Cyberattack on French postal service causes disruption during Christmas rush

A cyberattack on the French national post office has disrupted mail and parcel delivery and shut down its online services days before Christmas. Customers of the group’s banking arm are also currently unable to access their online banking app.


Issued on: 23/12/2025 - RFI

An office of France's national postal service, La Poste, in Paris. The group has been the target of a cyberattack that has knocked out its website and delayed parcel delivery, days before Christmas. © Masha Macpherson/AP

La Poste was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DdosS) attack on Monday, which overwhelmed its servers with targeted requests so that they become inaccessible.

The group said that this has had no impact on customer data, but it has “rendered its online services inaccessible”, disrupting package delivery days before Christmas, the busiest time of the year for La Poste.

Sending letters and greeting cards is still possible, but anything requiring tracking or access to the computer systems is not.

Customers of La Banque Postale can no longer access their online banking application, although “card payments on in-store payment terminals and transfers via WERO remain available”.

Online payments are still possible using SMS authentication, and banking transactions can be carried out at post offices, as well as cash withdrawals from ATMs.

"Our teams are mobilised to resolve the situation quickly,” the bank said in messages posted on social networks.

Other attacks

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

It comes a week after a group of hackers targeted the email servers of the French interior ministry, compromising files containing criminal records .

A known hacker has been detained in connection to the attack, which Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said was the result of “carelessness” and poor “digital hygiene” within the ministry.

Last week, prosecutors said the counter-intelligence agency was investigating a suspected cyberattack involving software that allegedly would have allowed remote control of a ferry operating between France, Italy and North Africa.

Nuñez strongly suggested that Russia was involved, stating that “foreign interference very often comes from the same country”, although no official attribution has been made.

France and other European countries that support Ukraine have accused Russia of waging a hybrid war through cyberattacks, disinformation, sabotage and other hostile actions.

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Trump-backed Nasry Asfura declared winner of Honduras presidency

Tegucigalpa (AFP) – Nasry Asfura, a conservative businessman backed by US President Donald Trump, was declared winner of the Honduran presidential vote Wednesday, weeks after a razor-thin election marred by delays and allegations of fraud.


Issued on: 24/12/2025 -RFI

Honduran presidential candidate Nasry Asfura has been declared winner in a razor tight election where he had US President Donald Trump's support © Orlando SIERRA / AFP

Asfura, a 67-year-old son of Palestinian immigrants, defeated fellow conservative TV personality Salvador Nasralla, who had demanded a full recount due to alleged irregularities.

The plenary session of the national electoral council CNE "declares Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah elected for a four-year term," the council's president Ana Paola Hall said.

"Honduras: I'm ready to govern, I won't let you down," Asfura posted to X after the win was declared, thanking election officials for validating his victory.

Asfura prevailed with just 40.1 percent of the vote, narrowly beating Nasralla at 39.5 percent, according to the official results.

Rixi Moncada, a lawyer from the leftist Libre Party, which currently runs the government, trailed in third with 19.2 percent.

Within minutes of the result declaration, the United States welcomed the election of Asfura, saying it would help stop illegal immigration.

"We look forward to working with his incoming administration to advance our bilateral and regional security cooperation, end illegal immigration to the United States, and strengthen the economic ties between our two countries," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.

Following the lengthy counting process in the Central American country's election, Rubio called on all sides to "respect the confirmed results so that Honduran authorities may swiftly ensure a peaceful transition of authority."

Asfura's new term begins on January 27.

Tensions

The result was announced more than three weeks after the November 30 vote. The wait for the results has caused tensions among Hondurans, and the sluggish count has been accompanied by claims of irregularities and voter fraud.

Honduras president-elect Nasry Asfura, seen here after voting in Tegucigalpa on November 30, 2025, was declared the winner following a weeks-long recount process that raised tensions and triggered claims of fraud © Johny MAGALLANES / AFP/File

The recount of nearly 2,800 tally sheets with suspected inconsistencies was pored over by hundreds of electoral staff and political delegates to determine the winner.

The CNE had had until December 30 to declare a winner.

