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Poor intrinsic conductivity and the presence of irreversible lithiation phase affect the electrochemical performance of silicon oxycarbide anode materials. Even though it can be improved by increasing free carbon content or composition, scarification of reversible capacity and initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) remain as challenge. Here, polycarbosilane (PCS) with alternating distribution of silicon and carbon atoms is employed as precursor of SiOC ceramics. Air oxidation cross‐linking is used to regulate the content of oxygen and carbon elements in PCS at atom level, so as to explore a solution to improve the intrinsic conductivity and reversible lithium phase content of SiOC ceramics. This strategy provides extremely excellent rate capability, areal/volumetric capacity, and ICE. This is also the first concept for feasible precursor structure design to control the SiOC glass phase and regulate the growth of C nanoribbon that can improve the intrinsic conductivity and reversible capacity of SiOC ceramic anode materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, porous core‐shell structured Co2Si@SiC/C/SiOC/SiO2/Co3O4 nanoparticles were fabricated by a polymer‐derived ceramic approach. The in situ formation of mesopores on the shell, microstructural, and phase evolution of resulting nanoparticles were investigated in detail. The obtained nanoparticles‐paraffin composites possess a very low minimum reflection coefficient (RCmin) −60.9 dB, broad effective absorption bandwidth 3.50 GHz in the X‐band and 15.5 GHz in the whole frequency range (from 2.5 to 18 GHz). The results indicate outstanding electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbing performance among all the reported cobalt‐based nanomaterials, due to the reasons as follows: (a) The unique core‐shell structure as well as complex phase composition of SiC/C/SiOC/SiO2/Co3O4 in the shell, result in a large number of heterogeneous interfaces in the nanoparticles; (b) Nanoparticles have both dielectric and magnetic loss; (c) Mesopores in the shell prolong the propagation path of EMW, thereby increasing the absorption/reflection ratio of EMWs. Thanks to the material structure design, the resulting core‐shell structured cobalt‐containing ceramic nanoparticles have great potential for thin and high‐performance EMW absorbing materials applied in harsh environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]