The aqueous zinc metal batteries (AZMBs) are famous for high-safety and high-energy-density, but limited by severe challenges around the Helmholtz plane layer such as the strong ion–dipole interactions between Zn²⁺ and H₂O, resulting in slow desolvation processes and limited transport kinetics as well as corresponding higher barriers. To reconstruct the ion–dipole surroundings, the interface chemistry of employing a high permanent dipole moment of L-Carnosine (L-CN) has been proposed, weakening the interactions between Zn²⁺ and H₂O to realize a crowded Zn²⁺-conductive structure, accelerating the desolvation kinetics. As revealed, the strong affinity between L-CN and Zn²⁺ enables the L-CN molecules to repulse H₂O, reconfiguring the inner Helmholtz plane layer, thereby inhibiting the active water molecular to form hydrogen evolution reactions. Consequently, the Zn//Zn symmetric cells with Helmholtz plane modulation achieve a long lifespan up to 7000 h, a high Coulombic efficiency of 99.72%, and a high stabilization at high depth of discharge (85.4%). The assembled Zn//V₂O_5−x full cell with optimal electrolyte delivers the capacity of 289 mAh g⁻¹ after 500 cycles at 1 A g⁻¹ under an N/P ratio of 3.98. Impressively, the large-scale pouch cell with optimal electrolyte stabilizes for 200 cycles, offering the bright future of reconstructing Helmholtz plane for achieving high-performance AZMBs.

A synergistic paradigm to drive reactive chlorine chemistry inside porphyrinic zirconium frameworks is provided, and a avenue to merge catalytic, photothermal, and oxidative modes for enhanced antibacterial, detoxifying, and antitumor activities is opened.

A new light-controlled organic semiconductor developed at Osaka Metropolitan University shows charge-transport performance comparable to leading organic semiconductor materials, offering promise for future “flexible” electronics.

Quantum computing offers a promising pathway for accelerating large-scale scientific simulations, but applying it to computational fluid dynamics remains difficult. A new quantum TLFS-LBM framework reported in the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cja.2026.104176) introduces a fractional-step correction, a coordinate-based streaming matrix, and a multi-circuit strategy to enable practical incompressible-flow simulations on non-uniform meshes and complex boundaries while reducing quantum-circuit resource demands.

The high-entropy ferroelectric fillers/polymer nanocomposites achieve ultra-high U_dis values of 8.7 J cm^-3 at 150 °C and 5.9 J cm^-3 at 200 °C, while maintaining an η of over 90%.