| abstract |
Various compositions comprising metal oxides, films and batteries comprising one or more of the compositions, and methods for making them. The present invention provides various composite materials including metal oxides, films, batteries including one or more composite materials, and methods for making them. In one aspect, the present invention provides a metal oxide coordinated to a first peptide, wherein the first peptide exhibits an affinity for the reduced form of the metal. In certain embodiments of the invention, the metal is a transition metal (eg, cobalt, vanadium, nickel, manganese, iron, cadmium, tungsten, chromium, zirconium, titanium, scandium, yttrium, copper, calcium, aluminum, barium, beryllium. , Magnesium and strontium). |