Energy and water are of fundamental importance for our modern society, and advanced
technologies on sustainable energy storage and conversion as well as water resource …

For more than 20 years, most of the technological achievements for the realization of
positive electrodes for practical rechargeable Li battery systems have been devoted to …

The development of synthetic routes to hierarchically organized porous materials containing
multiple, discrete sets of pores having disparate length scales is of high interest for a wide …

Functional hydrogels are an attractive material platform for energy-storage technologies.
Thus, the development of hydrogels with enhanced physicochemical properties (eg …

We report the use of free-standing, lightweight, and highly conductive ultrathin graphite foam
(UGF), loaded with lithium iron phosphate (LFP), as a cathode in a lithium ion battery. At a …

Nanostructured materials are critically important in many areas of technology because of
their unusual physical/chemical properties due to confined dimensions. Owing to their …

The synthesis of carbon aerogels by sol–gel like processes, ie, hard templating, phase
demixing, hydrothermal carbonization techniques, as well as by ionothermal syntheses are …

Large-scale battery systems are essential for efficiently utilizing renewable energy power
sources from solar and wind, which can generate electricity only intermittently. The use of …

Coral-like α-MnS composites with nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) were designed as anode
materials for lithium-ion batteries. A facile two-step method was developed to synthesize the …

Hierarchically porous materials with large pores in the micrometer range and small pores in
the nanometer range, where the large pores facilitate mass transport and the small pores …