Last week, thousands of supporters of the leftist Libre Party of outgoing President Xiomara Castro staged a demonstration in the capital Tegucigalpa to protest what they consider "fraud" in the vote.

On the eve of the election, Trump in a surprise move pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, a member of Asfura's party who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking.

Extradited by Honduras to face justice in the United States, Hernandez insists he had been set up by the previous administration of US president Joe Biden because of his conservative policies.

The pardon was widely seen as contradicting Trump's crackdown on alleged drug traffickers in Latin America.

Trump also endorsed Asfura, saying they could "work together to fight the narcocommunists," and warned "there will be hell to pay" if the conservative candidate's razor-thin lead was overturned in the count.

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'At your service!' Nasry Asfura becomes Honduran president-elect

Tegucigalpa (AFP) – It took longer than expected, but Nasry Asfura has gone from businessman to mayor to president-elect of Honduras, carrying the blessing of US President Donald Trump who has described him as a "friend of freedom."


Issued on: 24/12/2025 - RFI
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Honduras president-elect Nasry Asfura's business and political career has been clouded by allegations of graft, though he has never been prosecuted © Marvin RECINOS / AFP

Capping a career shadowed by corruption claims, but never prosecuted, the 67-year-old conservative ascended to the Central American country's top job on his second attempt, having lost out to leftist Xiomara Castro in 2021.

More than three weeks after the election, Asfura held his razor-thin edge and was declared the winner Wednesday over fellow conservative Salvador Nasralla, a 72-year-old TV star, by the plenary session of the national electoral council.

Asfura rose to the top as the head of the right-wing National Party (PN), which was tainted by the US imprisonment of a former leader, Juan Orlando Hernandez, for drug trafficking.

Hernandez, however, walked out of prison a free man in early December after receiving a pardon from Trump, who embraced Asfura as an ally in the fight against "narcocommunists."

"The only real friend of freedom in Honduras is Tito Asfura," Trump had written on Truth Social, referring to the politician by his nickname.

He added: "Tito and I can work together to fight the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the people of Honduras" -- one of Latin America's most impoverished and violent countries.

Asfura returned the PN to power, leaving the ruling leftist party out in the cold in a region where voters tired of hardship and crime have been punishing incumbent parties.
'Nothing to hide'

Asfura, a former two-time mayor of the capital Tegucigalpa, ran a campaign with promises to "save democracy" from the left, which the Latin American right associates with authoritarian regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

He claims to lead a "renewed" party and has denied links to Hernandez, though after Trump's pardon, he expressed hope it would "bring hope and peace of mind to the family" of the former president.

The son of Palestinian immigrants, Asfura was born on June 8, 1958, in Tegucigalpa.

He studied civil engineering at the National University but dropped out to start what would become one of the country's largest construction companies.

Later, as mayor, he was credited with building bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure to ease congestion in the city of over a million inhabitants.

He was also accused of embezzling municipal funds, but the Supreme Court decided not to send the case to trial.

Asfura was later mentioned in the 2021 "Pandora Papers" list of offshore companies used to evade taxes, but was never charged.

"I owe nothing, I fear nothing. I have nothing to hide," he once asserted.
'Work and more work'

Grey-haired and mustachioed, Asfura is reputed to be a hard worker. He usually wears a light blue shirt, jeans, and dusty boots.

In his speeches, he promises "work and more work" for Hondurans, to develop infrastructure, and to attract investments to generate employment.

Those who know him say he is passionate about music and a man of few words but much action.

He greets supporters who approach him with his trademark phrase: "At your service!"

Asfura has described himself as "allergic" to smartphones, preferring to use a landline, and has not embraced social media campaigning.

He is married to Lissette del Cid, with whom he has three daughters and three grandchildren.

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French scientists turn waste carbon into fuel using new catalyst

French researchers have developed a breakthrough technology that could help tackle climate change whilst creating useful fuels from industrial waste. Dhananjay Khadilkar has this report.


Issued on: 17/12/2025 - RFI

Morning sunlight over Frankfurt’s banking district. The World Meteorological Organisation says record carbon dioxide levels in 2024 signal worsening long-term climate impacts. AP - Michael Probst
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By: Dhananjay Khadilkar

A team at the Collège de France in Paris, led by Professor Marc Fontecave, has created a special catalyst - a material that speeds up chemical reactions - that can convert carbon into alcohols like ethanol and propanol. These alcohols can be used as vehicle fuels or to make plastics and other products.

