Frontispiece: Low‐Temperature Miniemulsion‐Based Routes for Synthesis of Metal Oxides

Solution synthesis of metal oxides for electrochemical energy storage applications.

This article provides an overview of solution-based methods for the controllable synthesis of metal oxides and their applications for electrochemical energy storage. Typical solution synthesis strategies are summarized and the detailed chemical reactions are elaborated for several common nanostructured transition metal oxides and their composites. The merits and demerits of these synthesis meth...

Large-scale synthesis of hybrid metal oxides through metal redox mechanism for high-performance pseudocapacitors

Electrochemical performance and production cost are the main concerns for the practical application of supercapacitors. Here we report a simple and universally applicable method to prepare hybrid metal oxides by metal redox reaction utilizing the inherent reducibility of metals and oxidbility of for the first time. As an example, Ni(OH)2/MnO2 hybrid nanosheets (NMNSs) are grown for supercapacit...

Chiral ionic liquid assisted synthesis of some metal oxides

A chiral ionic liquid with a natural alcohol based chain was used as a tailoring agent for the synthesis of simple and cost effective materials such as ZnO, CuO, CuO–ZnO with peculiar morphology. The morphology and chemical composition of the microstructures were investigated by bright-field and scanning transmission microscopy (BF-TEM and STEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), Four...

Localized Laser-Based Photohydrothermal Synthesis of Functionalized Metal-Oxides

The Synthesis of Nano-Crystalline Metal Oxides by Solution Method