Inside Back Cover: Reinventing the High-rate Energy Storage of Hard Carbon: the Order-degree Governs the Trade-off of Desolvation–Solid Electrolyte Interphase at Interfaces (Angew. Chem. 17/2025)

Abstract

A trade-off (represented by the seesaw in the cover picture) between solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and desolvation is linked to the structural feature of hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries, as demonstrated by Wei Zhang and co-workers in their Research Article (e202425507). In a more disordered state, desolvation and the SEI work in concert. The desolvation process is progressively enhanced with increasing structural ordering.