The process works by first capturing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas warming our planet, from factories or even directly from the air.

Record surge in CO2 puts world on track for more long-term warming

This CO2 is then converted into carbon monoxide, which the new catalyst transforms into useful fuels using electricity. When this electricity comes from renewable sources like wind or solar power, the entire process becomes carbon-neutral.

The catalyst is made from copper, with tiny amounts of silver and gold added to improve its performance. It's particularly good at producing propanol, which is valuable both as a fuel and for making plastics.

The research, conducted in partnership with energy company TotalEnergies, was published in the journal Nature Materials in March 2025

It represents an important step towards creating "e-fuels", synthetic fuels made using renewable electricity, which could help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

Nairobi sounds alarm over recruiters luring Kenyans into Russian war effort

Kenya has pledged to crack down on overseas recruitment networks after hundreds of its citizens were lured to Russia with promises of work, only to be sent to military camps and, in some cases, the front line in Ukraine.


Issued on: 19/12/2025 - RFI

Soldiers at a training ground near Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on 9 November 2025. © AP - Anatolii Lysianskyi

The government announced this week that 18 Kenyans who had been sent to fight on the Ukrainian front had been repatriated from Russia as part of a diplomatic push to assist Kenyans who have found themselves trapped in Russian military camps.

More than 200 Kenyans may have joined the Russian military, including some former members of the country's security forces, Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi said in a briefing last month.

“It is estimated that recruitment networks are still active in both Kenya and Russia,” he warned, adding that Kenya’s embassy in Moscow had documented cases where recruits were injured – some seriously.

Crackdown on recruitment agencies

The government has now promised tighter oversight of recruitment agencies that offer jobs abroad. Mudavadi said all such recruiters must be registered with Kenya’s National Employment Authority, noting that around 600 agencies have already been struck off the approved list.

Anti-trafficking groups have been calling for tougher action. Paul Adoch, director of the NGO Trace Kenya, says the phenomenon is neither new nor limited to combat roles.

“We have been seeing these departures to Russia for three years now,” he told RFI.

Before men were sent to the front lines, he said, young women were being recruited under false pretences to work in factories making military equipment.

The US State Department’s 2025 report on human trafficking cites reports of Kenyan women aged between 18 and 22 who believed they were heading for vocational training, only to end up working in Russian drone factories.

Adoch is calling for comprehensive legislation to regulate migrant labour. A draft law was submitted to parliament last year, but has yet to be debated.

Lured by promises

The Foreign Ministry has received reports of agents fraudulently convincing victims to sign contracts by promising to pay the equivalent of €15,000 for visas, travel and accommodation.

Leaked diplomatic cables exchanged between the ministry and Kenya’s embassy in Moscow, published in the Daily Nation newspaper earlier this week, paint a picture of how recruitment networks operate.

In one case, a man said he thought he had secured a job in meat processing in Russia. Recruited by a Nairobi-based agency, he paid 30,000 Kenyan shillings – less than €200 – to obtain a Russian visa within a week. The entire process was handled through WhatsApp.

On arrival in Moscow, he was taken to a military training camp and later deployed to Ukraine.

While he is among a handful of Kenyans who have been repatriated with the help of the embassy, at least 82 others are believed to remain stranded in Russia.

According to the cables, Kenyan nationals have been sent to camps in Belgorod, Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Istra. Many recruits have no military background and receive less than a week of training before being sent to fight.

Four ended up in hospitals in Moscow, including for fractures and amputations.

Martin Macharia Mburu, a man from north of Nairobi who believed he was going to work as a chauffeur, is believed to be the first Kenyan officially recorded dead in the fighting in Ukraine, according to the Nation's sources. He was reportedly killed at the end of October on the front in Lyman.

African recruitment pool

In September, Kenyan police raided a housing complex outside Nairobi where 21 people were found allegedly being readied for deployment to the front line. A Russian suspect was arrested.

