“…However, it often suffers the loss of capacity upon the cycling due to drastic volume changes during the formation of lithium zinc alloys [6][7][8]. Therefore, a lot of effort has been devoted to overcome these problems; correspondingly, many methods have been developed, such as (i) preparing ordered nanostructured materials [2,9]; (ii) incorporating with Ni 3 ZnC 0.7 [10]; (iii) coating with Ni, C, and CoO-C layers [6,11,12]; and (iv) doping with Mg [13]. These techniques enhance the conductivity, facilitate the lithiation/delithiation process, or buffer the volume changes.…”