“…It is worth noting that in addition to the above advantages, transition metal silicides also show intentional electrochemical properties, such as high theoretical energy capacity and low discharge potential. Up to now, Transition metal silicides are prepared by various methods such as arc melting, self-propagating high temperature synthesis, mechanical alloying (MA) ( Okadome et al, 1995 ; Al-Joubori and Suryanarayana, 2016 ; Shin et al, 2017 ), Solid-state metathesis ( Jacubinas and Kaner, 1993 ; Nartowski and Parkin, 2002 ), Molten salt reaction technology ( Ma et al, 2004 ; Yang et al, 2004 ; Liu et al, 2013 ; Estruga et al, 2014 ), Microwave assisted synthesis ( Vaidhyanathan and Rao, 1997 ; Zhang et al, 2014 ; Zhang et al, 2018 ), Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) ( Seo et al, 2007 ; In et al, 2008 ; Higgins et al, 2010 ; Liu et al, 2012 ) and Solution synthesis route ( Baudouin et al, 2012 ; Geaney et al, 2012 ; Galeandro-Diamant et al, 2019 ) ( Figure 6 ). Each method described above has its own advantages and disadvantages.…”