“…In the past two decades, numerous reports on various other materials have also demonstrated that fabricating nanostructured materials is an efficient way of overcoming the problems that arise from the slow Li + solid diffusion rate . However, the general synthesis routes for crystalline WO 2 materials, including solid reaction, vapor deposition, chemical vapor transport, and hydrogen reduction, only lead to a dense film structure or to irregular particles with large particle sizes. ,− Almost no nanostructured WO 2 materials have been reported, except for a WO 2 nanorod material prepared by a hot-filament metal vapor deposition method that requires a super high synthesis temperature of 1500 °C . Facile synthesis of WO 2 materials with well-defined nanostructures is still a great challenge.…”