Organic photo-battery with high operating voltage using a multi-junction organic solar cell and an organic redox-polymer-based battery

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01822A, Paper
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Rodrigo Delgado Andrés, Robin Wessling, Jan Büttner, Leonie Pap, Anna Fischer, Birgit Esser, Uli Würfel
Development of a first of its kind monolithically integrated photo-battery, capable of photo-charging within minutes and a discharge voltage of 3.6 V with all-organic active materials.
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Origins of hydrogen peroxide selectivity during oxygen reduction on organic mixed ionic-electronic conducting polymers

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02102E, Paper
Ana De La Fuente Durán, Allen Yu-Lun Liang, Ilaria Denti, Hang Yu, Drew Pearce, Adam Marks, Emily Penn, Jeremy Treiber, Karrie Weaver, Lily Turaski, Iuliana P Maria, Sophie Griggs, Xingxing Chen, Alberto Salleo, William C Chueh, Jenny Nelson, Alexander Giovannitti, J. Tyler Mefford
Electrochemical reduction of atmospheric oxygen provides carbon emission-free pathways for the generation of electricity from chemical fuels and for the distributed production of green chemical oxidants like hydrogen peroxide. Recently,...
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Engineering a deficient-coordinated single-atom indium electrocatalyst for fast redox conversion in practical 500 W h kg−1-level pouch lithium–sulfur batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02675B, Paper
Yang Guo, Zhaoqing Jin, Jianhao Lu, Lei Wei, Weikun Wang, Yaqin Huang, Anbang Wang
SAIn@CNT with defect coordination enhances the interaction with LiPSs and weakens the bond energy in LiPSs, which resulted in the reduction of the conversion activation energy. Thus, the battery is endowed with remarkable electrochemical performance.
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The intrinsic conductivity as an indicator for better thermoelectrics

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02167J, Paper
Chaoliang Hu, Ziheng Gao, Min Zhang, Shen Han, Chenguang Fu, Tiejun Zhu
Searching for high-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials has long been a focused theme. Here, the intrinsic conductivity σ0 is proposed as a simple indicator to evaluate the intrinsic electrical performance of...
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Alternate heterogeneous superlattice control of lattice strain to stabilize Li-rich cathode

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01318A, Paper
Ying Zhang, Xiaoyu Shi, Shuanghao Zheng, Yuguo Ouyang, Mingrun Li, Caixia Meng, Yan Yu, Zhong-Shuai Wu
A strain-alleviating strategy was developed by creating a layered-spinel alternate heterostructure for LROs, resulting in a 3D channel for lithium-ion diffusion which was capable of reducing structural strain during the intercalation/deintercalation of Li+, thereby enhancing dynamic stability.
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Ion irradiation to control size, composition and dispersion of metal nanoparticle exsolution

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02448B, Paper
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Jiayue Wang, Kevin B. Woller, Abinash Kumar, Zhan Zhang, Hua Zhou, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Adrian Hunt, James M LeBeau, Bilge Yildiz
Nano-engineered oxides play a frontier role in the development of next-generation catalysts and microelectronics. Recently, metal exsolution from oxides has emerged as a promising nano-structuring tool to fabricate nanoparticle-decorated oxides....
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Solar evaporation with solute replacement towards real-world applications

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02592F, Paper
Zhenyuan Xu, Jie Yu, He Shan, Jiebing Wang, Jintong Gao, Zhanyu Ye, Ruzhu Wang
Solar evaporation with solute replacement enables the evaporation of a variety of source solutions towards real-world applications, via the decoupling of heat and mass transport pathways.
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In situ SnSe deposition as passivation for scalable and stable quasi-2D lead–tin perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02507A, Paper
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Lijun Chen, Eelco Kinsa Tekelenburg, Kushagra Gahlot, Matteo Pitaro, Jun Xi, Alessia Lasorsa, Giovanna Feraco, Loredana Protesescu, Patrick C. A. van der Wel, Giuseppe Portale, Petra Rudolf, Christoph J. Brabec, Maria Antonietta Loi
A novel in situ SnSe deposition strategy is proposed to reduce non-radiative recombination and enhance surface crystallization for scalable and stable quasi-2D Ruddlesden–Popper (RP) lead–tin perovskite solar cells.
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Multifunctional solid additive enables all-polymer solar cells with improved efficiency, photostability and mechanical durability

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02953K, Paper
Jiali Song, Linglong Ye, Chunhui Liu, Yunhao Cai, Chen Zhang, GuiChu Yue, Yun Li, Min Hun Jee, Yong Zhao, Donghui Wei, Han Young Woo, Yanming Sun
A series of novel non-volatile DTC solid additives with a long flexible alkyl chain were designed and synthesized to improve the efficiency, photostability and mechanical durability of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs).
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Manipulating charge-transfer kinetics and flow-domain LiF-rich interphase to enable high-performance microsized silicon-silver-carbon composite anode for solid-state batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01696J, Paper
Xiang Han, Lanhui Gu, Zhefei Sun, Minfeng Chen, Yinggan Zhang, Linshan Luo, Min Xu, Songyan Chen, Haodong Liu, Jiayu Wan, Yanbing He, Jizhang Chen, Qiaobao Zhang
Silicon (Si) anode with high theoretical specific capacity (3579 mAh g−1) offers great promise for realizing high-energy solid-state batteries (SSBs). However, given Si’s huge volume variations during cycling, sluggish kinetics...
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