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Axial fluorine coordination boosts the activity and durability of Fe single-atom catalysts in room-temperature Na–S batteries

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Spray-dried hard carbon–Sn composites for energy-dense Na-ion batteries

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Interfacial chemistry regulation by orbital hybridization for superior kinetics of hard carbon in an ester-based electrolyte

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Chemical regulation of carbonization enables structure-tailored hard carbon anodes from recycled polypropylene separators

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Direct regeneration of hard carbon anodes from spent sodium-ion batteries via flash Joule heating

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Green upcycling of retired asphalt into “vortex-crosslinked” carbon anodes for high-performance sodium-ion batteries

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Flame-retardant polymer-enabled space-confined carbonization toward quasi-spherical hard carbon for high-rate sodium storage

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Carbon engineering for sodium batteries: multi-role architectures bridging material design and hybrid system innovation

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Understanding the effects of cellulose polymorphism on hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries

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An eco-friendly citric acid-activated high-performance coal-derived hard carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries

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Decoupling structure–performance relationships in hard carbon anodes: a comparative study of slope- and plateau-dominated sodium storage mechanisms

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Resolving the true sodium storage sites in hard carbon: the essential role of hydrogen termination

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Insight into closed pore formation of coal-based hard carbon and its application for high-performance sodium-ion battery

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Precise Decoupling of Biomass Components to Engineer Hard Carbon Microcrystalline Architecture for Enhanced Sodium‐Ion Storage Performance

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Efficiently Preparing of High‐Rate Coal‐Based Hard Carbon Anodes via Plasma Pre‐Oxidation

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Structural Modulation of Hard Carbons via Composition Regulation toward Efficient Sodium Storage

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Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2025, 9
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Melt-carbonization of liquid metal organic frameworks reconfigured hard carbon surface with boosted sodium storage

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CO2 activation-induced closed pores in hard carbon derived from bamboo for enhanced sodium-ion storage

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Endogenous Template‐Directed Topological Engineering of Lignite‐Derived Hard Carbons for Kinetically Accelerated Sodium Storage

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In Situ Reconstruction of Pseudographitic Carbon Microcrystallites With Rich Closed Nanopores for Extended Sodium Plateau Storage

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Polydopamine‐Assisted Synergistic Regulation of Surface Chemistry and Pore Architecture in Petroleum Coke‐Derived Carbons for High‐Power Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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A Weak-Fluorine-Bond Molecule Stabilizes Hard Carbon Anodes for Practical Sodium-Ion Batteries

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Tailoring hard carbon anodes via molecular engineering: Enabling high-rate sodium-ion storage by cross-linking degree regulation

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Potential‐Tailored Aryl–Sodium Reagent with Moderate Ionic Binding Strength Enables Precise yet Fast Hard Carbon Presodiation

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Restructuring hard carbon microstructure via mechanical-physical activation and thermodynamic driving force synergy to enhance sodium storage performance

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Electrospinning-driven nanofiber architectures for electrodes of sodium-ion batteries: From rational design to high-performance

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Sustainable waste-to-value approach: Walnut kernel waste-derived hard carbon with high-rate and cycle life for sodium-ion batteries

Muhammad Ishaq, Maher Jabeen, Yana Li, Yixing Shen, Shuzhi Zhao, Xiang Zhang and Zifeng Ma

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Closed-pore engineering of hard carbon via three-stage pyrolysis toward high initial coulombic efficiency in sodium-ion batteries

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Step-temperature strategy enables closed-pores in hard carbon achieving high plateau capacity for sodium ion storage

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Achieving a High Plateau Capacity in Pitch-Based Carbon Anodes via Dual-Step Pre-Oxidation for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Jiayao Zhang, Xiaotian Li, Hongchuan Zhang, Liewen Guo, Wensheng Chen, Chunfeng Duan, Wenhui Sun, Lantao Liu, Qian Xu, Weiwei Pang and Huaihe Song

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2026, 18, 3731
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Physics-informed machine learning exploration of Na storage mechanisms in disordered carbon

