Stability transition metal oxide insertion

The Structural Stability of Transition Metal Oxide Insertion Electrodes for Lithium Batteries... 

This review focuses on the structural stability of transition metal oxides to lithium insertion/extraction rather than on their electrochemical performance. The reader should refer to cited publications to access relevant electrochemical data. Because of the vast number of papers on lithium metal oxides that have been published since the 1970s, only a selected list of references has been provided. 

Transition metal oxides that do not change their transparency, or color very little, under ion/electron insertion and extraction can also be used as a counter electrode in electrochromic devices anploying tungsten oxide as a cathodic material. There has been particular interest in oxides based on vanadium pentoxide and cerium oxide. Pure V2O5 as well as a mixture of vanadium and titanium oxide are of interest. Cerium-based mixed oxides, in particular cerium-zirconium oxide (Veszelei et al. [1999]), exhibit less optical absorption, but the stability is not sufficient for many applications. 

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