Rational Design of Porous Carbon Hosts for Silicon/Carbon Anodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries: Controlled Synthesis, Silicon Incorporation, Carbon Coating, and Electrochemical Applications

This review places porous carbon hosts at the center of analysis for Si/C anodes. It summarizes hard templating, soft templating, combined templating, template-free synthesis, and etching strategies, with emphasis on pore-forming mechanisms and structural regulation. It further discusses silicon incorporation and carbon coating strategies in relation to interfacial stability, electronic transport, and volume-expansion accommodation .