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Rationally designing surface structure by CoNx active site to evoke sodium storage sites of hard carbon

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Hard carbon materials based on natural cypress wood as high-performance anodes for sodium-ion batteries

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High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Capacitors With Kinetics‐Matched Characteristics Enabled by N/O/S‐Doped Homologous Carbon Electrodes Derived From a Single Precursor

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Tuning S Doping in Porous Carbon for Enhanced Initial Coulombic Efficiency and Rate Performance for Sodium/Potassium‐Ion Batteries

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Two-step low-temperature calcination process converts waste optical fibers into hard carbon for sodium-ion storage

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Porous Hard Carbon Derived from Indian Trumpet Flower Seeds as a High-Capacity Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Material

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Sustainable fabrication of hard carbon from longan seeds: Role of thermal treatment in tuning sodium-ion storage behavior

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Hydrogel-assisted in-situ encapsulation of transition metal sulfides: An effective strategy to significantly boost their electrochemical performance as an anode for sodium-ion batteries

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Dual-element synergy driven breakthrough in sodium storage performance of phenolic resin-based hard carbon

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An effective B-doped strategy to regulate the closed-pore formation of hard carbon nanospheres for sodium-ion batteries

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Chelation-Driven Phosphorus Doping: Upcycling Fungal Industrial Waste into Hard Carbon Anodes

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Tailoring microstructure of hard carbon by HCl-assisted hydrothermal pretreatment and subsequent modification with Al(H2PO4)3 and citric acid to boost Na+ storage performance

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Interface-oriented engineering of bio-fermented bamboo-derived carbon via F/O doping for advanced sodium-ion storage

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Facile synthesis of sp2-enriched hard carbon anodes for high-efficiency sodium storage

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B, N Co‐Doped Hard Carbon Nano‐Sponge Enhancing Half and Full Cell Performance in Na‐Ion Batteries

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Advanced interface engineering of Cu electrocatalysts to boost the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to multicarbon products

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Understanding the Key Role and Evaluation Methods of Sodium Storage Behavior/Mechanisms for Hard Carbon Anode

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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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Hydrothermal Carbonization-Assisted Synthesis of Starch-Derived N/P-Doped Hollow Hard Carbon Microspheres for Sodium-Ion Batteries

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P-doped CoSe2/FeSe2 heterojunction nanoparticles anchored on foam-like carbon skeleton as an ultrafast and stable sodium-ion storage anode

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One-step preparation P-doped sisal fiber hard carbon: a high electrochemical performance anode material for sodium ion batteries

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Synergistic effects of P-functionalization and localized graphitization in sustainable hard carbon for enhanced sodium and potassium storage

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Coal-based carbon materials with tuned ion-gates configured by carbon nanodomain curving for sodium-ion battery with 97.55% capacity retention after 1000 cycles

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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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Tailoring Closed-Pore Architectures in Biomass-Derived Hard Carbons for Superior Sodium Storage: From Structural Evolution Mechanisms to Pore Engineering

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MXene‐Scaffolded Planner Mesoporous Carbon with Homogeneous Electric Field Enabling Uniform and Robust SEI for Ultra‐Stable Sodium Storage

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Scalable hard carbon production for sodium-ion batteries: Integrated precursor selection, thermochemical conversion, and tandem processing

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Study on the regulation mechanism of sodium biphenyl concentration on the electrochemical performance of porous carbon anodes

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Biochar‐Based Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage

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Advancements in the Research of Biomass‐Based Hard Carbon Anode Materials for Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Study of the properties of glucose-based hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries synthesized by a simple two-step cross-linking method

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Phosphate ester bonds acted as nodes: Achieving directional construction of closed pore to elevate sodium storage capacity

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Precise control of the resin-based hard carbon pseudo graphite and closed pores structure to enhance sodium storage capacity

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Ultra-stable sodium-ion batteries enabled by single-atom tailoring of microbial hard carbons

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Exogenous phosphorus supplementation and sodium reduction treatment to realize N, P co-doped hard carbon with reduced oxygen-containing groups for high-performance sodium-ion batteries

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Regulating Pores and Carbonyl Groups of Biomass‐Derived Hard Carbon for Enhanced Sodium Storage

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Catalyst‐Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition Engineering of Hard Carbon with Abundant Closed Pores for High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Regulating hard carbon microstructures on graphite anode toward splendid lithium-ion storage performance below 0.5 V

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Photo-enhanced Co single-atom catalyst with a staggered p-n heterojunction: unraveling its high oxygen catalytic performance in zinc-air batteries and fuel cells

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Molten salt − assisted graded carbonization tailors hard carbon pores toward enhanced sodium ions storage

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A 3D Carbon Architecture Encapsulation Strategy for Boosting the Performance of Nickel Disulfide as an Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries

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Improving sodium ion storage performance by heteroatom strategy with nitrogen and sulfur doping carbon sheets

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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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Graphitic Lattice‐Induced Microcrystalline Engineering of Two‐Dimensional Coal‐Based Hard Carbon Materials for High‐Performance Sodium Storage

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Inner‐Wrinkled Porous Carbons via Soft‐Hard Coupling Assembly Strategy for Ultrahigh‐Capacity Lithium‐Ion Batteries

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The distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in co-doped graphene regulated by molecular control to improve sodium storage

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Repairing Carbon Defects Via Trace Phosphorus Doping for Enhanced Sodium-Ion Storage

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