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Unlocking Kinetic Limitations in Hard‐Carbon Anodes to Enable Practical Fast‐Charging Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Advanced Energy Materials, 2026, 16
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Kinetically controlled microstructural engineering of hard carbon via transient sintering: Decoupling the contributions of graphitic domains and closed pores to sodium storage

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Sustainable Hard Carbon for Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Precursor Design and Scalable Production Roadmaps

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Recent advances in red phosphorus-carbon composites for lithium/sodium-ion batteries: Challenges, synthesis strategies, and prospects

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Revisiting sodium storage mechanisms in closed-pore hard carbons: nucleation vs. clustering under potential-driven charge effects

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Self‐Sealing Molten‐Salt Microreactors Enable Controllable High‐N Doping in Air for Durable and Fast Sodium Storage

Danling Zhang, Jialin Zhou, Dawei Chai, Huimin Li, Shiyu Hu, Niandi Chen and Hai Wang

Adv Funct Materials, 2026
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Joule Heating Driven Graphitization Regulation and Ni Single‐Atom Modification in Hard Carbon for Low‐Voltage and High‐Rate Potassium‐Ion Storage

Lei Yang, Huaipeng Pang, Wancheng Ren, Xinyu Wang, Yuchen Wei, Pengfei Lu, Jingwei Chen, Weiqian Tian, Minghua Huang and Huanlei Wang

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Crosslinked starch-derived hard carbon with abundant closed pores for enhanced plateau capacity in sodium-ion storage

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Carbon, 2026, 247, 121020
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Synergistic regulation of closed pore architecture and interface engineering in hard carbon for high energy density sodium-ion batteries

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Suppressing high-voltage phase transition of P2 type oxides by a precise composition tailoring strategy to realize high energy and stable sodium-ion batteries

Ji Shi, Yichi Zhang, Binglong Wan, Chenchen He, Zhengjia Xu, Jie Xu, Lianbo Ma, Xingqiao Wu and Bo Peng

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Bioacid mediated biocarbon for competitive sodium-ion battery

Xinlin Shi, Guobiao Jin, Jie Lin, Feng Jin, Rui Liu, Lu Wang, Yumeng Lan, Zhihao Shen, Qimin Tian, Hongzhou Lu, Xinjun Qian, Qingsong Wang, Keao Wu, Junping Jia, Haipeng Yang, Hai Lin, Zirui Lou and Feng Pan

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Oxidative torrefaction-modulated preparation of biochar supported Ni catalysts for catalytic cracking of bio-oil heavy fractions

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Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 2026, 194, 107496
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Ion-Mediated Carbon Microdomain Engineering Boosting Enhanced Plateau Capacity of Carbon Anode under High Rate Towards High-Performance Sodium Dual-Ion Batteries

Bin Tang, Yuchen Zhang, Bifa Ji, Geng Yu, Yongping Zheng, Xiaolong Zhou, Nuntaporn Kamonsutthipaijit, Pornsuwan Buangam, Sarayut Tunmee, Hideki Nakajima, Ukit Rittihong, Qingguang Pan, Fan Zhang and Yongbing Tang

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Sulfonation-crosslinking enabled thiophenic sulfur anchoring and tailored porosity in hard carbon anodes for high-rate sodium-ion storage

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Charcoal-derived hard carbon anodes with enhanced sodium storage performance for sodium-ion batteries

Shengchen Yang, Yan Li, Chun Chen, Hui Wang, Kaihang Wang, Qingqing Li, Ruize Dong, Manman Chen, Cai Zhao, Weiwei Xu, Lin Sun, Tao Zhang, Kehua Dai, Guosheng Shao and Jing Mao

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Understanding the Relationship between the Main Components of Precursor and the Structure and Performance of Biomass-Derived Hard Carbon

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ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2026, 18, 20377
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Engineering Closed-Pore Hard Carbon Anodes through Biomass Molecular Grafting to Enhance Plateau Capacity in Advanced Sodium-Ion Batteries

