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Halogenated Volatile Additive Strategy for Regulating Crystallization Kinetics and Enabling 20.40% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells with Low Non-Radiative Recombination Energy Loss

Sat, 26/04/2025 - 07:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01368B, PaperChangjiang Li, Min Deng, Haonan Chen, Yuwei Duan, Chentong Liao, Zeqin Chen, Qiang Peng
Halogenated volatile additives play an important role in well regulating blend morphology in polymer solar cells (PSCs). However, the mismatched crystallization rate between the donor and acceptor often leads to...
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In-situ molecular compensation in wide-bandgap perovskite for efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells

Sat, 26/04/2025 - 03:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01369K, PaperSheng Fu, Nannan Sun, Shuaifeng Hu, Hao Chen, Xingxing Jiang, Yunfei Li, Xiaotian Zhu, Xuemin Guo, Wenxiao Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Andrey S. Vasenko, Junfeng Fang
Substantial VOC loss and halide segregation in wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite sub-cells pose significant challenges for advancing all-perovskite tandem solar cells (APTSCs). Regarding this, one of the most impactful developments is...
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Unraveling Structure-performance Relationship in Hard Carbon for Sodium-ion Battery by Coupling Key Structural Parameters

Fri, 25/04/2025 - 16:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00278H, PaperChun Wu, Yunrui Yang, Yifan Li, Xiangxi He, Yinghao Zhang, Wenjie Huang, Qinghang Chen, Xiaohao Liu, Shuangqiang Chen, Qinfen Gu, Lin Li, Sean C. Smith, Xin Tan, Yan Yu, Xingqiao Wu, Shulei Chou
The electrochemical performance of hard carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries is primarily determined by the microstructure of materials, and the challenge lies in establishing structure-performance relationship at molecular level. So...
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Ordered Interfacial Domain Expansion Catalysis Enhances Hydrogen Evolution for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolysis

Fri, 25/04/2025 - 10:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00441A, PaperShu-Hong Yu, Mingrong Qu, Yu-Xiao Cheng, Sihua Feng, Jie Xu, JiaKang Yao, Wensheng Yan, Sheng Zhu, Liang Cao, Rui Wu
Metal/metal oxide composites represent a promising group of catalysts that can substantially reduce the platinum group metal (PGM) loading at the cathode for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEM-WE). However,...
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Designing multi-tentacle electrolytes to enable fast and deep cycling of aqueous Zn batteries at low temperatures

Fri, 25/04/2025 - 03:36
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01316J, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Huimin Wang, Mingzi Sun, Yongqiang Yang, Junhua Zhou, Lingtao Fang, Qiyao Huang, Bolong Huang, Zijian Zheng
Rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries (AZBs) offer a safe and sustainable solution for large-scale energy storage, but the freezing of electrolytes prevents AZBs from working at low temperatures. Recent research shows...
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Identifying the role of Zn self-dissolution in the anode corrosion process in Zn-ion batteries

Thu, 24/04/2025 - 19:40
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00485C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Yi Yuan, Zixuan Li, Rongyu Deng, Shengda D. Pu, Marc Walker, Mingzhi Cai, Feixiang Wu, Peter G. Bruce, Alex Robertson
Zn-ion batteries for practical applications face several challenges, some of which arise from the inevitable degradation of the Zn metal anode. The intrinsic thermodynamic instability of Zn metal anodes in...
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Mechanisms and Scale-up Potential of 3D Solar Interfacial-Evaporators

Thu, 24/04/2025 - 15:38
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01104C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.James Han Zhang, Rohith Mittapally, Abimbola Oluwade, Gang Chen
Evaporation fluxes from porous evaporators under sunlight have been reported to exceed the solar-thermal limit, determined by relating the incoming solar energy to the latent and sensible heat of water,...
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Techno-Economic and Life-Cycle Assessment for Syngas Production Using Sustainable Plasma-Assisted Methane Reforming Technologies

Thu, 24/04/2025 - 15:38
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05129G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Marc Escribà-Gelonch, Jose Luis Osorio-Tejada, Le Yu, Bart Wanten, Annemie Bogaerts, Volker Hessel
This study combines for the first time techno-economic and life-cycle assessment metrics to evaluate the economic and environmental viability of plasma-assisted dry reforming of methane (DRM) for producing syngas from...
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Unlocking High-Performance Photocapacitors for Edge Computing in Low-Light Environments

Wed, 23/04/2025 - 15:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01052G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Natalie Flores Diaz, Francesca De Rossi, Timo Keller, George Harvey Morritt, Zaida Perez- Bassart, A. Lopez-Rubio, Maria Fabra Rovira, Richard Freitag, Alessio Gagliardi, Francesca Fasulo, Ana Belen Munoz-Garcia, Michele Pavone, Hamed Javanbakht Lomeri, Sandy Sánchez, Michael Grätzel, Francesca Brunetti, Marina Freitag
Driving continuous, low-power artificial intelligence (AI) in the Internet of Things (IoT) requires reliable energy harvesting and storage under indoor or low-light conditions, where batteries face constraints such as finite...
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A Large Conjugated Rigid Dimer Acceptor Enables 20.19% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

Wed, 23/04/2025 - 09:39
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00878F, PaperWendi Shi, Qiansai Han, Wenkai Zhao, Ruohan Wang, Longyu Li, Guangkun Song, Xin Chen, Guankui Long, Zhaoyang Yao, Yan Lu, Chenxi Li, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Chen
Non-fullerene acceptors with a large conjugated rigid skeleton are conducive to promoting low disorder and reducing non-radiative recombination loss (ΔEnr), thereby improving open voltage(Voc) in organic solar cells (OSCs). However,...
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Dual strain regulated RhNiAu trimetallene for efficient plasmonic-promoted acidic nitrate electroreduction

