The powerful and rapid development of lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) in secondary batteries
field makes lithium resources in short supply, leading to rising battery costs. Under the …

Carbon materials, including graphite, hard carbon, soft carbon, graphene, and carbon
nanotubes, are widely used as high‐performance negative electrodes for sodium‐ion and …

Engineering novel electrode materials with unique architectures has a significant impact on
tuning the structural/electrochemical properties for boosting the performance of secondary …

Hard carbons (HCs) are promising anodes of sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) due to their high
capacity, abundance, and low cost. However, the sodium storage mechanism of HCs …

Hard carbon (HC) is a promising anode material for sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) and
potassium‐ion batteries (PIBs), but the volume change during the insertion/extraction of Na+ …

Owing to the low cost and indefinite availability of sodium resources, rechargeable sodium-
ion batteries (SIBs) are now being considered as the most appealing alternatives to their …

Transition metal selenides have been widely used in alkali metal ion batteries owing to their
high specific capacities and low cost. However, their reaction kinetics and structural stability …

The research of sodium/potassium‐ion batteries (SIBs/KIBs) still has some way to go but its
success could possibly radically alter the way electricity is stored and used. As the key part …

ZnSe is regarded as a promising anode material for energy storage due to its high
theoretical capacity and environment friendliness. Nevertheless, it is still a significant …

ZnSe nanoparticles@ nitrogen-doped hollow polyhedron composite (ZnSe NP@ NHC) was
synthesized through the convenient pyrolysis of ZIF-8 precursor and subsequent …