“…This was further motivated by the high cost, chemical hazards, and the environmental impact associated with cobalt. The preparation of LiCoO 2 was done by means of solid state reaction [8][9][10], sol-gel technique [11,12], ultrasonic spray pyrolysis process [13], combustion synthesis [14,15], co-precipitation method [16], molten salt synthesis [17], freeze-drying method [18], complex formation method [19], hydrothermal synthesis [20], mechanochemical, and microwave synthesis [21,22] [14,18,24], only 50-55% of its theoretical capacity. In order to enhance the ionic conductivity and cycling performance of the cathode, some approaches such as carbon coating [11,25] …”