Summary

In a new study published in Chemical Science , researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Chemistry have used machine learning simulations to trace how a common polymer transforms into hard carbon, revealing the atomic-scale processes that give this technologically important material its disordered structure. Hard carbon is an important anode material for sodium-ion batteries , which are attracting interest as economically viable alternatives to conventional lithium-ion batteries, owing to the high natural abundance and low cost of sodium.

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