Ionic-conductive sodium titanate to boost sodium-ion transport kinetics of hard carbon anode in sodium-ion batteries

F Wang, F Li, H Gong, Y Zhang, X Liu, Z Jiang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hard carbon with abundant resources, low-cost, and high specific capacity, is a promising
anode material for large-scale sodium-ion batteries. However, the poor rate performance of …

Hollow ultra-microporous carbon spheres as high-rate anode nanomaterials for sodium-ion batteries

ZA Jin, R Zhang, W Zhai, S Liu, C Deng, S Xu - Electrochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Hollow porous carbon spheres are considered as promising anode nanomaterials for
sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), but suffer from the problems of poor rate and cycling …

Graphitic Carbocatalysts with Pentagon Defects Synthesized from Polyperylene for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Flexible Zinc-Air Batteries

X Mou, Q Yang, B Zhao, X Xin, J Zhang… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Carbocatalysts have been widely explored in renewable energy systems, such as fuel cells
and metal-air batteries, and their performance critically hinges upon the intricate balance …

Insight into the effect of structural differences among pitch fractions on sodium storage performance of pitch-derived hard carbons

X Zhang, Z Yi, Y Tian, L Xie, F Su, X Wei, J Chen… - Carbon, 2024 - Elsevier
Pitch is an excellent precursor of hard carbons (HCs) with low-cost and high carbon content,
enabling its commercial-scale application in sodium-ion batteries. Pre-oxidation is the key to …

MoS2, WS2, and MoWS2 Flakes as Reversible Host Materials for Sodium-Ion and Potassium-Ion Batteries

A Roy, S Dey, G Singh - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their alloys are vital for the development of
sustainable and economical energy storage alternatives due to their large interlayer spacing …