Fabrication of pitch-derived hard carbon via bromination-assisted pyrolysis strategy for sodium-ion batteries

Mengke Liu, Zhe Zhang, Xinghua Han, Jihao Wu and Juan Yang

Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 8118
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New insights into the effects of impurities in coal on the sodium ion storage performances of coal-derived hard carbon

Chang-Jun Wang, Zong-Lin Yi, Jing-Peng Chen, Jian-Zhang Niu, Li-Jing Xie, Su-Li Li, Xiao-Ming Li, Jun-Fen Li, Fang-Yuan Su and Cheng-Meng Chen

Journal of Power Sources, 2025, 646, 236870
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Accelerated cross-linking of petroleum pitch for efficient hard carbon synthesis: a promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries

Lantao Liu, Chengshuang Gao, Qian Xu, Songhe Yin, Zishuai Liu, Yongfeng Li and Weiwei Pang

Phys. Scr., 2026, 101, 075921
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Recent advances in the preparation strategies and performance optimization of hard carbon anode materials for sodium-ion batteries

Wangbing Wang, Gaoyun Liu, Niyizhen Wu, Wenhua Zhang, Xuelong He, Guodong Xu and Zhe Chen

Journal of Energy Storage, 2025, 139, 118910
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Selecting the molecular components of a pitch to produce a hard carbon anode with a high sodium storage capacity

Peixiang Wang, Bin Wang, Yuqi Li, Wanli Wang, Yi Sun, Longsen Song, Chenhao Liu, Iamprasertkun P., Han Hu and Mingbo Wu

New Carbon Materials, 2026, 41, 142
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Advancing sustainable energy storage: Harnessing coal-based hard carbon as a high-performance anode material for sodium-ion batteries

Xue Wang, Xin Wen, Chunrong He, Wei Song, Xinyue Chen, Ting Wang and Penggao Liu

Energy Storage Materials, 2025, 82, 104545
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Controllable homogeneous oxygen crosslinking in pitch for high-performance sodium-ion batteries by sequential air-acid-air oxidation

Yuhan Liu, Xueyan Kang, Qianxun Li, Wanran Lin, Ruohong Bian, Peiyuan Ye, Jiongjiong Li, Jiannan Pei, Feng Jiang, Hao Yang, Zhouguang Lu and Zhenghe Xu

Nano Energy, 2026, 150, 111752
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Ternary deep eutectic solvent-Mediated rapid extraction of highly crystalline cellulose enabling closed-Pore regeneration of hard carbon anode for ultrafast sodium storage

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Carbon, 2025, 243, 120594
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Twin boundaries in silicon crystals enable fast Li+ diffusion in stable silicon anode in lithium ion battery

Xiaoyun Bian, Zonglin Yi, Fei Yang, Lijing Xie, Guohua Sun, Yafeng Fan and Fangyuan Su

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2026, 1056, 186572
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Programming asphalt-derived carbon microstructures via oxygen-induced precursor restructuring for alkali-ion battery anodes

Feixiang Zhou, Yuting Hu, Yamin Pei, Qingping Wu, Houyang Chen, Fahai Cao and Jun Xu

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2026, 717, 140410
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Enhanced plateau capacity of coal liquefaction pitch-based hard carbon with polyvinylidene difluoride multifunctional synergistic effects

Mingshuo Chi, Bin Lou, Rui Hu, Fushan Wen, Ning Xiang, Shifu Cheng, Rongheng Gou and Dong Liu

Journal of Energy Storage, 2026, 144, 119834
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Upcycling asphaltene via graphite-assisted air pre-oxidation for high-performance sodium-ion battery anodes

Yuhan Liu, Xueyan Kang, Qianxun Li, Jiannan Pei, Wanran Lin, Zhouguang Lu, Feng Jiang and Zhenghe Xu

Energy Storage Materials, 2026, 84, 104881
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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

Advanced Energy Materials, 2026, 16
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Efficiently Preparing of High‐Rate Coal‐Based Hard Carbon Anodes via Plasma Pre‐Oxidation

Shengping Hou, Da Zhang, Peng Dong, Fupeng Li, Yingjie Zhou, Zhipeng Xie, Xiyue Zhang, Xu Wang, Bin Yang, Yong Lei and Feng Liang

Small Methods, 2026, 10
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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

Energy Storage Materials, 2025, 80, 104435
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Coal Tar Pitch‐Based Porous Carbon: Synthetic Strategies and Their Applications in Energy Storage

Tao Wang, Pengxu Ren, Qian Liu, Qu Zhang, Yafen Zheng, Dianzeng Jia and Dongling Wu

