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Molecular Oxidative Cross-Linking Engineering of Low-Cost Pitch to Hard Carbon Anodes for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries

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Regulating the Nanosheets Structures in Pitch‐Derived Amorphous Carbons for Efficient Sodium‐Ion Storage

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Catalytic synthesis of closed packed antimony-incorporated hard carbon composites for enhanced sodium storage

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Substitution Index‐Prediction Rules for Low‐Potential Plateau of Hard Carbon Anodes in Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Tailoring hard carbon from oxygen-rich bio-asphalt via dual-ion-interfering for high-performance sodium-ion storage

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Oxidation‐Induced Molecular Structural Transformations in Pitches with Different Softening Points Toward High Performance Sodium Storage

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Mass‐Transfer Engineered Synthesis of Pitch‐Derived Hard Carbons for Enhanced Sodium Storage

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Recent Progress on Non‑Biomass Carbon‑Based Anodes for Sodium‑Ion Batteries

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Dual-defect regulation of pitch-based carbon anodes for achieving high sodium storage performance

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One-Step Construction of Closed Pores Enabling High Plateau Capacity Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries: Closed-Pore Formation and Energy Storage Mechanisms

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

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Microstructure modulation of hard carbon derived from long-flame coal to improve electrochemical sodium storage performances

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Metal Chloride‐Induced Hydrogen Transfer Enables Efficient Conversion of Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Sodium Storage

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Growth space engineering of closed pores in hard carbon for low-temperature sodium-ion batteries

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Molecular Descriptor‐Directed Microstructural Regulation of Asphalt‐Derived Hard Carbons for Advanced Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Oxygen‐Crosslinker Effect on the Electrochemical Characteristics of Asphalt‐Based Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Regulating Closed Pore Structure of Coal-Based Hard Carbon Anode by Preoxidation for High-Rate Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries

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Tailoring the Optical Properties of Coal Pitch-Derived Carbon Dots by Graphitization Controlling

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A review of petroleum asphalt-based carbon materials in electrochemical energy storage

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Benzenetricarboxylic acid assisted-air blowing oxidation on the efficient preparation of flexible coal tar pitch/polyacrylonitrile carbon nanofibers

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Construction of hard carbon with abundant closed ultra-micropores via a pre-oxidation strategy for high-efficiency sodium storage in the low potential plateau

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Releasing Free Radicals in Precursor Triggers the Formation of Closed Pores in Hard Carbon for Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Synthesis of lignite-derived carbon materials for fast sodium-ion storage in a wide temperature range by ultrafast Joule heating

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A Universal Strategy for Defect‐Rich Porous Carbons via Air‐Montmorillonite Assisted Carbonization Toward High‐Performance Zinc‐Ion Hybrid Capacitors

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Tailoring the Micronanostructure of Hard Carbon via Ball-Milling for Sodium-Ion Storage

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Highways Construction in Amorphous Carbon Anode Enables 10C Fast‐Charging Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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New insights into the effects of impurities in coal on the sodium ion storage performances of coal-derived hard carbon

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Study on the air oxidative modification and coking behavior of medium- and Low-Temperature coal tar pitch

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Sodium Ion Diffusion Behavior in Multiple Open/Closed Pore Ratios of Novel β-Cyclodextrin-Derived Hard Carbon Anode Materials

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Accelerated cross-linking of petroleum pitch for efficient hard carbon synthesis: a promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries

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Molecular sieving and skeletal engineering of a pitch precursor to overcome reaction heterogeneity for high-performance hard carbon anodes in sodium-ion batteries

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Bifunctional crosslinking-induced structural engineering towards improved sodium storage in pitch-derived hard carbon

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Regulating the Nanosheets Structures in Pitch‐Derived Amorphous Carbons for Efficient Sodium‐Ion Storage

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Coal-based humic acid-derived nitrogen-doped hard carbon with enhanced dynamics for high performance sodium-ion capacitor anode

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Lowering Energy Barriers of Free Radicals Facilitates Defect‐Suppressed Carbon Layers of Hard Carbon

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Native minerals boost the performance of coal-derived hard carbon at low pyrolysis temperatures

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Urea-formaldehyde crosslinking unlocking coal tar pitch-derived hard carbon anodes toward sodium-ion batteries

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Uncovering the Salt‐Controlled Porosity Regulation in Coal‐Derived Hard Carbons for Sodium Energy Storage

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Oxygen concentration-regulated etching in pitch-derived hard carbon for sodium-ion storage

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Non-graphitic carbon with controllable microstructure prepared from lignite based on air-oxidation for high-performance sodium-ion battery anode

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Enhancing the sodium storage performance of hard carbon by constructing thin carbon coatings via esterification reactions

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Coal Tar Pitch‐Based Porous Carbon: Synthetic Strategies and Their Applications in Energy Storage

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Crosslinking-mediated reconfiguration of the carbonization pathway: Enhancing the sodium storage performance of pitch-derived hard carbon

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Coal tar pitch-derived porous carbon with in-situ cobalt loading catalyzes the growth of carbon nanotubes as an anode to enhance lithium storage performance

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Highways Construction in Amorphous Carbon Anode Enables 10C Fast‐Charging Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Programmable Steric‐Enhanced Dual‐Crosslinking Preoxidation Unlocks Closed‐Pore Dominated Sodium Storage in Pitch‐Derived Carbon Anodes

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Constructing rough-walled closed pore structure via in-situ gas etching enables ultrahigh-rate performance of hard carbon anode

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Boosting Sodium Storage in Pitch-Derived Hard Carbon via MgO Catalytic Preoxidation

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Enhancing Specific Capacity of Hard Carbon through Optimized Liquid-Phase CrossLinking and Solid-Phase Oxidation Strategy

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Pitch‐derived Soft and Hard Carbon Materials for Practical Sodium‐ion Batteries

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Carboxyl‐Guided Ultrafine Zinc‐Acetate Templating Enables Closed‐Pore Engineering in Coal‐Derived Hard Carbon Anodes for High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Batteries

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Synthesis of inverse opal-structured pitch-derived carbon with high sodium storage properties

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