Kenyan officials say they have since raised the issue of fraudulent recruitment with Moscow.

Kenya is not the only country affected. A Ukrainian intelligence report published last year said Moscow had recruited foreign nationals from Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo and Uganda as well as Nepal, India and Cuba, while nationals of several more countries have spoken to the media about their ordeal.

According to the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), African countries are fertile ground for Russian recruiters. Sub-Saharan Africa in particular represents "a vast and easily accessible recruitment pool due to high poverty rates in most countries in the region combined with a strong desire to emigrate", the think tank said in a report released on Thursday.

RFI spoke to one Cameroonian who thought he was going to Russia to work as a caretaker and ended up on the Ukrainian front.

"What I want is to mobilise the Africans who are travelling to Russia, so that they understand that they are being used. I want to tell people what's going on... so that it stops, so that Africans stop coming here to die," he said.

"We come here to die in a war that we don't know where it came from or why it started."

This story was adapted from the original in French by RFI correspondent Gaëlle Laleix.

Russian WhatsApp users challenge restrictions in Moscow court

Russian WhatsApp users challenge restrictions in Moscow court / bne IntelliNews

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By bne tech December 24, 2025

A group of 42 Russian cellphone users filed an administrative lawsuit against the telecoms regulator and the Digital Development Ministry, challenging restrictions on calls in Telegram and WhatsApp messengers, RBC reported on December 24.

The lawsuit was filed on December 23 at Moscow's Tagansky District Court, with plaintiffs requesting that actions by Roskomnadzor and the Digital Development Ministry to partially restrict calls be declared illegal and unfounded.

Plaintiffs stated that according to Central Bank of Russia data, mobile calls and SMS remain the main channels of telephone fraud rather than messengers.

They argue that combating fraud is possible through alternative methods not affecting law-abiding users' rights, including optional blocking of messenger internet traffic at clients' request.

The lawsuit states that the introduced restrictions violate freedom to receive and transmit information, communication secrecy and private life, alongside the principle of inadmissibility of arbitrary limitation of citizens' rights and freedoms.

Roskomnadzor, the regulator, announced measures to restrict voice calls in foreign messengers in August 2025, citing the need to combat fraud and WhatsApp's failure to comply with Russian legislation.

The agency claimed these services became primary tools for deceiving citizens, extorting funds and involving people in illegal activities.

Sergei Novikov, head of the presidential administration's public projects department, stated on December 23 that blocking voice calls in foreign messengers since August has helped reduce cyber fraud statistics.

As a replacement, Russia is promoting "MAX", a state-backed "super-app" developed by government-aligned VK (Russia's largest social media firm), as the primary alternative to WhatsApp and Dubai-based Telegram, whose founder also created the VK platform more than a decade ago.

WhatsApp use in Russia has declined by 27% in 2025, analytics firm Digital Budget told RBC on December 15.

The average session duration on the messenger reached 118 seconds. During the comparable week in 2024, this figure stood at 148 seconds, representing a 21% year-on-year decline.

At the same time, average daily app openings decreased from nearly 13 times to less than 12 times.

Russia plans to track every click as Kremlin pushes internet ID scheme

Russia plans to track every click as Kremlin pushes internet ID scheme / CC: Stock image

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By bne IntelliNews December 24, 2025

Russia is rolling out a new scheme to tag every internet user with a single tracking number that follows them across every website and app they visit, Deputy Digital Development Minister Bella Cherkesova revealed on December 24.

The government plans to link the permanent ID to people's mobile phone numbers before claiming to strip away their identity - though critics warn the system could still expose what Russians are watching, reading and doing online, Rossiyskaya Gazeta also reported on December 24.

Officials insist the tracking is needed because the same person using different devices currently gets counted multiple times, messing up audience statistics. But the real winners could be advertisers hungry for data on who's clicking what.

"No one will ever know what a specific user watched. Data is transmitted to Mediascope in already anonymised form," the ministry claimed, referring to the television and online audience measurement company that will hoover up the information.

The scheme has sparked alarm amongst industry insiders who say it won't fix the real problems plaguing digital advertising.

