“…Recently, carbon-based nanomaterials have been widely developed and been used in many fields such as energy storage and conversion, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, gas, and water treatment systems and biomedicine (Liu et al, 2017a(Liu et al, ,b, 2018Yang et al, 2018;Liu Y. Q. et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2019b,c;Zhang and Lou, 2019;Guo et al, 2020;Wu C. et al, 2020;Yuan et al, 2020a,c,d). Among various carbon nanomaterials, hollow carbon nanostructures (HCNs) (Figure 1) have attracted considerable interests due to their high thermal stability, strong electron transport ability, large specific surface area, plentiful exposed active sites, and flexible shape and structure (Wen et al, 2007;Guo et al, 2019;Chen et al, 2020;Gao et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Yuan et al, 2020b). A large number of studies have shown that HCNs exhibit excellent performance for energy, catalysis, electronics, biomedical, and so on in terms of their unique hollow structures.…”