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Realizing Hard Carbon Anodes with Dual‐High Slope and Plateau Capacities: From Precursor Design Principle to Sodium Storage Mechanism

Jianqi Xiao, Junlin Song, Meng Li, Zhihong Lu, Masatsugu Fujishige, Kenji Takeuchi, Morinobu Endo, Xiaoxia Li, Jin Niu and Feng Wang

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Closed‐Pore Engineering Based on Spatiotemporally Partitioned Radical Editing for High‐Performance Hard Carbon Anodes in Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Interfacial electronic reconfiguration unlock exceptional capacitance and stability: Quantum confinement and orbital rehybridization effects in dimensionally engineered NiO@Carbon electrodes

Ronghua Li, Youpeng Lu, Jieying Jing, Caizhu Liu, Ruiqi Wang, Tongyu He, Yuhua Wu, Jianbo Wu, Hui Zhang and Hongcun Bai

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2026, 1055, 186440
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Covalent Quantum Bridging Enables Bicontinuous Electron–Ion Highways in Hard Carbon for Ultrafast Sodium Storage

Li-Zhi Xu, Jun-Xiong Chen, De-Guang Liu, Kun Zhao, Ting-Ting Liu, Lei Huang, Shi-Yan Hu, Tian-Qi Yin, Tao Zhang, Jie Song, Zhen-Lin Wu, Chuang Li and Yao Fu

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Recent Advances of High‐Rate Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Correlations Between Performance and Microstructure

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Synergistic catalytic graphitization and etching in molten salts enables high-performance wood-derived carbon electrodes for sustainable energy storage

Runze Cheng, Wenkai Chen, Junjie Wei, Hongjie Shen, Yuanhao Zhang, Mingwei Xu, Zhenwu Chen, Shipeng Li, Xi Chen, Xin Zheng, Sai Wu, Yajun Pang, Zhongqing Ma and Hao Chen

Nano Materials Science, 2026
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Reducing steric hindrance to enhance the oxidation reactivity of coal precursors for high-performance hard carbons in sodium-ion batteries

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Flash upcycling waste activated carbon into high-performance sodium-ion anodes via joule heating: Dual regulation of microcrystals and pore configuration

Yong Gao, Zuxu Wang, You Li, Ronghuan Lv, Jiale Chen, Zhenhua Dong, Wenjun Zhang and Rongtao Zhu

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Deciphering Atomic Electronic Structure Dynamics and Site Occupancy Transitions in Dictating Sodium Storage in Hard Carbon

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Molecular‐Level Design of Asphalt‐Derived Hard Carbon with Enhanced Ion/Electron Transport for High‐Rate Sodium‐Ion Batteries

Yujian Tang, Chuanpei Sun, Jinwei Tian, Yingjie Sun, Weiying Jia, Ziang Cui, Wenlong Tian, Chunli Guo, Yong Qian and Ning Lin

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A safe single-anion ionic liquid electrolyte for high-performance sodium metal batteries

Long Wang, Zhibin Li, Guokai Shi, Miaoran Deng, Xusheng Wang, Hui Ying Yang, Wenjie Mai and Jinliang Li

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 522, 167910
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Molecular reconfiguration of pitch-derived hard carbon anodes with balanced thermodynamic stability and rapid sodium storage kinetics for high-performance sodium-ion batteries

Chuangchuang Li, Qinghang Chen, Yinghao Zhang, Pandeng Zhao, Xiangxi He, Qinfen Gu, Jiazhao Wang, Shu-Lei Chou and Xingqiao Wu

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From Waste to Power: Gas–Solid Coupling-Modified Rubber Carbon Anodes with 87% Coulombic Efficiency for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Danqing Li, Xin He, Linlin Wang, Mei Ding, Chunhui Gao and Chuankun Jia

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2025, 13, 15969
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An amphiphilic chitosan binder regulates SEI microenvironment for highly reversible sodium storage in hard carbon anodes

