Practical Cathodes for Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Who Will Take The Crown?

Abstract In recent decades, sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) have received increasing attention because they offer cost and safety advantages and avoid the challenges related to limited lithium/cobalt/nickel resources and environmental pollution. Because the sodium storage performance and production cost of SIBs are dominated by the cathode performance, developing cathode materials with large‐scale production capacity is the key to achieving commercial applications of SIBs. Therefore, developing host materials with high energy density, long cycling life, low production cost, and high chemical/environmental stability is crucial for implementing advanced SIBs. Among the developed cathode materials for SIBs, O3‐type…