Atomically dispersed Co2+ in a redox-active COF for electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethanol: unravelling mechanistic insight through operando studies

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2315-2325
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02946H, Paper
Ashish Singh, Soumitra Barman, Faruk Ahamed Rahimi, Anupam Dey, Rohan Jena, Ravi Kumar, Nijita Mathew, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya, Tapas Kumar Maji
Designing cheap, stable, and efficient electrocatalysts for selective CO2 reduction to ethanol is a green and sustainable approach for converting the greenhouse gas into value-added products.
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A nature-inspired solution for water management in flow fields for electrochemical devices

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2007-2017
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03666A, Paper
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Panagiotis Trogadas, Jason I. S. Cho, Lara Rasha, Xuekun Lu, Nikolay Kardjilov, Henning Markötter, Ingo Manke, Paul R. Shearing, Dan J. L. Brett, Marc-Olivier Coppens
A nature-inspired solution for water management in flow fields for electrochemical devices.
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The role of dispatchability in China’s power system decarbonization

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2193-2205
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04293F, Paper
Mingquan Li, Rui Shan, Ahmed Abdulla, Edgar Virguez, Shuo Gao
The role of dispatchable resources evolves over space and over time as the power sector decarbonizes; this evolution reconfigures the spatial layout of China's power system, eventually redrawing its economic, social, and environmental maps.
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Theoretical modeling of contact-separation mode triboelectric nanogenerators from initial charge distribution

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2228-2247
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04143C, Paper
Hongfa Zhao, Hao Wang, Hongyong Yu, Qinghao Xu, Xiaosa Li, Jing Guo, Jiajia Shao, Zhong Lin Wang, Minyi Xu, Wenbo Ding
A systematic theoretical analysis for contact-separation mode TENGs is presented, including theoretical models, analysis methods, validation approaches, and extended analysis for applications.
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Updated perspective on solar steam generation application

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2088-2099
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04073A, Perspective
Casey Onggowarsito, Shudi Mao, Xin Stella Zhang, An Feng, Haolan Xu, Qiang Fu
This perspective highlights the challenges and opportunities in interfacial evaporation, heat and water management, materials synthesis, and device development for solar steam generation.
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Unifying electrolyte formulation and electrode nanoconfinement design to enable new ion–solvent cointercalation chemistries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2100-2116
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04350A, Perspective
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Haocheng Guo, Mennatalla Elmanzalawy, Prashanth Sivakumar, Simon Fleischmann
Cointercalation reactions, of particular interest for emerging battery cell chemistries, are more effectively controlled when matching electrolyte formulation with nanoconfinement properties within the interlayer space of host materials.
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Triple-junction perovskite–perovskite–silicon solar cells with power conversion efficiency of 24.4%

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03687A, Paper
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Hang Hu, Sophie X. An, Yang Li, Seyedamir Orooji, Roja Singh, Fabian Schackmar, Felix Laufer, Qihao Jin, Thomas Feeney, Alexander Diercks, Fabrizio Gota, Somayeh Moghadamzadeh, Ting Pan, Michael Rienäcker, Robby Peibst, Bahram Abdollahi Nejand, Ulrich W. Paetzold
Key advances on triple-junction perovskite–perovskite–Si solar cells with an unprecedented efficiency of 24.4% and enhanced long-term thermal stability are reported via the development of high-performance middle perovskite solar cell.
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Ultrathin dense LiF coverage coupled with a near-surface gradient fluorination lattice enables fast-charging long-life 4.6 V LiCoO2

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03464J, Paper
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Zhihong Bi, Zonglin Yi, Liangzhu Zhang, Gongrui Wang, Anping Zhang, Shihao Liao, Qinghe Zhao, Zhangquan Peng, Li Song, Yi Wang, Zhiwei Zhao, Shiqiang Wei, Wenguang Zhao, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingrun Li, Na Ta, Jinxing Mi, Shunning Li, Pratteek Das, Yi Cui, Chengmeng Chen, Feng Pan, Zhong-Shuai Wu
Schematic diagram of the fluorination interfacial reconstruction process and mechanism for stabilizing the cathode/electrolyte interface.
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Thermal battery cost scaling analysis: minimizing the cost per kW h

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2206-2218
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03594H, Paper
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Jordan D. Kocher, Jason Woods, Adewale Odukomaiya, Allison Mahvi, Shannon K. Yee
Thermal and cost-scaling analyses provide the tools to optimize the geometry of thermal batteries based on cost. Figures-of-merit comprised of storage material properties are derived as the quantities that should be maximized when different components dominate cost.
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Radiative sky cooling thermal concentration with cooling power exceeding one kW per square meter

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2336-2355
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03214K, Paper
Primož Poredoš, He Shan, Chenxi Wang, Zhihui Chen, Zhao Shao, Fangfang Deng, Haoran Liu, Jiaqi Yu, Ruzhu Wang
This study investigated cooling energy thermal concentration using radiative sky cooling materials coated on a thermally conductive substrate. We achieved 2000 W m−2 during nighttime and 1000 W m−2 during daytime, paving the way for low-carbon thermal management.
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