The performance and safety of rechargeable batteries depend strongly on the materials
used. Lithium insertion materials suitable for negative and positive insertion electrodes are …

Nanostructured materials lie at the heart of fundamental advances in efficient energy storage
and/or conversion, in which surface processes and transport kinetics play determining roles …

The sol-gel process provides a new approach to the preparation of glasses and ceramics.
Starting from molecular precursors, an oxide network is obtained via inorganic …

Nanomaterials lie at the heart of the fundamental advances in efficient energy
storage/conversion and other types of nanodevices in which the surface process and …

Magnesium-based rechargeable batteries might be an interesting future alternative to
lithium-based batteries. Here the available results of research, both on rechargeable …

This article summarizes our most recent studies on improved Li+‐intercalation properties in
vanadium oxides by engineering the nanostructure and interlayer structure. The …

Due to their rather low molecular weight and their favorable electrochemical and solid-state
properties, first row transition metal oxides seem to be specially attractive as cathode …

The electrochemical intercalation of lithium into vanadium pentoxide was first reported in the
1970's. Over the last 40 years vanadium oxides have continued to be the subject of much …

Electrochemical and spectroscopic measurements were used to characterize the
electrochromic behavior of sputtered V2O5 films. In response to lithium intercalation, the …

The electrochemical characteristics of LiV3O8 have been investigated with respect to its use
as anode material in a new type of rechargeable battery system. LiV3O8 reversibly …