“…[12][13][14][20][21][22] It is widely known that CMSs are synthesized through carbonization of carbon precursors with spherical morphology, including glucose, starch, phenolic resin and other polymers. [14,21,23,24] Tremendous efforts have been exerted to develop advanced strategies for preparation of spherical carbon precursors, and these strategies can be mainly divided into five categories: hydrothermal polymerization, [21,23,25,26] oxidation/microemulsion polymerization, [12,14,27] molecule self-assembly, [20] coating polymerization on spherical templates [28] and spray drying. [29][30][31][32] However, as for the former four methods, highpressure equipment, expensive agent and complicated process may limit their large-scale application in practice.…”