Electronic-Structure Engineering Coordinates Na Nucleation Thermodynamics and Deposition Kinetics for Stable Sodium Metal Batteries.
Sodium metal batteries are limited by uncontrolled Na nucleation and nonuniform deposition, which originate from insufficient interfacial sodiophilicity and heterogeneous ion/electric-field transport. Herein, we design a flexible lotus-root-like hierarchical porous carbon nanofiber framework embedded with ultrafine van...