etc., is essentially crucial to help combat these hazards and build a sustainable society. Among them, rechargeable battery has been regarded as a key technology. In the past decade, we have witnessed that the prevailing lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) made our society more portable, intelligent, and cleaner. [17][18][19] Nevertheless, the limited lithium resources and rising cost hinder their applications in the long run, especially in the field of large-scale stationary energy storage for renewable energy resources (e.g., solar, tide, and wind power). Thus, it is a huge stimulus for researchers to explore more sustainable rechargeable battery systems, which are expected to involve abundant and nontoxic metals to reduce the cost and impacts on environment.Diversified rechargeable batteries such as, the monovalent sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), [20][21][22][23][24] potassium-ion batteries (PIBs), [25][26][27] bivalent zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs), [28][29][30][31] magnesium-ion batteries (MIBs), [32][33][34][35] calcium-ion batteries (CIBs), [36][37][38][39] and trivalent aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs), [40][41][42] have emerged and shown great energy storage promise. As depicted in Figure 1a, those nonlithium metals are much more abundant than Li, especially Al, Ca, Na, K, and Mg, all of which rank the top-8 abundant elements in earth crust. For SIBs and PIBs, since Al would not form alloys with Na and K, Al foil can be used as anode collector, which further lowers the prices of SIBs and PIBs. On the other hand, the higher standard potential of Na/Na + (−2.71 V vs standard hydrogen electrode, SHE) and K/K + (−2.93 V) and their heavier atomic weights make energy densities of SIBs and PIBs intrinsically lower than that of LIBs. For multivalent-ion batteries, the multielectron transfer enables their volumetric capacities (e.g., 5857 and 8056 mA h cm −3 for Zn and Al, respectively) higher than that of Li (2042 mA h cm −3 ). [43,44] Additionally, the small cation radius of Zn 2+ (0.74 Å), Mg 2+ (0.72 Å), and Al 3+ (0.54 Å) indicate that many intercalation electrode materials typical in LIBs may be also potential hosts for reversible intercalation of these multivalent ions. Combining all the above merits, one can anticipate that these emerging rechargeable batteries would be considered as promising alternatives to LIBs.In quest of safe, cost-effective, and high-performance rechargeable batteries, two technical routes have been
