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cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.mes-hallcs.LG Claudia Islas-Vargas, L. Ricardo Montoya, Carlos A. Vital-Jos\'e et al. · Mar 23, 2026

Sodium-ion batteries need high-capacity anodes with fast ion transport, but hard carbon suffers from structural disorder and slow diffusion. This computational study uses the SpookyNet machine-learning force field with DFT to characterize aminobenzene-functionalized Janus graphene at room temperature. The work identifies a three-stage sodium storage mechanism and predicts a high capacity of ~400 mAh g$^{-1}$ with diffusion coefficients two to three orders of magnitude above hard carbon.

Sodium-ion batteries require anodes that combine high capacity, low operating voltage, fast Na-ion transport, and mechanical stability, which conventional anodes struggle to deliver. Here, we use the SpookyNet machine-learning force field (MLFF) together with all-electron density-functional theory calculations to characterize Na storage in aminobenzene-functionalized Janus graphene (Na$_x$AB) at room-temperature. Simulations across state of charge reveal a three-stage storage mechanism-site-specific adsorption at aminobenzene groups and Na$_n$@AB$_m$ structure formation, followed by interlayer gallery filling-contrasting the multi-stage pore-, graphite-interlayer-, and defect-controlled behavior in hard carbon. This leads to an OCV profile with an extended low-voltage plateau of 0.15 V vs. Na/Na$^{+}$, an estimated gravimetric capacity of $\sim$400 mAh g$^{-1}$, negligible volume change, and Na diffusivities of $\sim10^{-6}$ cm$^{2}$ s$^{-1}$, two to three orders of magnitude higher than in hard carbon. Our results establish Janus aminobenzene-graphene as a promising, structurally defined high-capacity Na-ion anode and illustrate the power of MLFF-based simulations for characterizing electrode materials.
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physics.chem-phcs.AI Junyi An, Xinyu Lu, Yun-Fei Shi et al. · Mar 23, 2026

Suiren-1.0 introduces a family of molecular foundation models designed to bridge the gap between microscopic 3D quantum-mechanical conformations and macroscopic 2D molecular property prediction. The framework comprises Suiren-Base (a 1.8B-parameter SE(3)-equivariant GNN pre-trained on 70M DFT samples), Suiren-Dimer (continued pre-training on intermolecular interactions), and Suiren-ConfAvg (a lightweight 2D model distilled via a novel Conformation Compression Distillation diffusion framework). This work matters because it attempts to unify quantum-accurate representations with practical cheminformatics workflows where only SMILES or graph inputs are available.

We introduce Suiren-1.0, a family of molecular foundation models for the accurate modeling of diverse organic systems. Suiren-1.0 comprising three specialized variants (Suiren-Base, Suiren-Dimer, and Suiren-ConfAvg) is integrated within an algorithmic framework that bridges the gap between 3D conformational geometry and 2D statistical ensemble spaces. We first pre-train Suiren-Base (1.8B parameters) on a 70M-sample Density Functional Theory dataset using spatial self-supervision and SE(3)-equivariant architectures, achieving robust performance in quantum property prediction. Suiren-Dimer extends this capability through continued pre-training on 13.5M intermolecular interaction samples. To enable efficient downstream application, we propose Conformation Compression Distillation (CCD), a diffusion-based framework that distills complex 3D structural representations into 2D conformation-averaged representations. This yields the lightweight Suiren-ConfAvg, which generates high-fidelity representations from SMILES or molecular graphs. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate that Suiren-1.0 establishes state-of-the-art results across a range of tasks. All models and benchmarks are open-sourced.