Advanced Carbon-Based Materials for Sodium-Ion and Potassium-Ion Batteries and Hybrid Capacitors
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon materials; carbon-based composites; porous carbons; energy storage; electrochemistry; batteries; supercapacitors; hybrid capacitors
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Interests: carbon; composite; nanomaterial; electrochemistry; energy storage; hybrid capacitor; battery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite researchers and our colleagues to contribute to the upcoming Special Issue, “Advanced Carbon-Based Materials for Sodium-ion and Potassium-ion Batteries and Hybrid Capacitors,” in Materials (MDPI). As the global demand for sustainable and resource-abundant energy storage technologies accelerates, sodium-ion and potassium-ion systems are gaining remarkable attention as promising alternatives to lithium-based devices. In this context, carbon materials—ranging from hard carbons and disordered carbons to graphene derivatives and hierarchical porous architectures—are emerging as key enablers for high-efficiency electrochemical energy storage.
This Special Issue aims to gather cutting-edge research focused on material design, ion-storage mechanisms, electrode engineering, interfacial optimization, and device-level innovation. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and communications covering synthesis strategies, advanced characterization, performance enhancement, and practical implementation of carbon-based electrodes for Na-ion, K-ion, and hybrid capacitor systems.
We warmly invite you to submit your latest findings and contribute to a comprehensive collection that will help to shape the next generation of sustainable electrochemical energy storage technologies.
Dr. Noel Díez
Dr. Raúl Gimeno Ferrero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon materials
- electrochemistry
- energy storage
- Na-ion battery
- potassium-ion
- hybrid capacitor
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