Promises and challenges of next-generation “beyond Li-ion” batteries for electric vehicles and grid decarbonization

Y Tian, G Zeng, A Rutt, T Shi, H Kim, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The tremendous improvement in performance and cost of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have
made them the technology of choice for electrical energy storage. While established battery …

Untangling the respective effects of heteroatom-doped carbon materials in batteries, supercapacitors and the ORR to design high performance materials

X Feng, Y Bai, M Liu, Y Li, H Yang, X Wang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Heteroatom-doped carbon materials (HDCMs) have been widely studied as some of the
most prominent material candidates for use in a wide range of applications, such as …

Revisiting Lithium‐and Sodium‐Ion Storage in Hard Carbon Anodes

H Kim, JC Hyun, DH Kim, JH Kwak, JB Lee… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The galvanostatic lithiation/sodiation voltage profiles of hard carbon anodes are simple, with
a slo** drop followed by a plateau. However, a precise understanding of the …

Boost sodium-ion batteries to commercialization: Strategies to enhance initial Coulombic efficiency of hard carbon anode

M Zhang, Y Li, F Wu, Y Bai, C Wu - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are regarded as one of the most promising candidates for large-
scale energy storage system due to low cost and inexhaustible sodium reserves. The …

Porous carbons: structure‐oriented design and versatile applications

W Tian, H Zhang, X Duan, H Sun… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Porous carbon materials have demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of energy‐
and environment‐related applications. Over the past decades, tremendous efforts have …

Revealing the intercalation mechanisms of lithium, sodium, and potassium in hard carbon

S Alvin, HS Cahyadi, J Hwang, W Chang… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbon is the most promising anode material for sodium‐ion batteries and potassium‐
ion batteries owing to its high stability, widespread availability, low‐cost, and excellent …

Understanding synthesis–structure–performance correlations of nanoarchitectured activated carbons for electrochemical applications and carbon capture

S Zhang, M Zheng, Y Tang, R Zang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Activated carbons are one of the most important classes of high‐surface‐area porous
materials. Owing to their unique structure, low price, and large‐scale production technology …

Hard carbons for sodium-ion batteries and beyond

F **e, Z Xu, Z Guo, MM Titirici - Progress in Energy, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are one of the most promising alternatives to lithium-ion
batteries (LIBs), due to the much more abundant resources of Na compared with Li in the …

Porous carbon nanosheets: Synthetic strategies and electrochemical energy related applications

Y He, X Zhuang, C Lei, L Lei, Y Hou, Y Mai, X Feng - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of two-dimensional (2D) porous carbon nanosheets (PCNs) with an
interlinked hierarchical porous structure has attracted great attention due to their synergetic …

Manipulating adsorption–insertion mechanisms in nanostructured carbon materials for high‐efficiency sodium ion storage

S Qiu, L **ao, ML Sushko, KS Han… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbon is one of the most promising anode materials for sodium‐ion batteries, but the
low Coulombic efficiency is still a key barrier. In this paper, a series of nanostructured hard …