doi:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c01040engAntorán, D.Alvira, D.Peker, M. E.Malón, H.Irusta, S.Sebastián, V.Manyà, J. J.Waste hemp hurd as a sustainable precursor for affordable and high-rate hard carbon-based anodes in sodium-ion batteriesART-2023-134415The present study reports the promising potential of waste hemp-hurd-derived carbons as anodes in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Carbons were produced through an easily scalable process consisting of pyrolysis of raw biomass at 500 °C followed by mild chemical activation of the resulting char through wet impregnation with K2CO3 and subsequent heating of the solid phase (after filtration and drying) up to 700 or 800 °C under nitrogen. The best electrochemical performance was observed for the hard carbon activated at a char-K2CO3 mass ratio of 1:4 and heated up to 800 °C, which exhibited an excellent initial coulombic efficiency (73%) and achieved reversible charge capacities of 267 and 79 mAh g–1 at 0.03 and 1 A g–1, respectively. This material also exhibited an impressive cyclic stability and rate capability, with a capacity retention of 96% after 300 cycles at a current density of 2 A g–1. This more than satisfactory performance could be related to the textural and structural features of the hard carbon, which include moderate interconnected microporosity (with pore sizes below 1 nm), an appropriate concentration of defects in the carbon structure, relatively large interplanar distances, and a certain number of closed pores.2023http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/12697810.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c01040http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/126978oai:zaguan.unizar.es:126978info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2019-107737RB-I00info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FEDER/T22-20REnergy and Fuels 37, 13 (2023), 9650-9661byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess