to new metastable compounds such as several new f...