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Received — 16 July 2026 ⏭

Programming fracture resistance in metamaterials via elastic instabilities

✇Nature
By: Yujia Wang · Yangchengyi Liu · Kunlin Wu · Xuan Zhang · Hanzheng Xing · Songyan Zhang · Changhong Linghu · Yifan Wang · Xiaoyan Li · Huajian Gao
15 July 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10804-0

Elastic instabilities in mechanical metamaterials can be harnessed to programme fracture behaviour, transforming instability from a failure mechanism into a design principle that increases fracture energy by up to tenfold.
Received — 31 May 2026 ⏭

A hydroxylated zwitterion enables dual-modal synergy for stable zinc–iodine batteries

✇RSC - Energy Environment
By: Shengchao Chai · Yuxin Zhu · Junpeng Li · Wenxin Xie · Siqi He · Haikun Guo · Yifan Wang · Yizhan Wang · Haolong Li
28 April 2026 at 00:00

Energy Environ. Sci., 2026, 19,3377-3387
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE07709E, Paper
Shengchao Chai, Yuxin Zhu, Junpeng Li, Wenxin Xie, Siqi He, Haikun Guo, Yifan Wang, Yizhan Wang, Haolong Li
A hydroxylated zwitterion achieves dual interfacial control in Zn–I2 batteries via anion–OH (uniform Zn) and cation–OH (polyiodide capture) pairs, enabling >8000 h Zn||Zn cycling and >50 000 full-cell cycles.
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