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Scalable Copper Current Collectors with Precisely Engineered Lithiophilic Alloy “Skins” for Durable Lithium-Metal Batteries

Tue, 04/02/2025 - 10:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05862C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Huiqun Wang, Yuxiang Mao, Peng Xu, Yu Ding, Huiping Yang, Jian-Feng Li, Yu Gu, Jiajia Han, Li Zhang, Bingwei Mao
Depositing a uniform lithium metal layer on a highly conductive current collector (CC) is essential for the development of next-generation Li metal batteries (LMBs). However, poor cycling stability, low Coulombic...
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Sodium cluster-driven safety concerns of sodium-ion batteries

Tue, 04/02/2025 - 10:44

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05509H, PaperJiaping Niu, Junyuan Dong, Xiaohu Zhang, Lang Huang, Guoli Lu, Xiaolei Han, Jinzhi Wang, Tianyu Gong, Zheng Chen, Jingwen Zhao, Guanglei Cui
This study reveals that quasi-metallic sodium clusters in hard carbon possess an electron state density even higher than that of metallic sodium, making them more susceptible to triggering thermal runaway compared to lithium in graphite.
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Repairing the interfacial defect via preferable adsorption of ytterbium enables high-utilization and dendrite-free Zn metal anode

Tue, 04/02/2025 - 10:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05382F, PaperLong Jiang, Zhenyue Xing, Yanfen Liu, Xiaodong Shi, Le Li, Yangyang Liu, Bingan Lu, Jiang Zhou
Dendrite growth and spontaneous corrosion of zinc (Zn) metal anodes pose significant challenges for their application in grid-scale energy storage, primarily due to the instability of the bulk phase characterized...
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A Highly Efficient Electrolysis System Enabled by Direct Impedance Matching Between Charge Migration Triboelectric Nanogenerator and Series Connected Electrolysers

Tue, 04/02/2025 - 10:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05522E, PaperYu Deng, Qian Qin, Wencong He, Hengyu Guo, Jie Chen
As an electromechanical conversion technology, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are widely used in water electrolysis for hydrogen production. Nevertheless, the impedance mismatch between TENGs and conventional electrolysers significantly reduces energy utilization...
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Biocrust-Inspired Interface Layer with Dual Functions towards Highly Reversible Zinc Metal Anode

Tue, 04/02/2025 - 06:42
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE06048B, PaperHuanyu Li, Yu Li, Mingquan Liu, Ziyin Yang, Yuteng Gong, Ji Qian, Ripeng Zhang, Ying Bai, Feng Wu, Chuan Wu
The commercialization of aqueous zinc-ion batteries is still challenging due to the terrible dendrite growth and serious side reactions occurring at anode surface. In-situ construction of solid electrolyte interfaces (SEI)...
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An integrated design for high-energy, durable zinc–iodine batteries with ultra-high recycling efficiency

Mon, 03/02/2025 - 16:44

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05873A, PaperLeiqian Zhang, Han Ding, Haiqi Gao, Jiaming Gong, Hele Guo, Shuoqing Zhang, Yi Yu, Guanjie He, Tao Deng, Ivan P. Parkin, Johan Hofkens, Xiulin Fan, Feili Lai, Tianxi Liu
This work presents a zinc–iodine battery featuring a liquid–liquid biphasic electrolyte and an integrated cell structure, which facilitates an iodine loading of 69.8 mg cm−2, a self-discharge rate of 3.4% per month, and ∼100% recycling efficiency.
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Strategies to Improve the Photovoltaic Performance of M-Series Acceptor-Based Polymer Solar Cells: Chemical Hybridization Versus Physical Blending of Acceptors

Mon, 03/02/2025 - 14:37
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00294J, PaperHaiting Shi, Hui Guo, Dongdong Cai, Jin-Yun Wang, Yunlong Ma, Qingdong Zheng
A novel asymmetric acceptor, M36-FCl, has been developed by chemically hybridizing two symmetric M-series acceptors: one with fluorinated terminal groups (M36F) and the other with chlorinated terminal groups (M36Cl). This...
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Melamine holding PbI2 with three “arms”: an effective chelation strategy to control the lead iodide to perovskite conversion for inverted perovskite solar cells

