Understanding of sodium storage mechanism in hard carbons: ongoing development under debate

N Sun, J Qiu, B Xu - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbons are promising anode candidates for sodium‐ion batteries due to their
excellent Na‐storage performance, abundant resources, and low cost. Despite the recent …

Prussian‐blue materials: Revealing new opportunities for rechargeable batteries

Q Wang, J Li, H Jin, S Xin, H Gao - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The demand to increase energy density of rechargeable batteries for portable electronic
devices and electric vehicles and to reduce the cost for grid‐scale energy storage …

Transition metal based battery-type electrodes in hybrid supercapacitors: A review

H Liu, X Liu, S Wang, HK Liu, L Li - Energy Storage Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Hybrid supercapacitors (HSCs) assembled with battery-type and capacitive-type electrodes
show combined advantages from both batteries and electric double-layer capacitors …

Applications of 2D MXenes in energy conversion and storage systems

J Pang, RG Mendes, A Bachmatiuk, L Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes), a family of two-dimensional (2D) inorganic
compounds, are materials composed of a few atomic layers of transition metal carbides …

Sodium metal anodes: emerging solutions to dendrite growth

B Lee, E Paek, D Mitlin, SW Lee - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This comprehensive Review focuses on the key challenges and recent progress regarding
sodium-metal anodes employed in sodium-metal batteries (SMBs). The metal anode is the …

Hard carbons for sodium-ion batteries: Structure, analysis, sustainability, and electrochemistry

X Dou, I Hasa, D Saurel, C Vaalma, L Wu, D Buchholz… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Hard carbons are extensively studied for application as anode materials in sodium-ion
batteries, but only recently a great interest has been focused toward the understanding of …

Challenges of today for Na-based batteries of the future: From materials to cell metrics

I Hasa, S Mariyappan, D Saurel, P Adelhelm… - Journal of Power …, 2021 - Elsevier
Several emerging battery technologies are currently on endeavour to take a share of the
dominant position taken by Li-ion batteries in the field of energy storage. Among them …

Extended “adsorption–insertion” model: a new insight into the sodium storage mechanism of hard carbons

N Sun, Z Guan, Y Liu, Y Cao, Q Zhu… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …

Metal selenides anode materials for sodium ion batteries: synthesis, modification, and application

Y Gong, Y Li, Y Li, M Liu, Y Bai, C Wu - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …