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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2010, Article ID 104012, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2010/104012 Research Article Characterization of LiCoO2 Nanopowders Produced by Sol-Gel Processing Sina Soltanmohammad and Sirous Asgari Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9466, Azadi Avenue, Tehran, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Sirous Asgari, sasgari@ Received 7 April 2010; Revised 21 July 2010; Accepted 11 September 2010 Academic Editor: Michael Wong Copyright © 2010 S. Soltanmohammad and S. Asgari. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. LiCoO2 nanopowders, one of the most important cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, were synthesized via a modified sol- gel process assisted with triethanolamine (TEA) as a complexing agent. The influence of three different chelating agents including acrylic acid, citric acid, and oxalic acid on the size and morphology of particles was investigated. Structure and morphology of the synthesized powders were characterized by thermogravimetric/differential thermal analyses (TG/DTA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Results indicate that the powder processed with TEA and calcinated at 800◦C had an excellent hexagonal ordering of α-NaFeO2 -type (space group R3m). Also, the other three complexing agents had a decisive influence on the particle size, shape, morphology, and degree of agglomeration of the resulting oxides. Based on the data presented in this work, it is proposed that the optimized size and distribution of LiCoO2 p