“…Therefore, the carbon coating offers a unique solution that combines all of the desired advantages. Several carbonaceous materials are reported in the literature that include camphoric carbon, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, carbon nanotubes, heteroatom-doped carbons, sucrose-derived hard carbons, and conductive polymers such as polythiophene, polyimide, polyacrylonitrile, PANI, PEDOT, and so forth. – The surface protection and enhancement in electronic conductivity are successfully achieved by applying such coatings. However, the surface heterogeneity, doped heteroatoms, and functional groups catalyze the electrolyte decomposition .…”