“…To address these issues, many strategies have been proposed, such as designing new nanostructures (e.g., Sb nanotubes, [39] antimonene, [40,41] and nanoporous Sb [42][43][44] ), forming Sb-based intermetallics (e.g., SbSn, [45][46][47][48] SbNi, [49,50] and SbBi [51,52] ) and constructing protective layers (e.g., TiO 2 , [53][54][55] Co(OH) 2 , [56] and carbon [57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69] ). Among these approaches, constructing a protective layer has been regarded as the most effective way to solve the volume expansion problems.…”