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

Topological quantum materials (TQMs) have symmetry-protected band structures with useful
electronic properties that have applications in information, sensing, energy and other …

We review the recent, mainly theoretical, progress in the study of topological nodal line
semimetals in three dimensions. In these semimetals, the conduction and the valence bands …

Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have
attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest …

Graphene has been expected to revolutionize the electronics, but suffered from its zero
bandgap that will lead to an unacceptable leakage current in graphene-based transistors …

Topological semimetals are newly discovered states of quantum matter, which have
extended the concept of topological states from insulators to metals and attracted great …

Despite the development of various anode materials and the passing of thirty years from the
earliest marketed lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), graphite continues to be a dominant anode for …

Carbon nanoarchitectures derived from biobased building blocks are potential sustainable
alternatives to electrode materials generated with petroleum-derived resources. We aim at …

Based on first-principles calculations and effective model analysis, we propose that the WC-
type HfC, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), can host a three-dimensional nodal …

Topological state of matter and lithium batteries are currently two hot topics in science and
technology. Here we combine these two by exploring the possibility of using all-carbon …