Issue 27, 2014

Storylines in intercalation chemistry

Abstract

Intercalation chemistry will soon be a hundred years old. The period of greatest activity in this field of solid state chemistry and physics was from about 1970 to 1990. The intercalation reactions are defined as topotactic solid state reactions and the products – the intercalation compounds – are clearly distinguished from inclusion and interstitial compounds. After a short historical introduction emphasizing the pioneering work of Ulrich Hofmann, the central topics and concepts will be reviewed and commented on. The most important ones, in my view, are: dichalcogenide intercalation compounds, the electrochemical intercalation and the search for new battery electrodes, the physics of graphite intercalation compounds, and the staging and interstratification phenomena. The relation to other fields of actual research and the demands for forthcoming research will also be addressed.

Graphical abstract: Storylines in intercalation chemistry

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
20 1 2014
Accepted
02 6 2014
First published
10 6 2014

Dalton Trans., 2014,43, 10276-10291

Author version available

Storylines in intercalation chemistry

A. Lerf, Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 10276 DOI: 10.1039/C4DT00203B

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