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Aramid dielectric co-polymer: from molecular engineering to roll-to-roll scalability for high-temperature capacitive energy storage

Wed, 12/03/2025 - 03:38
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00368G, PaperRui Yang, Ding Ai, Sidi Fan, Wenqi Zhang, Xiao Yang, Fangcheng Lv, Yonghong Cheng, Xiang Yu
Aromatic polymer films with high glass transition temperatures (Tg) exhibit superior thermal stability, making them ideal for high-temperature dielectric capacitors in advanced electrical and electronic systems. However, the leakage current...
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Dual thermal-stimulated self-adhesive mixed-phase interface to enable ultra-long cycle life of solid-state sodium metal batteries

Tue, 11/03/2025 - 16:42

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05140H, PaperGaofeng Du, Shuhao Wang, Zhaoming Tong, Xinyu Ji, Xinqi Wei, Quanbin Zha, Tianyou Zhai, Huiqiao Li
We used dual thermal stimulation to prepare a uniform and dense mixed interface, achieving strong adhesion between the solid-state electrolyte and Na metal, thereby realizing the ultra-long cycling life of solid-state sodium metal batteries.
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Correction: Sodium cluster-driven safety concerns of sodium-ion batteries

Tue, 11/03/2025 - 12:49
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE90025E, Correction Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Jiaping Niu, Junyuan Dong, Xiaohu Zhang, Lang Huang, Guoli Lu, Xiaolei Han, Jinzhi Wang, Tianyu Gong, Zheng Chen, Jingwen Zhao, Guanglei Cui
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Moderate Li⁺-Solvent Binding for Gel Polymer Electrolytes with Stable Cycling toward Lithium Metal Batteries

Tue, 11/03/2025 - 04:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05866F, PaperShaojie Zhang, Zhongpeng Li, Yixin Zhang Zhang, Xuanpeng Wang, Pei-Yang Dong, Saihai Lei, Weihao Zeng, Juan Wang, Xiaobin Liao, Xingye Chen, Dongqi Li, Shichun Mu
Solvation chemistry is crucial for gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) due to great impact on ionic conductivity and solid electrolyte interface (SEI) properties. However, its rational regulation to balance fast Li⁺...
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Green-Solvent-Processable Polymer Hole Transport Material for Achieving 26.31% Efficiency in Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

Mon, 10/03/2025 - 23:46
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00380F, PaperSen Yin, Xuanang Luo, Fushen Tang, Zhihui Xiong, Youran Lin, Wenyu Yang, Yuanyuan Shu, Yang Wang, Lei Ying
Polymer hole transport layer plays a critical role in inverted perovskite solar cells since they can determine stability and photovoltaic performances of devices. However, conventional polymer hole transport materials, such...
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Degradation path prediction of lithium-ion batteries under dynamic operating sequences

Mon, 10/03/2025 - 22:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04787G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Inwoo Kim, Hyunjae Kim, Seongha An, Jihoon Oh, Minsoo Kim, Jang Wook Choi
Reliable battery management requires the degradation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) under variable usage patterns to be accurately and continuously monitored and predicted. However, the chemically entangled internal states and the...
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Electricity-to-ammonia interconversion in protonic ceramic cells: advances, challenges and perspectives

Mon, 10/03/2025 - 09:37
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE06100D, Review Article Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Mingzhuang Liang, Jinwook Kim, Xiaomin Xu, Hainan Sun, Yufei Song, SungHyun Jeon, Tae Ho Shin, Zongping Shao, WooChul Jung
NH3 is an attractive alternative fuel to hydrogen and methane, offering advantages such as easy compression at room temperature, straightforward storage and transportation, high volumetric energy density, and carbon-free nature....
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Nitride solid-state electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium metal batteries

Sun, 09/03/2025 - 04:39
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04927F, Review Article Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Weihan Li, Minsi Li, Haoqi Ren, Jung Tae Kim, Ruying Li, Tsun-Kong Sham, Xueliang Sun
Nitride solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) hold significant potential for addressing critical interfacial issues between SSEs and lithium metal in all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. These batteries are at the forefront of energy...
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“Head Surgery” of Polycyclic o-Quinones with Cyanated Aromatic Rings towards High Electron Mobility Acceptors Enable 19.6% Additive-Free Binary Organic Solar Cells

Sat, 08/03/2025 - 16:40
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00031A, PaperTainan Duan, Jia Wang, Xiaochan Zuo, Yanyi Zhong, Yuhong Long, Peiran Wang, Kaihuai Tu, Cheng Zhong, Jiangbin Zhang, Oleg Alekseevich Rakitin, Zhaoyang Yao, Xiangjian Wan, Yan Zhao, Bin Kan, Yongsheng Chen
The development of high-performance organic electron acceptors is pivotal for advancing organic optoelectronic devices. In this paper, a new synthetic approach was developed to construct fused-ring aromatic backbones and the...
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Anode-Free Sodium Metal Batteries: Optimisation of Electrolytes and Interphases

Sat, 08/03/2025 - 00:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00136F, Review Article Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Huihua Li, Fanglin Wu, Jian Wang, Jingxuan Wang, Hongxu Qu, Minghua Chen, Huang Zhang, Stefano Passerini
Anode-free sodium metal batteries (AFSMBs) represent a significant advancement in energy storage technology, offering high energy density and cost-effective solutions. However, their applications are impeded by the critical sodium deposition...
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Self-powered electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from air and lignin

