With the increasing demand for wearable electronics (such as smartwatch equipment,
wearable health monitoring systems, and human–robot interface units), flexible energy …

Cellulose, an abundant natural polymer, has promising potential to be used for energy
storage systems because of its excellent mechanical, structural, and physical characteristics …

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have shown promising prospects for complementarity to lithium-
ion batteries (LIBs) in the field of grid-scale energy storage. After a decade of continuous …

There is no doubt that rechargeable batteries will play a huge role in the future of the world.
Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries might be the ideal middle-ground between high performance …

Although the closed pore structure plays a key role in contributing low-voltage plateau
capacity of hard carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries, the formation mechanism of closed …

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) and potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) are potential cost-effective
electrochemical energy storage devices for future grid-scale energy storage. However, the …

Defective hard carbons are deliberated as promising candidates for sodium-ion battery (SIB)
anodes of this decade. Recently, several groups have discussed the structure-property …

The ever-increasing silicon photovoltaics industry produces a huge annual production of
silicon waste (2.03× 105 tons in 2019), while lignin is one of the main waste materials in the …

A facile approach was developed to fabricate nitrogen/oxygen (N/O) codoped carbon
anodes by direct carbonization of cellulose nanocrystal/polyaniline (CNC/PANi) …

Hard carbons from cellulose are highly regarded as promising anode options for sodium-ion
batteries (SIBs). However, a high carbonization temperature (> 1300° C) is usually required …