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Improving the Initial Coulombic Efficiency of Carbonaceous Materials for Li/Na-Ion Batteries: Origins, Solutions, and Perspectives

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A comprehensive review of agricultural waste activated carbon as anodes for lithium-ion batteries

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Facile construction of high-performance sodium-ion battery anodes from sulfur-oxygen synergistically modified anthracite coal

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Natural mushroom spores derived hard carbon plates for robust and low-potential sodium ion storage

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Scalable synthesis of N/S co-doped hard carbon microspheres as a high-performance anode material for sodium-ion batteries

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Sucrose-anthracite composite supplemented by KOH&HCl washing strategy for high-performance carbon anode material of sodium-ion batteries

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Surface-dominated storage of heteroatoms-doping hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries

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Hollow carbon nanofibers with self-induced internal electric field for high-performance full-carbon sodium ion capacitors

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Heteroatom-doped carbon-based materials for lithium and sodium ion batteries

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Multiple Active Sites Carbonaceous Anodes for Na+ Storage: Synthesis, Electrochemical Properties and Reaction Mechanism Analysis

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Plant-derived hard carbon as anode for sodium-ion batteries: A comprehensive review to guide interdisciplinary research

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Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 447, 137468
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Advancing Energy Storage Technologies Beyond Lithium With Cellulose‐Derived Sustainable Carbon Materials

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One-step production of carbon nanocages for supercapacitors and sodium-ion batteries

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Deciphering Sodium Storage in Hard Carbon Anodes: A Review on the Interplay of Microstructure, Interfacial Engineering, and Electrochemical Performance

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Yolk‐Shell‐Structured Nanospheres with Goat Pupil‐Like S‐Doped SnSe Yolk and Hollow Carbon‐Shell Configuration as Anode Material for Sodium‐Ion Storage

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Amorphous quantum dots enable V2O5 with superior Mg storage

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S-doped carbon materials: Synthesis, properties and applications

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Binary heteroatom doping enhanced the sodium storage performance of porous carbon nanofibers with fast kinetics

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Tannin-derived sulfur-doped carbon with tunable porosity and dilated interlayer spacing for reversible Na-ion diffusion

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Biomass-derived carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries

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Progress in the preparation of bamboo-derived hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries: Microstructure, mechanisms, and performance optimization

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Integrated N, P co-doped and dense carbon networks produced by a chemical crosslinking strategy: Facilitating high gravimetric/volumetric performance sodium ion batteries

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Tuning morphology, defects and functional group types in hard carbon via phosphorus doped for rapid sodium storage

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High‐Performance Manganese Hexacyanoferrate with Cubic Structure as Superior Cathode Material for Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Adv Funct Materials, 2020, 30
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Microstructure engineering in sulfuretted coal tar pitch by varying the Cross-Link state for enhanced sodium storage

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N/O/P-rich three-dimensional carbon network for fast sodium storage

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Cellulose-Based Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries: Advancements in Anodes, Electrolyte Systems, and Binders

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Insights into multifarious heteroatom-doped/enriched carbon-based materials and their composites: Synthesis and Supercapacitor applications − A crucial review

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Nitrogen/phosphorus co-doped ultramicropores hard carbon spheres for rapid sodium storage

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Revealing the sodium storage mechanism of cellulose separator-derived hard carbon anode materials for sodium-ion batteries

Xi Zhang, Rui Duan, Tiejun Zheng, Peiting Chen, Xuewen Yu, Zhijun Qiao and Dianbo Ruan

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Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks derived ZnS/Co3S4 composite nanoparticles doping on polyhedral carbon framework for efficient lithium/sodium storage anode materials

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Reduktive Kohlenstoffmaterialien: Einstellung der chemischen und elektronischen Eigenschaften zur Verbesserung von Natrium‐Ionen‐Batterien

Elif Begüm Yılmaz, Enis Oğuzhan Eren, Tim Horner, Zihan Song, Yasaman Sheidaei, Inke Siewert, Evgeny Senokos and Paolo Giusto

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Heteroatom Doping: An Effective Way to Boost Sodium Ion Storage

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Advanced Energy Materials, 2020, 10
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Modeling Electrochemical Na/K-Storage Behaviors of Carbonaceous Materials

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Synergistic Manipulation of Na+ Flux and Surface‐Preferred Effect Enabling High‐Areal‐Capacity and Dendrite‐Free Sodium Metal Battery

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Potential of porous nodal-line semi-metallic carbon for sodium-ion battery anode

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Dual anion-doped porous carbon embraced TiO2 nanocrystals with long-term cycling performance for sodium ion batteries

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Magnesium-induced sulfur fixation strategy for the preparation of high-sulfur doped carbon with superior Na storage performance

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Compounding CoSX onto lignin hard carbon realized multi-voltage plateau sodium storage

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Advances in the use of biomass-derived carbons for sodium-ion batteries

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One-step large-scale fabrication of Bi@N-doped carbon for ultrahigh-rate and long-life sodium-ion battery anodes

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Ultrafast flame growth of carbon nanotubes for high-rate sodium storage

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Novel synthesis of highly phosphorus-doped carbon as an ultrahigh-rate anode for sodium ion batteries

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Recent Progress in Biomass-Derived Carbon Materials for Li-Ion and Na-Ion Batteries—A Review

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Superior sodium storage anode constructed via chemical bonding between S-doped hard carbon and graphene oxide binder

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