“…Methods that yield nanostructured active materials, such as using an ITIES, are useful in battery research as small active particles give porous electrodes with high capacity and excellent rate performance. − In particular, using active particles in the form of 2D platelets has an advantage over spherical particles because they possess three times less surface area per volume for a given solid-state diffusion length. , This gives short diffusion lengths, and so reduced solid-state diffusion times and enhanced rate performance, without extremely large active surface areas. In this manner, unwanted parasitic reactions are reduced between the active electrode materials and the nonaqueous electrolyte at different potentials …”