High capacity Na-storage and superior cyclability of nanocomposite Sb/C anode for Na-ion batteries.

TL;DR: Current research on materials is summarized and discussed and future directions for SIBs are proposed to provide important insights into scientific and practical issues in the development of S IBs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a variety of electrode materials including cathodes and anodes as well as electrolytes for room-temperature stationary sodium-ion batteries are briefly reviewed and compared the difference in storage behavior between Na and Li in their analogous electrodes and summarize the sodium storage mechanisms in available electrode materials.

TL;DR: The synthesis and electrochemical and mechanical performance of layered free-standing papers composed of acid-exfoliated few-layer molybdenum disulfide and reduced graphene oxide flakes for use as a self-standing flexible electrode in sodium-ion batteries are studied.

TL;DR: Rapid progress has been made in NIB cathode materials, where layered metal oxides and polyanionic compounds exhibit encouraging results, and electrochemical intercalation of Na ions into reduced graphene oxide is applied for fabricating transparent conductors, demonstrating the great feasibility of Na ion interCalation for optical applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 3-volt secondary Na-ion battery possessing environmental and cost friendliness, Na+-shuttlecock hard-carbon/NaNi0.5Mn 0.5O2 cell, demonstrates steady cycling performance as next generation secondary batteries and an alternative to Li-ion batteries.

TL;DR: Electrochemical processes are confirmed to be an accurate route to precisely investigate in a continuous way such a complex system and provide a new way to synthesize materials with a very narrow existence range.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the viability of Na-ion negative electrode materials based on Na alloys or hard carbons in terms of volumetric energy density and found that due to the increased size of the Na atom compared to the Li atom, Na-alloys would lead to negative electrode material with roughly half the energy density of their Li analogs.

TL;DR: Good capacity and charge-discharge stability are observed for full cell experiments using a pyrolyzed carbon as the anode, therefore demonstrating the potential of these materials for sodium-ion batteries for large scale energy storage.