“…Among these solid-state Qiao et al, 2011a,b;Rui et al, 2009Rui et al, , 2011bWang et al, 2009aWang et al, ,b,c, 2010aZhu et al, 2008a,b), microwave-assisted solid-state (Yang et al, 2010a,b), surfactant-assisted solid-state (Pan et al, 2011), spray-drying combined with solid-state (Jiang et al, 2012;Yu et al, 2010a,b), electrostatic spray deposition (Wang et al, 2010a,b,c), sol-gel (Böckenfeld and Balducci, 2013;Chen et al, 2007;Fu et al, 2007;Jiang et al, 2010;Li et al, 2007a,b,c,d;Mao et al, 2013;Ren et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2011aWang et al, , b,c,d,e,f,g, 2012aXiang et al, 2013;Zhu et al, 2008a,b), rheological phase reaction (Chang et al, 2008), ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (Ko et al, 2011), chemical reduction and lithiation (Zheng et al, 2009), and freeze-drying (Wang et al, 2012a,b,c,d,e) were proposed as possible methods. Among these solid-state Qiao et al, 2011a,b;Rui et al, 2009Rui et al, , 2011bWang et al, 2009aWang et al, ,b,c, 2010aZhu et al, 2008a,b), microwave-assisted solid-state (Yang et al, 2010a,b), surfactant-assisted solid-state (Pan et al, 2011), spray-drying combined with solid-state (Jiang et al, 2012;Yu et al, 2010a,b), electrostatic spray deposition (Wang et al, 2010a,b,c), sol-gel (Böckenfeld and Balducci, 2013;Chen et al, 2007;Fu et al, 2007;…”