“…As a matter of fact, this synthesis pathway is known to give rise to well-performing active materials after direct calcination of KMnO 4 [16,17] or by chemical reduction in liquid medium [7][8][9][10][11][18][19][20][21][22]. For the latter wet synthesis, a large variety of reducting agents, such as for instance oxalic acid, fumaric acid, potassium borohydride, hydrogen peroxide, lithium iodide, lithium chloride, lithium oxalate, have been investigated.…”