As the energy crisis turning out to be more and more serious, an interest in renewable energy sources is also increasing. [3] Researchers around the world have been devoting themselves to developing a high-performance electric energy storage material [4] to meet the demand for ecofriendly, sustainable, and low-cost energy. Among several kinds of electrical energy storage systems, lithiumion batteries have been developed as largescale energy storage units [5] and energy storage medium in electric vehicles, [6] smart grids, and other clean energy systems such as solar and wind since 1990s. [7] The lithium ion battery is identified as one of the ideal candidates to meet these requirements due to its desired energy density, superior voltage, and light weight. [8] However, extensive application of lithium ion batteries faces challenges related to the availability and cost of lithium. Scientists have their eyes on making sodium ion batteries as an alternative, because sodium is more abundant than lithium. Except that, it is also cheaper and easy to recover. [9] So nowadays, studying new kinds of electrode materials for lithium ion batteries and sodium ion batteries can be a rewarding work.During the last few decades, LiFePO 4 has attracted much attention, which was reported as a positive electrode for rechargeable lithium ion batteries first by Good-enough and co-workers in 1990s. [10] Nowadays, thousands of research publications have been authored on LiFePO 4 , [11] such as graphene-encapsulated LiFePO 4 composite, [12] pure LiFePO 4 , and LiFePO 4 /C, [13] 3D porous LiFePO 4 , [14] olivine LiFePO 4 , [15] mesoporous carboncoated LiFePO 4 , [16] graphene-modified LiFePO 4 , [17] LiFePO 4 / reduced graphene oxide hybrid, [18] and so on. LiFePO 4 owns favorable kinetics of the lithium intercalation/deintercalation process [19,20] and its nanocrystal size and shape can be easily controlled, [21] especially when it is complexed with carbon-based materials or other elements, the electrochemical properties of the composite material can be greatly improved. [22,23] It also has advantages of atop safety, environmental friendliness, affordability, as well as its comparatively reasonable electrochemical performance. [24][25][26][27] Until now, many researchers have examined LiFePO 4 as next generation cathode material. [28] Since FePO 4 also shows intrinsically poor ionic and electrical conductivity, small tap density which influences its electrochemical performance, [29] LiFePO 4 will not be further discussed in this article.High-performance electric energy storage material has recently developed due to the attention for sustainable development. As ecofriendly energy storage device, lithium ion batteries and sodium ion batteries deserve more concern today. FePO 4 and NaFePO 4 share similar advantages such as easy preparation, abundant, and inexpensive, so they can be ideal materials for lithium/sodium ion batteries. This review is focused on recent progresses in nanostructured FePO 4 /NaFePO 4 -based nanomaterial as cathode ma...