Mon, 03/02/2025 - 10:41

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04692G, PaperShizi Luo, Shuguang Cao, Tongjun Zheng, Zhuoneng Bi, Yupeng Zheng, Yiqun Li, Biniyam Zemene Taye, Victoria V. Ozerova, Lyubov A. Frolova, Nikita A. Emelianov, Eugeniy D. Tarasov, Zheng Liang, Lavrenty G. Gutsev, Sergey M. Aldoshin, Bala R. Ramachandran, Pavel A. Troshin, Xueqing Xu
Herein, we have proposed a novel tridentate chelation strategy to manage the excessive amount of unreacted PbI2 in perovskite films, achieving a inverted PSC device with a PCE of 25.66% by sequential deposition method.
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Designing dithieno-benzodithiophene-based small molecule donors for thickness-tolerant and large-scale polymer solar cells

Fri, 31/01/2025 - 18:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2610-2620
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04300B, PaperShanshan Wang, Lin-Yong Xu, Bo Xiao, Mingxia Chen, Meimei Zhang, Wei Gao, Biao Xiao, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Renqiang Yang, Jie Min, Rui Sun
The small molecule donor SD62-doping strategy with an excellent universality is beneficial to fabricating thickness-tolerant and large-scale high-performance polymer solar cells and solar modules.
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Modeling diurnal and annual ethylene generation from solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction devices

Fri, 31/01/2025 - 18:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2453-2467
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00545G, PaperKyra M. K. Yap, William J. Wei, Melanie Rodríguez Pabón, Alex J. King, Justin C. Bui, Lingze Wei, Sang-Won Lee, Adam Z. Weber, Alexis T. Bell, Adam C. Nielander, Thomas F. Jaramillo
Integrated solar fuels devices for CO2 reduction (CO2R) are a promising technology class towards reducing CO2 emissions.
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Realizing high-performance thermoelectric modules through enhancing the power factor via optimizing the carrier mobility in n-type PbSe crystals

Fri, 31/01/2025 - 18:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2588-2597
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00433G, PaperSiqi Wang, Yi Wen, Shulin Bai, Zhe Zhao, Yichen Li, Xiang Gao, Qian Cao, Cheng Chang, Li-Dong Zhao
The thermoelectric properties of n-type PbSe are enhanced by optimizing the power factor through crystal growth and slight-tuning vacancy and interstitial defects.
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Ultra-stability and high output performance of a sliding mode triboelectric nanogenerator achieved by an asymmetric electrode structure design

Fri, 31/01/2025 - 18:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2651-2661
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04253G, PaperGui Li, Jian Wang, Yue He, Shuyan Xu, Shaoke Fu, Chuncai Shan, Huiyuan Wu, Shanshan An, Kaixian Li, Wen Li, Ping Wang, Chenguo Hu
A new type of sliding-TENG with asymmetric electrode design achieves high output performance and ultra-stability by the balance of electrostatic shielding and charge accumulation for providing power supply to some electrical devices.
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Efficient rigid and flexible perovskite solar cells using strongly adsorbed molecules for lattice repair and grain boundary mitigation

Fri, 31/01/2025 - 13:43
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05232C, PaperXi Fan, Jiwen Chen, Jinzhao Wang, Jing Wang, Jixi Zeng, Feng Wei, Shuai Gao, Jia Li, Jing Zhang, Feng Yan, Weijie Song
Additives with strong adsorption energies coordinate with lead ions and reduce halogen vacancy defects, leading to a highly ordered atomic arrangement of the lattices and grain boundary mitigation of the...
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Material–electrolyte interfacial interaction enabling the formation of an inorganic-rich solid electrolyte interphase for fast-charging Si-based lithium-ion batteries

