Trade-off between H2O-rich and H2O-poor electric double layers enables highly reversible Zn anodes in aqueous Zn-ion batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00147H, Paper
Kaiwen Qi, Pengrui Liang, Shiqiang Wei, Huaisheng Ao, Xuan Ding, Shiyuan Chen, Zhechen Fan, Chengming Wang, Li Song, Xiaojun Wu, Changzheng Wu, Yongchun Zhu
Trade-off between H2O-rich and H2O-poor EDLs to balance dead Zn and dendrites and side reactions, realizing highly reversible Zn anodes.
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Synergistically optimizing the optoelectronic properties and morphology using a photo-active solid additive for high-performance binary organic photovoltaics

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04065H, Paper
Mengting Wang, Tianyi Chen, Yaokai Li, Guanyu Ding, Zeng Chen, Jikun Li, Chang Xu, Adiljan Wupur, Chenran Xu, Yuang Fu, Jingwei Xue, Weifei Fu, Weiming Qiu, Xi Yang, Dawei Wang, Wei Ma, Xinhui Lu, Haiming Zhu, Xiankai Chen, Xiaoye Wang, Hongzheng Chen, Lijian Zuo
This work explores a new solid additive with TADF properties for high-performance OPVs. The TADF additive fine-tunes the morphology and enhances exciton diffusion and dissociation, resulting in an efficiency of 19.4%, making it one of the top binary OPVs.
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Ultra-stability and high output performance of a sliding mode triboelectric nanogenerator achieved by an asymmetric electrode structure design

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04253G, Paper
Gui Li, Jian Wang, Yue He, Shuyan Xu, Shaoke Fu, Chuncai Shan, Huiyuan Wu, Shanshan An, Kaixian Li, Wen Li, Ping Wang, Chenguo Hu
A new type of sliding-TENG with asymmetric electrode design achieves high output performance and ultra-stability by the balance of electrostatic shielding and charge accumulation for providing power supply to some electrical devices.
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Modeling diurnal and annual ethylene generation from solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction devices

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00545G, Paper
Kyra M. K. Yap, William J. Wei, Melanie Rodríguez Pabón, Alex J. King, Justin C. Bui, Lingze Wei, Sang-Won Lee, Adam Z. Weber, Alexis T. Bell, Adam C. Nielander, Thomas F. Jaramillo
Integrated solar fuels devices for CO2 reduction (CO2R) are a promising technology class towards reducing CO2 emissions.
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Realizing high-performance thermoelectric modules through enhancing the power factor via optimizing the carrier mobility in n-type PbSe crystals

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00433G, Paper
Siqi Wang, Yi Wen, Shulin Bai, Zhe Zhao, Yichen Li, Xiang Gao, Qian Cao, Cheng Chang, Li-Dong Zhao
The thermoelectric properties of n-type PbSe are enhanced by optimizing the power factor through crystal growth and slight-tuning vacancy and interstitial defects.
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A cyano cobalt “electron transfer bridge” boosting the two-electron reaction of a MnO2 cathode with long lifespan in aqueous zinc batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03711H, Paper
Yaozhi Liu, Lu Lin, Tengsheng Zhang, Zhiqing Xue, Jie Liu, Dongliang Chao, Xiaoqi Sun
An electron transfer bridge based on Mn–NC–Co interactions is applied for a MnO2 cathode to boost its reversible two-electron reaction in conventional zinc cells.
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Designing dithieno-benzodithiophene-based small molecule donors for thickness-tolerant and large-scale polymer solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04300B, Paper
Shanshan Wang, Lin-Yong Xu, Bo Xiao, Mingxia Chen, Meimei Zhang, Wei Gao, Biao Xiao, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Renqiang Yang, Jie Min, Rui Sun
The small molecule donor SD62-doping strategy with an excellent universality is beneficial to fabricating thickness-tolerant and large-scale high-performance polymer solar cells and solar modules.
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Intrinsic carbon structure modification overcomes the challenge of potassium bond chemistry

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00438H, Review Article
Xijun Wei, Yuyang Yi, Xiaozhi Yuan, Yu Liu, Qi Wan, Guangjun Gou, Yunhuai Zhang, Guangmin Zhou, Yingze Song
Heteroatom doping engineering is widely used to modify the physical/chemical properties of carbon anodes, which can regulate the electronic structure and interface state to regulate the potassium bond to improve potassium storage performance.
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Light-induced quinone conformation of polymer donors toward 19.9% efficiency organic solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00605D, Paper
Chuanhang Guo, Yuandong Sun, Liang Wang, Chenhao Liu, Chen Chen, Jingchao Cheng, Weiyi Xia, Zirui Gan, Jing Zhou, Zhenghong Chen, Jinpeng Zhou, Dan Liu, Jingxing Guo, Wei Li, Tao Wang
UV-light illumination converts the aromatic conformation of polymer donors into a rigid quinone structure, resulting in compact fibrillar aggregation of the active layer to achieve a maximum efficiency of 19.9% of single-junction organic solar cells.
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More is better: high-entropy electrolyte design in rechargeable batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03821A, Review Article
Xin Zhao, Zhiqiang Fu, Xiang Zhang, Xia Wang, Baohua Li, Dong Zhou, Feiyu Kang
This review conducts a comprehensive survey of the high-entropy effect on the key properties of electrolytes. The applications of high-entropy electrolytes in various rechargeable batteries are presented to address their critical drawbacks.
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