Vanadium oxide, specific conductivity

Vanadium oxides, same as oxides of yet another metal with variable valence and also with intercalation ability in respect to lithium cations, have lately been widely studied for their application as an active material for positive electrodes in ECSCs (Chen and Wen, 2003). V2O5 is applied on highly dispersed carbon materials as supports, as specific electron conductivity of V2O5 is rather low. 

As a specific example of the correlations we have observed, our experimental results demonstrate that the reactions of vanadium and niobium oxide cluster cations with methanol lead to dehydrogenation of methanol under single collision conditions producing neutral formaldehyde [16]. Formaldehyde is, indeed, a major product formed from methanol over condensed-phase vanadia surfaces [17]. Another study conducted in our laboratory showed that,, Clj products were formed during the reaction between certain clusters and CCl, leaving phosgene (COClj) as the most likely neutral product [15, 18]. The decomposition of... 

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