Adv Funct Materials, 2026, 36
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Advances in the preparation of carbon based composite and its application in sodium ion batteries

Mingjun Xiao

Journal of Power Sources, 2026, 661, 238634
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Universal Bulk Pre‐Oxidation Strategy for Programming High‐Performance Pitch‐Derived Hard Carbon Anodes

Shuaipeng Liu, Xiang Wang, Yangyang Chu, Minli Luo, Jinlin Pan, Binghao Wu, Ya‐Xia Yin and Sailong Xu

Small, 2025, 21
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Mesophase Pitch-Derived Hard Carbon via Intramolecular Oxidation Strategy for Low-Cost Sodium-Ion Batteries

Mengyao Dai, Yakun Tang, Murzabek Baikenov, Yue Zhang, Wenhai Zhang, Chensong Yang, Lang Liu and Yuliang Cao

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2025, 17, 39173
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Regulating open pores to engineer closed pores in ZIF-8-derived hard carbon for high-plateau-capacity sodium-ion batteries

Haiqiang Ma, Bo Yin, Tong Ye, Ishioma Laurene Egun, Yafei Li, Xianglan Zhang and Haiyong He

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2026, 702, 139042
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Crosslinking-mediated reconfiguration of the carbonization pathway: Enhancing the sodium storage performance of pitch-derived hard carbon

Tao Ju, Peiwen Su, Mengchun Xu, Yiyang Yan, Longjia Yuan, Jinwei Li, Yuede Pan, Qiang Bai, Ting Geng and Zhewei Yang

Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2026, 329, 119469
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Two-step directional cross-linking of pitch driving microcrystal reconstruction of hard carbon for high-rate sodium storage

Chun Wang, Juntao Du, Tianjin Li, Zexuan Zou, Jiale He, Kun Cao, Yiyao Zhang and Kedong Song

Carbon, 2026, 251, 121351
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Pitch‐derived Soft and Hard Carbon Materials for Practical Sodium‐ion Batteries

Xingyu Liu, Qiqi Li, Qi Wei, Jinhao Pan, Jiashuo Wu, Su Zhang, Bin Wang, Ning Cao and Han Hu

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
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Tailoring closed pores and interlayer spacing by air oxidation cross-linking: high-performance hard carbon anodes for Sodium-Ion batteries

Hongming Dai, Li Xiao, Jianfeng Yang, Pengcheng Liu, Pan Tang, Jing Li and Sheqiang Niu

Ionics, 2026, 32, 2883
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Closed‐Pore Engineering Based on Spatiotemporally Partitioned Radical Editing for High‐Performance Hard Carbon Anodes in Sodium‐Ion Batteries

Jialiang Yuan, Guokan Liu, Chi Wang, Fang Wan, Lang Qiu, Yao Xiao, Zhenguo Wu and Xiaodong Guo

Adv Funct Materials, 2026, 36
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Tailoring hard carbon from oxygen-rich bio-asphalt via dual-ion-interfering for high-performance sodium-ion storage

Xinhua Chen, Chenguang Bao, Kui Shi, Jinlu Xiao, Chiyu Wen, Dong Huang, Chengzhi Zhang, Fei Wang, Huafeng Quan, Qi Liu, Hongbo Liu, Jinshui Liu and Chong Ye

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 523, 168400
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Synergistic CO 2 etching and carbonization induces closed-pore structures for plateau-dominant sodium storage

Wancheng Ren, Lei Yang, Xinyu Wang, Chenglong Qiu, Jing Shi, Jingwei Chen, Weiqian Tian, Minghua Huang and Huanlei Wang

Nano Research, 2025, 18, 94908108
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Oxygen concentration-regulated etching in pitch-derived hard carbon for sodium-ion storage

Chenming Feng, Min Huang, Chiyu Wen, Ruibang Xie, Kaiwen Hou, Zongyun Shao and Fei Han

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 522, 167115
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Catalytic synthesis of closed packed antimony-incorporated hard carbon composites for enhanced sodium storage

Qianhui Fu, Mingzhu Gao, Shaoyang Dai, Peng Liu, Yanfei Hua, Ya Yao, Zhongfa Cheng, Zhongmin Wang and Jianqiu Deng

Solid State Ionics, 2026, 437, 117139
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Oxidation‐Induced Molecular Structural Transformations in Pitches with Different Softening Points Toward High Performance Sodium Storage

Wenwen Yang, Ying Mo, Wang Zhou, Biao Zheng, Guoku Liu, Mohd Zieauddin Kufian, Zurina Osman, Peng Gao, Jianfang Wu, Yan Duan, Rui Tang and Jilei Liu

Adv Funct Materials, 2025, 35
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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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