Tianyun Zhang, Changhong Zhao, Tian Zhang, Fujuan Wang, Lirong Zhang and Fen Ran

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Unlocking the potential of fossil fuel-derived hard carbons in sodium-ion batteries: Mechanistic insight and design strategies

Yifan Chai, Zonglin Yi, Jiechen Guo, Xiaoqian Guo, Cancan Hong, Ge Song, Yafeng Fan, Wen Li, Xiao-Ming Li, Lijing Xie and Fangyuan Su

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Effect of pore structure regulation in coconut shell-derived hard carbon on sodium storage capacity

Tianchi Shen, Yangkai Sun, Zijian He, Gongxin Dai, Bin Ru, Pengcheng Qiu and Shurong Wang

Electrochimica Acta, 2025, 538, 147046
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Unraveling the degradation mechanisms of the P3 transformed phase in O3-type NaNi1/3Mn1/3Fe1/3O2 cathode for sodium-ion batteries

Jinze Guo, Xiaochong Zhou, Hang Liu, Yong Li, Weiwei Zha, Yuepeng Qiao, Xin Long, Youchen Hao and Wenbin Ni

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1046, 184868
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Establishing structure-property relationships grounded in oxidation strategy engineering to unravel the triggering mechanism of Na+ filling in hard carbon closed pore

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Dual-regulation of pore confinement and mouth size for enhanced sodium storage in hard carbon

Zhiyuan Liu, Xin Wang, Xuan Xie, Yue Li, Hui Peng, Guofu Ma and Ziqiang Lei

Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2026, 112, 1
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Atomic-level Fe/N-coordinated biomass hard carbon for fast-charging sodium-ion batteries

Wei He, Wenxiu He, Siting Zheng, Puwu Liang, Yihao Yang, Ahmed Abdel-Aziz, Mujtaba Aminu Muhammad, Xiang Hu, Suqin Ci and Zhenhai Wen

Energy Storage Materials, 2026, 88, 105055
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Graphitic Lattice‐Induced Microcrystalline Engineering of Two‐Dimensional Coal‐Based Hard Carbon Materials for High‐Performance Sodium Storage

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Time-sequence autogenous shrinkage engineering toward hard carbon anodes with dominant closed porosity for high-performance sodium-ion batteries

Shendong Xu, Peiyao Wang, Bangchuan Zhao, Xiaojun He and Xingqiao Wu

Energy Storage Materials, 2026, 88, 105107
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Synergistic activation and doping strategy for regulating the microstructure of bamboo-derived hard carbon to enhance sodium-ion storage performance

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Balancing defect chemistry and closed pores for enhanced dual-region sodium storage in hard carbon anodes

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DNA‐Inspired Crosslinked Graphite Flakes Assemblies for Constructing Closed‐Pore in Cellulose‐Derived Hard Carbon

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Thermal Gradients Optimizing the Microstructure of Hard Carbon for Practical Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Structure Engineering of Coal Pitch-Derived Hard Carbon by Molecular Locking and Multi-Stage Pore Forming for Enhanced Sodium Storage

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ACS Nano, 2026, 20, 7988
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Catalytic Copyrolysis Strategy for Coal-Derived Hard Carbons with Enlarged Interlayer Spacing and Closed Pores toward High-Capacity Sodium-Ion Batteries

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Unraveling Interfacial Failure Challenges and Mitigation Strategies in Phosphorus-Based Sodium-Ion Batteries

Li Lei, Bingchen Zhang, Fanghong Zeng, Jun Gan, Huanhuan Wu, Chen Yu, Zhexi Xiao, Lidan Xing and Weishan Li

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High‐Compaction Spherical Carbon with Tunable Rich Pore Structures for Efficient Sodium Storage

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Tailoring the pore architecture of cotton stalk-derived hard carbon by oxygen functional groups for enhanced sodium storage plateau capacity

Hongyu Ning, Yonghui Zhang, Dongjiao Wang, Qingxuan Geng, Qingwei Li, Paul K. Chu and Kaifu Huo

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Overcoming the Trade-Off between Initial Coulombic Efficiency and Rate Performance in Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium-Ion Storage

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