"The key problem consists in matching user profiles on different platforms, even those that do not require user authorisation. Ecosystems 'lock' data inside and do not allow cross-platform user synchronisation. As a result, communication with consumers is duplicated, leading to increased costs of quality contact," Alexander Papkov, vice president of advertising industry body ARIR, stated.

Papkov warned that simply creating tracking numbers won't solve anything - Russia needs secure systems for sharing data without exposing sensitive business secrets. He demanded equal access for all companies if the ID scheme goes ahead.

"In any case, even with introduction of a unified identifier, it is critically important to ensure full and equal access to possibilities of its use by all market participants, since advanced solutions can only appear through healthy competitive struggle," Papkov stated.

The ministry is still thrashing out details with online cinemas, social networks and other digital platforms about how the tracking system would actually work. Internet resources would strip away names before passing encrypted data to Mediascope, officials claim.

  

Solid-state sodium batteries breakthrough to challenge lithium dominance with safer, cheaper alternative

A new cheaper, safer sodium-ion battery could challenge lithium's dominance in the rechargeable battery technology. / bne IntelliNews

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By bne IntelliNews December 23, 2025

A new class of solid-state sodium-ion batteries could reshape the future of electric vehicles and renewable energy storage that may replace the dominant lithium batteries and solve several headaches along the way.

Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries offer a safer, lower-cost alternative to the lithium-ion systems that currently dominate the business, according to recent studies published in Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.

The long-sought breakthrough outlines a novel solid-state battery architecture that achieves 99.26% efficiency after 600 charge cycles, while eliminating lithium, cobalt, and flammable liquid electrolytes — long-standing weaknesses in current lithium-ion (Li-ion) designs.

The new batteries use a solid electrolyte based on sulphur and chlorine that mimics the conductive performance of liquid systems while offering dramatically improved thermal stability. Unlike conventional Li-ion cells, which are prone to thermal runaway and catching fire, sodium-ion batteries have lower electrochemical potential and more stable cathode materials, making them far less susceptible to overheating.

The potential implications are significant. Li-ion batteries currently account for roughly 70% of the world’s rechargeable batteries, with the energy sector alone consuming over 90% of global supply, according to data from the International Energy Agency.

Their role in battery energy storage systems (BESS) — which store intermittent solar and wind power — that is part of the current battery revolution, has come under scrutiny recently following a series of fires at US grid storage sites, particularly in California. A move to Na-ion will end this problem while lowering the already tumbling costs further.

However, the biggest advantage is the wide availability of sodium, one half of the regular table salt molecule. By contrast, lithium ore deposits, the sister element of sodium in the first group in the periodic table, are relatively rare and the ore is difficult and expensive to process. There are major deposits in Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Australia and China. In Europe, Ukraine holds one third of, as yet untapped, European deposits.

Historically Na-ion batteries have lagged behind lithium in energy density and cycle life, limiting their commercial uptake. However, the new research brings sodium cells closer to the performance levels needed for widespread adoption. The next step will be to balance safety with energy output, and to find manufacturing processes that can scale to meet global demand.

As part of its green energy dominance agenda, China is already moving aggressively in this direction. In April 2025, battery giant CATL announced it had begun mass-producing Na-ion batteries using its new “Naxtra” platform, with deployment in cars expected from 2026. Chinese automaker BYD is also developing Na-ion systems for grid storage.

Sodium’s availability also contributes to lower costs and simpler recycling, with no cobalt or heavy metals involved. As one researcher noted: “No cobalt, no lithium, no drama.”

Still, the challenge of manufacturing Na-ion batteries at commercial scale remains to be overcome. Experts caution that, while the material-level breakthroughs are promising, real-world deployment hinges on economies of scale, supply chain development, and integration with existing vehicle and grid architectures.

Addressing interfacial challenges in lithium metal batteries: A multi-pronged approach with 2-FBSA

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This study explores the effectiveness of 2-fluorobenzenesulfonamide (2-FBSA) as a multifunctional additive in lithium metal batteries. 2-FBSA modifies the electrolyte solvation structure, lowers the Li+ desolvation energy barrier, and promotes faster Li+ transport. Its decomposition forms a robust solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer rich in inorganic Li salts, effectively suppressing Li dendrites and mitigating parasitic reactions. This leads to significantly improved cycling stability and rate performance in both Li-Li symmetric cells and Li-LiFePO4 full cells, offering a promising solution for the practical application of lithium metal batteries.

