The ever-increasing energy demand motivates the pursuit of inexpensive, safe, scalable,
and high-performance rechargeable batteries. Carbon materials have been intensively …

Sodium ion batteries (SIBs) have attracted soaring attention lately as a promising alternative
to lithium ion batteries (LIBs), because of the vast availability of sodium, its low price and …

Hard carbons (HCs) possess high lithium/sodium storage capacities, which however suffer
from low electric conductivity and poor ion diffusion kinetics. An efficient structure design …

Energy storage and conversion play a crucial role in modern energy systems, and the
exploration of advanced electrode materials is vital but challenging. Carbon‐based …

Both plants and animals possess analogous tissues containing hierarchical networks of
pores, with pore size ratios that have evolved to maximize mass transport and rates of …

Nanostructure engineering of the active materials including decreasing the material feature
size, or designing appropriate heterostructures, offers immense promise in improving the …

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become the preferred battery system for portable electronic
devices and transportation equipment due to their high specific energy, good cycling …

Conspectus Carbon-based nanomaterials have been the focus of research interests in the
past 30 years due to their abundant microstructures and morphologies, excellent properties …

Sodium–selenium (Na–Se) batteries have aroused enormous attention due to the large
abundance of the element sodium as well as the high electronic conductivity and volumetric …

Herein, a robust MOFs-derived super-carbon embedding with single atom Co/Ni anode
materials for LIBs is developed by one-step annealing of the core–shell precursor ZIF-8 …