Hydrothermal Synthesis of TiO Aggregates and Their Application as Negative Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Conflicting Effects of Specific Surface and Pore Size.

TiO aggregates of controlled size have been successfully prepared by hydrothermal synthesis using TiO nanoparticles of different sizes as a building unit. In this work, different techniques were used to characterize the as-prepared TiO aggregates, e.g.