Interfacial‐Catalysis‐Enabled Layered and Inorganic‐Rich SEI on Hard Carbon Anodes in Ester Electrolytes for Sodium‐Ion Batteries (Adv. Mater. 29/2023)

Sodium-Ion Batteries In article number 2300002, Yu Li, Chuan Wu, Ying Bai, and co-workers develop an efficient strategy to reconstruct the surface functionality of hard carbons in situ, which can controllably catalyze preferential salt decomposition form inorganic-rich layered solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). The structurally stable ion-conductive SEI enables advanced carbon anodes with ultrahigh initial Coulombic efficiency long cycling life for sodium-ion batteries.