“…Thus, V 2 O 3 has received increasing interest in recent years and has lots of promising properties for various applications, such as intelligent windows [25], field effect transistors [25], aqueous lithium ion batteries [27,28], supercapacitors [29], temperature sensors [30], conductive composite polymer [31], catalyst [32] and so on. Therefore, in past decades, many routes have been performed to synthesize V 2 O 3 , including O 2 eH 2 flame fusion [33], evaporative decomposition and H 2 reduction [34], pyrolysis [35], nonaqueous route [36], supercritical fluid [37] and hydrothermal method [38]. However, only bulk V 2 O 3 powders or spherical V 2 O 3 nanopowders are obtained by these methods.…”