Advances and challenges in single-site catalysts towards electrochemical CO2 methanation

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02196C, Review Article
Jiexin Zhu, Lei Lv, Shahid Zaman, Xingbao Chen, Yuhang Dai, Shenghua Chen, Guanjie He, Dingsheng Wang, Liqiang Mai
In this review, we systematically summarizes the activity descriptors of CO2 methanation, the recent advances of SSCs for electrocatalytic CO2 methanation, and in situ characterizations used for tracking the structure change of SSCs during CO2RR.
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New insights into aliovalent substituted halide solid electrolytes for cobalt-free all-solid state batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01119D, Paper
Changhong Wang, Shuo Wang, Xudong Liu, Yanlong Wu, Ruizhi Yu, Hui Duan, Jung Tae Kim, Huan Huang, Jiantao Wang, Yifei Mo, Xueliang Sun
Achieving a balance between lithium ion and vacant site contents plays a crucial role in obtaining optimal ionic conductivity in halide electrolytes, especially with a hexagonal close packing (hcp) anion framework.
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Unveiling coordination transformation for dynamically enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01856C, Paper
Liming Deng, Sung-Fu Hung, Sheng Zhao, Wen-Jing Zeng, Zih-Yi Lin, Feng Hu, Yaoyi Xie, Lijie Yin, Linlin Li, Shengjie Peng
The in situ conversion of Co-based catalysts to Co(OH)2 with oxyanion-coordination induced by MXene dynamically enhances the HER performance. The non-precious metal catalyst demonstrates catalytic activity and stability that exceed benchmark Pt/C.
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Atomically inner tandem catalysts for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02324A, Paper
Yan Liu, Huimei Chen, Yan Yang, Chi Jiao, Wenkun Zhu, Yaping Zhang, Xiaojun Wu, Junjie Mao, Zhiwen Zhuo
A new concept of “inner tandem catalysis” was established to boost the conversion of CO2 into highly reduced products through the directional transfer of adsorbed intermediates instead of the random transfer of CO in traditional tandem catalysis.
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Observation of reversible light degradation in organic photovoltaics induced by long-persistent radicals

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02540C, Paper
Difei Zhang, Chao Liu, Kaicheng Zhang, Yanhua Jia, Wenkai Zhong, Weidong Qiu, Yuanfeng Li, Thomas Heumüller, Karen Forberich, Vincent M. Le Corre, Larry Lüer, Ning Li, Fei Huang, Christoph J. Brabec, Lei Ying
The reversible device performance of organic solar cells is caused by light-induced long-persistent radicals, and can be released with activation energy provided by thermal annealing.
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Solution-processable organic semiconductors with over 220 °C glass transition temperature: manipulating morphology using a helical polycyclic heteroaromatic motif

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02601A, Paper
Lingyi Fang, Yuyan Zhang, Yaohang Cai, Jing Zhang, Yuefang Wei, Yi Yuan, Peng Wang
A triple-helicene-based organic semiconductor was synthesized, with excellent solution-processability and exceptionally high glass temperature. This material excels as a heat-resistant hole transporter in perovskite solar cells.
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Understanding the impact of catholyte flow compartment design on the efficiency of CO2 electrolyzers

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02243A, Paper
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Michael Filippi, Tim Möller, Liang Liang, Peter Strasser
Catholyte flow compartment design impacts the CO2RR product selectivity by influencing gas bubble transport and local pH. According to the hydrodynamic volcano model, an optimal catholyte fluid velocity enables the highest CO2 reduction selectivity.
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Decarbonising electrical grids using photovoltaics with enhanced capacity factors

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,4650-4659
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00633F, Paper
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Cai Williams, Hannes Michaels, Andrew F. Crossland, Zongtai Zhang, Natasha Shirshova, Roderick C. I. MacKenzie, Hongjian Sun, Jeff Kettle, Marina Freitag, Christopher Groves
Here we demonstrate a new concept in PV in which devices are designed to minimize variability in generation. Modelling of the UK energy network predicts that such devices yield greater reductions in carbon emissions than conventional PV technology.
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Grain boundary re-crystallization and sub-nano regions leading to high plateau figure of merit for Bi2Te3 nanoflakes

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02370B, Paper
Wei-Di Liu, Liang-Cao Yin, Lei Li, Qishuo Yang, De-Zhuang Wang, Meng Li, Xiao-Lei Shi, Qingfeng Liu, Yang Bai, Ian Gentle, Lianzhou Wang, Zhi-Gang Chen
Solvothermally synthesized Bi2Te3 nanoflakes can re-crystallize preferentially at the grain boundaries to form sub-nano boundary regions with a width <2 nm leading to a wide plateau figure of merit (zT) of >1.2 (from ∼323 to ∼423 K).
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Synergistic transition metal ion co-doping and multiple functional additive passivation for realizing 25.30% efficiency perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02475J, Paper
Yuting Chen, Qi Wang, Yuqi Yao, Jiewei Yang, Weijian Tang, Wuke Qiu, Yihui Wu, Qiang Peng
Metal ion co-doping and additive-mediation strategies were used to boost the carrier extraction and transportation in a SnO2/perovskite stack, resulting in 25.30% efficiency for perovskite solar cells along with outstanding device stability.
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