Wed, 23/04/2025 - 09:39
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00788G, PaperWei Zhong, Qing-Ling Hong, Qiu-Yu Du, Bao Yu Xia, Xuan Ai, Fumin Li, Yu Chen
Nitrate electroreduction reaction (NO3ERR) under acidic conditions provides a green and sustainable pathway for acidic industrial wastewater treatment and ammonia (NH3) synthesis. As a typical multi-electron transfer and proton-coupled reaction,...
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Tailored glycol-functionalized mixed-conductive polythiophene coatings enable stable zinc anodes

Wed, 23/04/2025 - 09:39
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00584A, PaperHui Zhang, Tianyu Qiu, Jinlin Yang, Yifei Ma, Chenfeng Ding, Luis K. Ono, Jinfeng Zeng, Wanli Liu, Shu-Nan Zhao, Chao Zou, Qing Jiang, Yabing Qi, Xinlong Tian, Hu Chen
Polymer protective layers possessing high flexibility and compatibility with substrates show potentials to stabilize zinc anodes. However, inferior electronic or ionic conductivity, as well as limited structural tunability restrain electrochemical...
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Multi-H-Bonded Self-Assembled Superstructures for Ultrahigh-Capacity and Ultralong-Life All-Organic Ammonium-Ion Batteries

Wed, 23/04/2025 - 08:37
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00823A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Pingxuan Liu, Ziyang Song, Qi Huang, Ling Miao, Yaokang Lv, Lihua Gan, Mingxian Liu
All-organic ammonium-ion batteries (AOBs) with light organic electrodes and small-hydrated-sized NH4+ charge carriers are up-and-coming for next-generation energy storage. However, the low NH4+-accessible redox-active motifs of organics with high coordination...
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Screening thermoelectric materials for high output performance in wearable electronics

Wed, 23/04/2025 - 03:39
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00216H, PaperXinjie Yuan, Pengfei Qiu, Chuanyao Sun, Shiqi Yang, Yi Wu, Yumeng Wang, Ming Gu, Lidong Chen, Xun Shi
Thermoelectric (TE) technology provides a promising self-powered solution to the wearable electronics and Internet of Things (IoT), but the output voltage density and power density of current TE devices are...
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Optimization of crystallization dynamics in wide-bandgap bromine–iodine perovskite films for high-performance perovskite–organic tandem solar cells

Tue, 22/04/2025 - 16:39

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00264H, PaperZonglong Song, Jiangfeng Wang, Yuqi Bao, Jie Zeng, Deng Wang, Jiang He, Peide Zhu, Bo Jiang, Zhixin Liu, Siru He, Yanna Hou, Ziyang Hu, Chen Xie, Yongsheng Chen, Yongsheng Liu, Xingzhu Wang, Baomin Xu
By introducing moroxydine hydrochloride to optimize the crystallization of wide-bandgap perovskites, phase separation of halides was suppressed, achieving a PCE of 18.76%. This technology significantly improved photothermal stability.
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Machine learning-assisted benign transformation of three zinc states in zinc ion batteries

Tue, 22/04/2025 - 15:38

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00650C, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Jianbo Dong, Guolang Zhou, Wenhao Ding, Jiayi Ji, Qing Wang, Tianshi Wang, Lili Zhang, Xiuyang Zou, Jingzhou Yin, Edison Huixiang Ang
A machine-learning-designed cerium-iron MOF layer enhances Zn anode stability, achieving over 4300 hours at 1 mA cm−2 and 99.8% coulombic efficiency over 1400 cycles at 2 mA cm−2, providing a cost-effective protective strategy.
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One-Stone-Two-Birds: Over 26% Efficiency in Perovskite Solar Cells via Synergistic Crystallization & Interface Regulation

Tue, 22/04/2025 - 11:42
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00189G, PaperBoxin Jiao, Liguo Tan, Yiran Ye, Ningyu Ren, Minghao Li, Hang Li, Xiaoyi Li, Chenyi Yi
Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have emerged as promising photovoltaic materials due to their excellent photoelectronic properties and low-cost fabrication techniques. However, the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are...
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Sustainable Protection of Natural Liquid Enables Ultra-Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells via Allylic Disulfide Rearrangement

Tue, 22/04/2025 - 03:42
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00458F, PaperYang Yang, Shuyuan Wan, Hang Wei, Lijun Yang, Zhiyuan Dai, Haoze Lu, Zhe Liu, Bo Chen, Ruihao Chen, Hongqiang Wang
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) suffer from instability under prolonged exposure to light, moisture, and heat, primarily due to uncoordinated ionic defects. Current strategies primarily focus on using solid-state molecules to...
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Internal and External Cultivation: Unleashing the Potential of Photogenerated Carrier Dynamics Behaviors to Boost Photocatalytic CO2 Hydrogenation

Mon, 21/04/2025 - 14:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00605H, PaperYuhao Guo, Qinhui Guan, Xingjuan Li, Mengjun Zhao, Na Li, Zizhong Zhang, Gui-qiang Fei, Tingjiang Yan
In heterogeneous photocatalysis, the dynamics of charge carriers holds particular significance for comprehending the underlying catalytic mechanism and designing highly efficient photocatalysts. The current technological challenge lies in how to...
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Achieving a higher lithium density in anode surpassing that of pure metallic lithium for high-energy-density batteries

Thu, 17/04/2025 - 16:49
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05289G, PaperXiancheng Wang, Bao Zhang, Zihe Chen, Shiyu Liu, Wenyu Wang, Shuibin Tu, Renming Zhan, Li Wang, Yongming Sun
The low-density, high-porosity lithium (Li) plating layer at the anode is one of the principal determinants of the overall volumetric expansion in rechargeable high-energy-density Li metal batteries, which account for...
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