Reconfiguring hard carbons with emerging sodium‐ion batteries: a perspective

Y Chu, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Li, Y Jia, X Dong… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbons, an important category of amorphous carbons, are non‐graphitizable and are
widely accepted as the most promising anode materials for emerging sodium‐ion batteries …

Boosting the Development of Hard Carbon for Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Strategies to Optimize the Initial Coulombic Efficiency

Y Yang, C Wu, XX He, J Zhao, Z Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given the merits of affordable cost, superior low‐temperature performance, and advanced
safe properties, sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) have exhibited great development potential in …

Catalytic defect‐repairing using manganese ions for hard carbon anode with high‐capacity and high‐initial‐Coulombic‐efficiency in sodium‐ion batteries

J Zhao, XX He, WH Lai, Z Yang, XH Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbon (HC) anodes have shown extraordinary promise for sodium‐ion batteries, but
are limited to their poor initial coulombic efficiency (ICE) and low practical specific capacity …

One stone two birds: Pitch assisted microcrystalline regulation and defect engineering in coal-based carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries

H Chen, N Sun, Y Wang, RA Soomro, B Xu - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Coal-based carbons with abundant resources and low cost are regarded as promising
anode materials for sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs). However, their ordered carbon …

Rationally designing closed pore structure by carbon dots to evoke sodium storage sites of hard carbon in low‐potential region

Y Huang, X Zhong, X Hu, Y Li, K Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbon (HC) is widely regarded as the most promising anode material for sodium‐ion
batteries (SIBs). For improving the sodium storage capacity of HC anode, current research …

Dual‐interfering chemistry for soft‐hard carbon translation toward fast and durable sodium storage

H He, J He, H Yu, L Zeng, D Luo… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Direct pyrolysis of low‐cost and resource‐abundant pitch generally produces highly
graphitized soft carbon, showing low reversible capacity and a negligible charge‐discharge …

Engineering ultrathin carbon layer on porous hard carbon boosts sodium storage with high initial coulombic efficiency

D Cheng, Z Li, M Zhang, Z Duan, J Wang, C Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hard carbon (HC) has been widely adopted as the anode material for sodium ion batteries
(NIBs). However, it is troubled by a low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) due to its porous …

Closed pore engineering of activated carbon enabled by waste mask for superior sodium storage

S Zhang, N Sun, X Li, RA Soomro, B Xu - Energy Storage Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbonaceous materials with closed pore structure have emerged as intriguing anode
materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). However, it remains a significant challenge to …

Trash to treasure: Sulfonation-assisted transformation of waste masks into high-performance carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries

S Zhang, N Sun, M Jiang, RA Soomro, B Xu - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
The global pandemic of COVID-19 poses significant challenge to the recycling of disposable
polypropylene (PP)-based waste masks. Herein, a simple but effective sulfonation route has …

An ultrastable sodium-ion battery anode enabled by carbon-coated porous NaTi2 (PO4) 3 olive-like nanospheres

Y Man, J Sun, X Zhao, L Duan, Y Fei, J Bao… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract NaTi 2 (PO 4) 3 (NTP) is a promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs).
It has drawn wide attention because of its stable three-dimensional NASICON-type structure …