Recently, advanced materials have attracted considerable interest owing to their possible applications in different fields such as in catalysts, supercapacitors, capacitors, batteries and other energy storage systems [1,2,3]. Many of the 21st century’s advancing technologies, e.g., electric vehicles (and hybrids), portable electronic devices, and renewable energy systems, drive the demand for high-performance energy storage systems [4]. The increasing demand for processable, lightweight, flexible energy storage materials has motivated researchers from both academia and industry to develop and manufacture new materials that offer excellent properties depending on the targeted applications, including environmental applications [5,6]. Building upon the different potential of the advanced materials for several applications, this Special Issue has been aimed at presenting the current state-of-the-art in new advanced materials to address the various challenging issues researchers have been confronted with in this field for many applications, especially for energy storage. In this issue, we have featured 12 papers that include one excellent review “Sustainable Biomass Activated Carbons as Electrodes for Battery and Supercapacitors—A Mini-Review” and one communication article. In this Special Issue, we have covered the most recent advances that address novel and state-of-the-art topics from active researchers in innovative advanced materials and hybrid materials, concerning not only their synthesis, preparation and characterisation, but especially focusing on the applications of such materials with outstanding performances. This Special Issue has targeted readers from different disciplines.
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