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As the most widely used energy storage device, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with graphite as the negative    electrode have already approached the theoretical limit of energy density, which cannot provide enough energy density required in electric vehicles in the pursuit of high driving range. Li metal, with an ultrahigh theoretical capacity (3860 mAh g−1) and the lowest redox potential (−3.04 V vs. standard hydrogen electrode), is regarded as the “holy grail”of the next-generation negative electrode material.  As well known, the commercial electrolyte formulae with LiPF6 as solute and organic carbonate as solvent have been widely used in the battery industry for several decades. However, carbonate solvents are tend to decompose on the surface of highly reductive Li metal anode and form loose solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) rich in organic Li salts. This phenomenon induces Li dendrite growth and the continuous electrolyte decomposition, greatly limiting the practical application of Li metal batteries

The team published their research in Nano Research on November 28, 2025.

The authors report an additive 2-fluorobenzenesulfonamide (2-FBSA), which possesses three major functional groups that can regulate both electrode interfaces effectively. Comprehensive characterization analyses reveal that the solvation clusters formed by 2-FBSA molecules exhibit a lower de-solvation energy barrier, thereby accelerating Li+ transport kinetics. Further comprehensive characterization analyses are carried out to study the working mechanism of 2-FBSA additive. Furthermore, the introduction of 2-FBSA enhances the solvation degree of ions and free solvent molecules, and the newly formed solvation clusters were more inclined   to adsorb on the Li electrode surface, preferentially participating in the further interface construction. Thus, the C-F, amino, and sulfonyl functional groups existing in 2-FBSA will be decomposed preferentially to form SEI rich in F, N, and S inorganic Li salts on the electrode surface. As excellent Li+ conductors and electronic insulators, these inorganic Li salts can homogenize the transport behavior of Li+. At the same time, the high Young’ s modulus of inorganic Li salts enables them to resist stress changes caused by volume expansion    during electrode cycling. This effectively alleviates both interfacial side reactions and uncontrollable Li dendrite growth affecting the Li metal anode, thereby improving the mechanical and     electrochemical performance of the SEI and ensuring stable battery cycling. In addition, ROSO2Li is produced on positive particles owing to the decomposition of sulfonyl group, which has been proven to be a good passivation component, and effective in maintaining the stability of the positive electrode interface. Therefore, with assistance of optimal dosage additive, Li-Li symmetric batteries prolong the lifetime (2400 h) at 0.5 mA cm-2, more than twice that of additive free cells. And the assembled Li-LiFePO4 full cells have also been tested, demonstrating outstanding capacity retention (72%) after 400 cycles at 1 C, significantly higher than that without additive participation.

 

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22279070 (L. W.) and U21A20170 (X. H.)), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2019YFA0705703 (L. W.)), the Beijing Natural   Science   Foundation (No. L242005 (X. H.))   and   the “Explorer 100” cluster system of Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology.

 

About Nano Research

Nano Research is a peer-reviewed, open access, international and interdisciplinary research journal, sponsored by Tsinghua University and the Chinese Chemical Society, published by Tsinghua University Press on the platform SciOpen. It publishes original high-quality research and significant review articles on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology, ranging from basic aspects of the science of nanoscale materials to practical applications of such materials. After 18 years of development, it has become one of the most influential academic journals in the nano field. Nano Research has published more than 1,000 papers every year from 2022, with its cumulative count surpassing 7,000 articles. In 2024 InCites Journal Citation Reports, its 2024 IF is 9.0 (8.7, 5 years), and it continues to be the Q1 area among the four subject classifications. Nano Research Award, established by Nano Research together with TUP and Springer Nature in 2013, and Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) Awards, established by Nano Research in 2018, have become international academic awards with global influence.

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Nano Research

DOI

10.26599/NR.2025.94907751 

Article Title

Addressing interfacial challenges in lithium metal batteries: A multi-pronged approach with 2-FBSA