ABSTRACT
This brief review contains some literature references involving the preparation, characterization, and battery applications of silver vanadium oxide, hereafter referred to as SVO. For this review, the term
SVO
is used to describe a family of materials containing silver, vanadium, and oxygen in stoichiometric or nonstoichiometric ratios. The published history of SVO is long, initially involving the synthesis and characterization of the various phases of SVO. However, with the discovery of SVO as an important electrode material in batteries, the number of SVO publications and patents has increased markedly within the past 20 years. Although not comprehensive, this review is designed to provide the reader with an overall appreciation of the initial research efforts involving SVO, leading up to the more recent battery chemistry of SVO.
