The paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry systematically summarizes the research progress and innovative strategies for improving the performance of NaₓTMO₂ cathode materials through interface regulation engineering in recent years. This work reveals the enhancement mechanisms of interface engineering, such as inorganic/organic coatings, heterogeneous interface phase designing, and surface doping. The phase evolution behaviors, ion-transfer kinetics, and electrochemical properties of NaₓTMO₂ resulted from interfacial modulations are concluded in depth.

Urea is a fundamental industrial chemical and may have played a central role in the origin of life.

ETH researchers have discovered a new reaction: the spontaneous formation of urea on aqueous surfaces from carbon dioxide (CO₂) and ammonia (NH₃).

Its formation does not require catalysts, pressure or heat, illustrating how urea may have accumulated on Early Earth.

The reaction also has the potential for sustainable and low-energy urea synthesis.

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital unveiled a tool to capture protein-water networks and their contribution to drug-binding sites.