V2O5 Electrodeposition and Thermal Annealing

The electrolyte used for the electrodeposition [37, 58] was a 1M aqueous vanadium sulfate oxide hydrate solution containing 50 %wt ethanol with a pH of 1.6. A standard 

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The gradually increase in film thickness was controlled by monitoring the deposition time rather than the charge passing through the cell because of the reason mentioned in Sect. 5.1.1.2. Subsequently, the vanadium oxide films were rinsed with deionized water, dried, and in case of templated deposition were freed of the styrenic scaffold by dissolution in toluene. 

The samples were then heated to temperatures between 200 and 400 at a ramp 

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