Thu, 30/01/2025 - 21:39

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2631-2641
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00407H, PaperKai Cheng, Shuibin Tu, Bao Zhang, Wenyu Wang, Xiaohong Wang, Yucheng Tan, Xiaoxue Chen, Chunhao Li, Chenhui Li, Li Wang, Yongming Sun
We demonstrated the interaction between electrolyte composition and P interphase of Si-based battery anode, and showed its exceptional stability and fast-charging capability by the formation of a robust Li3P/LiF solid electrolyte interphase.
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Advanced carbon-based rear electrodes for low-cost and efficient perovskite solar cells

Thu, 30/01/2025 - 11:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05462H, Review ArticleJingsheng He, Yu Bai, Zhixin (Veela) Luo, Ran Ran, Wei Zhou, Wei Wang, Zongping Shao
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) as new-generation photovoltaic cells have received remarkable interests due to the facile fabrication procedures and superb power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Nevertheless, the widely used noble metal-based...
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Battery Lifetime Prediction Using Surface Temperature Features from Early Cycle Data

Thu, 30/01/2025 - 09:43
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05179C, PaperLawnardo Sugiarto, Zijie Huang, Yi-Chun Lu
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are highly sensitive to cycling conditions and show a nonlinear degradation pattern, typically noticeable in later stages. This affects the accuracy of most battery health prognostic models,...
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Strain and collapse during lithiation of layered transition metal oxides: a unified picture

Thu, 30/01/2025 - 03:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2753-2764
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04115H, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Thibaut Jousseaume, Jean-François Colin, Marion Chandesris, Sandrine Lyonnard, Samuel Tardif
Developing long-life, high-energy density materials such as the Ni-rich LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMCxyz) is needed to manufacture advanced Li-ion batteries.
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Trade-off between H2O-rich and H2O-poor electric double layers enables highly reversible Zn anodes in aqueous Zn-ion batteries

Thu, 30/01/2025 - 03:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2566-2575
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00147H, PaperKaiwen Qi, Pengrui Liang, Shiqiang Wei, Huaisheng Ao, Xuan Ding, Shiyuan Chen, Zhechen Fan, Chengming Wang, Li Song, Xiaojun Wu, Changzheng Wu, Yongchun Zhu
Trade-off between H2O-rich and H2O-poor EDLs to balance dead Zn and dendrites and side reactions, realizing highly reversible Zn anodes.
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Synergistically optimizing the optoelectronic properties and morphology using a photo-active solid additive for high-performance binary organic photovoltaics

Thu, 30/01/2025 - 03:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2598-2609
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04065H, PaperMengting Wang, Tianyi Chen, Yaokai Li, Guanyu Ding, Zeng Chen, Jikun Li, Chang Xu, Adiljan Wupur, Chenran Xu, Yuang Fu, Jingwei Xue, Weifei Fu, Weiming Qiu, Xi Yang, Dawei Wang, Wei Ma, Xinhui Lu, Haiming Zhu, Xiankai Chen, Xiaoye Wang, Hongzheng Chen, Lijian Zuo
This work explores a new solid additive with TADF properties for high-performance OPVs. The TADF additive fine-tunes the morphology and enhances exciton diffusion and dissociation, resulting in an efficiency of 19.4%, making it one of the top binary OPVs.
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Electrolytic cement clinker precursor production sustained through orthogonalization of ion vectors

Wed, 29/01/2025 - 17:41

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04881D, PaperZishuai Zhang, Aubry S. R. Williams, Shaoxuan Ren, Benjamin A. W. Mowbray, Colin T. E. Parkyn, Yongwook Kim, Tengxiao Ji, Curtis P. Berlinguette
An electrochemical reactor (“cement electrolyser”) in tandem with a chemical reactor (“calcium reactor”) enables electrochemical production of Ca(OH)2 for 50 hours at 100 mA cm−2.
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