Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising candidates for the replacement of lithium-ion (LIBs) because sodium’s abundant reserves and lower cost sodium compared to lithium. This is a topic interest developing novel anodes with high storage capacity. Owing their low cost, stability, conductivity, carbon-based materials have been studied extensively. However, sp2-C based carbon low-rate capacitie...

Macrocyclic compounds like crown ethers, calixarenes, etc. are well explored in the literature as receptors for alkali metal ions. In most of these studies, the size of the macrocyclic cavity has evolved as the prominent determining criterion for the selective binding of various ions. However, approaches to systematically tailor the ion transport properties via the interplay of topological as w...