“…Typically, liquid-phase synthesis, including chemical precipitation, [60] hydrothermal, [61] solvothermal, [62,63] sol-gel, [64] and thermal decomposition methods [65] based on different fluorine sources, (hydrogen fluoride (HF) solution, [66] NH 4 F, [67] NH 4 HF 2 , [68,69] metal hexafluorosilicate, [70] F-containing ionic liquids (ILs), [71] etc.) has been utilized to prepare nanoparticle MFs, [72] metal oxyfluorides, [73] mixed metal difluorides, [74] and MF-carbon composites.…”