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 14:42
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE06106C, PaperYongrong Li, Denghao Ouyang, Xi Liu, Yichen Zhang, Zhiqiang Niu, JunYong Zhu, Xuejun Pan, Xuebing Zhao
Lignin, which is typically available as a by-product of pulping process and biomass biorefinery, is a sustainable feedstock for production of carbon fuels and materials. Here, we report a novel...
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Targeted Deflecting Zn2+ Migration Trajectory by Piezomagnetic Effect to Enable Horizontal Zn Deposition

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 14:42
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04115A, PaperChenming Zhou, Zhezhong Zhang, Mu Zhang, Xudong Sun, Jun Zhang, Gang Huang, Zhaolin Na
The rampant growth of dendrites caused by inhomogeneous Zn2+ ion flux and "tip effect" significantly hinder the development of aquesous Zn-ion batteries. The conventional artificial protective layers (APLs) improve Zn...
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Industrially viable formate production with 50% lower CO2 emissions

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 12:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00452G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Fanxu Meng, Zihan Shen, Xinlong Lin, Pengfei Song, Tianze Wu, Shibo Xi, Chao Wu, Zhenhui Ma, Daniel Mandler, Zhichuan J. Xu
The conventional production of formic acid is energy-intensive, requiring methanol and carbon monoxide reactions followed by hydrolysis under high temperature and pressure. Methanol electrochemical refinery (e-refinery) offers a sustainable alternative...
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Defective 1T-VS2 with Fibonacci Pattern Unlocking High Mass-Loading and Self-Charging Cathodes for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 18:41
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00612K, PaperTao Li, Xinji Dong, Hange Yang, jianwei zhang, Rong Huang, Zhuoran Lv, Yueyue Li, Shi Cong Zhang, Fu Qiang Huang, Tian Quan Lin
Cathode materials that exhibit high capacity, rapid charging, and long lifespan at high mass loading are crucial for the commercialization of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). However, challenges such as sluggish...
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Restoration of Li+ Pathways in the [010] Direction during Direct Regeneration for Spent LiFePO4

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 14:45
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00641D, PaperShuaipeng Hao, Yuelin Lv, Yi Zhang, Shuaiwei Liu, Zhouliang Tan, Wei Liu, Yuanguang Xia, Wen Yin, Yaqi Liao, Haijin Ji, Yuelin Kong, Yudi Shao, Yunhui Huang, Lixia Yuan
LiFePO4 (LFP) cathodes primarily degrade due to Li+ depletion and Fe (III) phase formation, while preserving their crystal structure, rendering them ideal candidates for direct regeneration. In spent LFP, however,...
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A Universal Self-Triggered Passive Management Strategy for Output Power of Triboelectric Nanogenerator

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 14:45
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00399G, PaperZhenjie Wang, Jianlong Wang, Zheng Yang, Jinzhi Zhu, Peinian Zhang, Xin Yu, Hengyu Li, Yang Yu, Yu Zhang, Zhong Lin Wang, Tinghai Cheng
Power management strategies are crucial for improving the energy utilization efficiency of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG). However, existing strategies are constrained by the instability of external inputs and the static power...
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Buried and Bulk Synergistic Engineering Enable High-Performance Inverted 2D/3D Perovskite Solar Cells

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 04:42
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00156K, PaperZonglong Song, Yu Zou, Yuping Gao, Xingbang Gao, Liu Yang, Hang Liu, Yuting Ma, Rui Wang, Ziyang Hu, Yongsheng Chen, Baomin Xu, Yongsheng Liu
Crystal growth regulation play a key role for fabrication high-quality perovskite films. While surface defects have been extensively studied, optimization of the buried interfaces and bulk properties remains a significant...
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Record thermoelectric figure of merit in Bi1-xSbx achieved by 1-D Landau level quantization

Tue, 04/03/2025 - 12:44
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00253B, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Bin He, Xiaolong Feng, Dong Chen, Federico Serrano, Mohamed Nawwar, Haihua Hu, Urlich Burkhardt, Berit Goodge, Claudia Felser, Joseph P. Heremans, Yu Pan
Landau-level quantization confines electrons to a one-dimensional motion, generating a nearly δ-like energy distribution of the density of states that enhances the Seebeck coefficient and produces a high zT in...
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Simultaneous Integration of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Elastomer in Polymer Donor and Dimer Acceptor Enables Strain-Induced Power Enhancement in Intrinsically-Stretchable Organic Photovoltaics

Fri, 28/02/2025 - 07:45
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00002E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Jin-Woo Lee, Trieu Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Won Jung Kang, Soodeok Seo, Seungbok Lee, Seungjin Lee, Jaeyoung Choi, Jimin Park, Jung-Yong Lee, Taek-Soo Kim, Bumjoon Kim
Intrinsically-stretchable organic solar cells (IS-OSCs) are an emerging class of wearable power sources owing to their ability to stretch in multiple directions. However, their current stretchability remains insufficient to meet...
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Buried Interface Modification for High Performance and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Fri, 28/02/2025 - 07:45
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05466K, PaperYang Cao, Li Yang, Nan Yan, Lanxiang Meng, Xin Chen, JiaFan Zhang, DanYang Qi, Jiacheng Pi, Nan Li, Xiaolong Feng, Chuang Ma, Fengwei Xiao, Guang-Tao Zhao, Shuwen Tan, Xiaoyan Liu, Yucheng Liu, Kui Zhao, Shengzhong Frank Liu, Jiangshan Feng
Defects at the buried interface between of perovskite film and electron transport layer (ETL) are detrimental for both the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs)....
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