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The conventional strategies for obtaining S/N-codoped carbon materials suffer from a series of problems caused by their complicated experimental procedures. Here, S,N-codoped carbon nanosheets were firstly prepared by a solvent-free one-pot method, displaying an ultra-thin sheet-like structure, a tunable interlayer distance ranging from 0.37 nm to 0.41 nm, and a large surface area up to 809 m2 g−1. When they were used as an anode for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), an outstanding sodium-ion storage performance of 380 mA h g−1 was acquired at 100 mA g−1, which can be attributed to the expanded interlayer distance caused by the introduction of the large covalent radius-sulfur. The initial coulombic efficiency improved to 60.9%, which may benefit from N-doping. Most importantly, an excellent rate capability of ∼178 mA h g−1 was observed at a current density of 5 A g−1 after 5000 cycles, which is among …