Provided is a
lithium or
sodium metal battery having an
anode, a
cathode, and a porous separator and / or an
electrolyte, wherein the
anode contains an integral 3D
graphene-carbon
hybrid foam composed of multiple pores, pore walls, and a
lithium-attracting
metal residing in the pores; wherein the
metal is selected from Au, Ag, Mg, Zn, Ti, Na, K, Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Sn, V, Cr, or an
alloy thereof and is in an amount of 0.1% to 50% of the total
hybrid foam weight or volume, and the pore walls contain single-layer or few-layer
graphene sheets chemically bonded by a carbon material having a carbon material-to-
graphene weight ratio from 1 / 200 to 1 / 2, wherein graphene sheets contain a pristine graphene or non-pristine graphene selected from graphene
oxide, reduced graphene
oxide, graphene
fluoride, graphene
chloride, graphene
bromide, graphene
iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene,
doped graphene, chemically
functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof.