Xiaobo Ji, Associate Dean; Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Central South University. He received a Ph.D. from Oxford University and later did post-doctoral research at MIT. His main research fields include new energy materials and devices and advanced energy storage technology. He has published more than 280 SCI papers in international journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, and has been cited more than 16,000 times, with an H index of 68. 52 Chinese invention patents have been authorized to him.

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Overview
1.2 The birth and development of sodium-ion batteries

2 CHARACTERISTIC OF SODIUM ION BATTERIES
2.1 Basic Features
2.2 Working Principle
2.3 Concepts and Equations
2.4 Structural Composition

3 CATHODE MATERIALS OF SIBS
3.1 Polyanion Cathode
3.2 Oxide Cathode
3.3 Prussian Blue and their Analogues
3.4 Perovskite Transition Metal Fluorides
3.5 Organic Cathode

4 ANODE MATERIALS OF SODIUM ION BATTERIES
4.1 Carbon-based Anode
4.2 Titanium-based Anode
4.3 Conversion Anode
4.4 Metal/Alloy Anode

5 ELECTROLYTE, SEPARATOR, BINDER AND OTHER DEVICES OF SODIUM ION BATTERIES
5.1 Organic Liquid Electrolytes
5.2 Solid State Electrolytes
5.3 Separator
5.4 Binder
5.5 Conductive Agent
5.6 Current Collector

6 ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES AND THEORETICAL CALCULATION
6.1 Imaging and Microscopy
6.2 Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray Diffraction Technique
6.3 Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Technique
6.4 Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
6.5 Electrochemical Test Techniques
6.6 Other Characterization Techniques
6.7 Theoretical Calculation

7 PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF SIBS
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Commercial Sodium Battery
7.3 Design and Manufacture Process of SIBs
7.4 Presodiation Techniques
7.5 Performances Test and Failure Analysis
7.6 Commercial Application and Future Perspectives