Soft-solution processing

Yoshimura M, Suchanek W (1997) In situ fabrication of morphology-controlled advanced ceramic materials by Soft Solution Processing. Solid State Ionics 98 197-208 Yu S-H, Yoshimura M (2002) Feriite/metal composites fabricated by soft solution processing. Adv Funct Mater 12 9-15... 

On the other hand, the progress of wet-processes as preparative techniques of metal oxide films has been remarkable. The so-called soft solution process that provides oxide layers by means of electrochemical oxidation of a metal surface is expanding as a synthetic method of various mixed metal oxides with controlled thickness [2], The two-dimensional (2D) sol-gel process based on the hydrolysis of metal alkoxides at the air/water interface has been reported as a preparative technique of ultrathin oxide films (Fig. 6.1a) [3]. It is also known that LB films of metal complexes of long-chain alkyl carboxylic acid can be converted to metal oxide films after removal of organic component by oxygen plasma [4] and UV-ozone treatments (Fig. 6.1b) [5]. Preparation of metal oxide... 

E. Suda, B. Pacaud, and T. Seguelong, International Symposium on soft solution processing, 2000-12. 

M. Yoshimura, Importance of soft solution processing for advaneed inorganic materials. J. Mater. Res., 13(4), 796-802, 1998. 

M. Yoshimura, W. L. Suchanek, and K. Byrappa, Soft solution processing—A strategy for one-step processing of advanced inorganic materials. MRS Bulletin Special Issue, 25(9), 17-25, 2000. 

Soft Solution Processing OF Nanoscaled Lithium Vanadium Oxides AS Cathode Materials FOR Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries... 

Soft Solution Processing of Nanoscaled Lithium Vanadium Oxides. .. 183... 

Y. Sun, B. Gates, B. Mayers, and Y. Xia, Crystalline silver nanowires by soft solution processing. Nano Lett. 2, 165-168 (2002). 

Sun, Y., et al., Crystalline Silver Nanowires by Soft Solution Processing. Nano Letters, 2002. 2(2) p. 165-168. 

In order to obtain LiCoOj powder in nano-size range, there have been a number of attempts to synthesize LiCoOj by soft solution processes, such as the sol-gel process [6,7], spray drying method [8], coprecipitation method [9], and posttemplating method [10]. Among, the hydrothermal process [11-13] was found to be a suitable method for the preparation of nano-sized LiCo02. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to fabricate a nanostructured LiCo02 thin film via hydrothermal method for the application of microbattery. 

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