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Received — 9 July 2026 ⏭ SCI-TECH

Air-permeable hydrogels through viscoelastic phase separation of aerogels

✇Nature
By: Xiao-Yun Yan · Shucong Li · Won Jun Song · Runze Li · Aarosh Dahal · Bastien F. G. Aymon · Haodong Hu · Deep K. Malu · Gabriella E. Carreira · Jingjing Wu · Gengxi Lu · Bolei Deng · Jiayi Liu · Siqin Yu · Shu Wang · Eric Lu · Hyunhee Lee · Hui Xu · Anqi Chen · Yuxing Yao · James H. Zhang · Chen Gong · Yiyuan Sun · Jeong-Yun Sun · David A. Weitz · Casey O’Brien · Yuhang Hu · Zachary P. Smith · Aditya Kumar · Xuanhe Zhao
8 July 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10712-3

Viscoelastic phase separation is used to fabricate non-collapsible, air-rich networks in high-water-content hydrogels containing silica aerogel beads, allowing air to permeate through the material and enabling a tenfold increase in oxygen permeability over pristine hydrogels.
Received — 31 May 2026 ⏭ SCI-TECH

Lattice reconstruction strategy for fast-charging plateau-type hard carbon anodes in ultra-long-life sodium-ion batteries

✇RSC - Energy Environment
By: Feng Wang · Lian Chen · Fan Li · Yongben Zheng · Jiaqi Wei · Caozheng Diao · Ihor Radchenko · Jie Shi · Linwei Li · Jingshu Wang · Zhengshuai Bai · Yanyan Zhang · Oleksandr I. Malyi · Xiaodong Chen · Yuxin Tang
22 April 2026 at 00:00

Energy Environ. Sci., 2026, 19,3640-3652
DOI: 10.1039/D6EE00708B, Paper
Feng Wang, Lian Chen, Fan Li, Yongben Zheng, Jiaqi Wei, Caozheng Diao, Ihor Radchenko, Jie Shi, Linwei Li, Jingshu Wang, Zhengshuai Bai, Yanyan Zhang, Oleksandr I. Malyi, Xiaodong Chen, Yuxin Tang
By decoupling defect passivation and graphitization, lattice reconstruction of hard carbon yields large interlayer spacing, small crystallites, and an inorganic-rich SEI, enabling superior fast-charging in ultra-long-life sodium-ion batteries.
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