Nano-Space Confinement Drives Rational Closed Pore Design in Hard Carbons for High-Capacity and High-Rate Sodium Storage
Run Ren, Ling Zhang, Jianhua Zhu, Yunfeng Chao, Junlin Guo, Yijun Cao, Xiaobo Ji, Xinwei Cui · 2026
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Run Ren and co-authors report a new design for hard carbon used in sodium batteries. Their 2026 paper deals with closed pores, tiny sealed spaces inside the carbon. The team says tight spaces help small clusters of sodium form inside these pores. That process is tied to how much charge the material can hold.
A new stage was found near the end of the sloped part of storage. Spaces of 0.4 to 0.6 nanometers help strip fluid from sodium ions and speed their move. The built carbon stored 500 units of charge per gram at a low rate. At a much higher rate it still held 344. The work links pore design to both capacity and speed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Run Ren, Ling Zhang, Jianhua Zhu, Yunfeng Chao, Junlin Guo, Yijun Cao, Xiaobo Ji, Xinwei Cui |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |