Lorad is able to offer custom synthesized fuel cell nano-powders in initial research and development quantities. Scale-up to commercial quantities can be facilitated upon request.

Powders are, typically, 100nm. Almost any customer defined composition can be achieved.

Vanadium oxides have been demonstrated to have many interesting and useful applications as battery cathode materials, (V₆0₁₃, Ag₂V₄O₁₁, LiV₃O₈ etc…all available from Lorad), in catalysis, sensors for gas detection, and in thin-film form in electro-optical devices. Recently, vanadium dioxide has attracted attention because two of its polymorphs exhibit a reversible conductor – insulator (semiconductor) transition at relatively low temperatures. In its pure form, the semiconducting (low electronic conductivity) monoclinic form switches to a metallic conducting tetragonal form at 66^oC to 67^oC. The reverse process occurs at about 61^oC – 62^oC.