Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8670-8682
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE01093K, Paper

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Yunchao Xie, Shichen Xu, Andrew C. Meng, Bujingda Zheng, Zhenru Chen, James M. Tour, Jian Lin
This work presents a rapid in situ synthesis of FeNiCoCrRu high entropy alloy with porous structures via CO₂ laser induction under ambient conditions. FeNiCoCrRu exhibits excellent seawater electrolysis and a superior long duration of >3000 hours.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8457-8481
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03097D, Review Article

Xinyuan Shan, Zhaowei Song, Hang Ding, Lengwan Li, Yuhang Tian, Alexei P. Sokolov, Ming Tian, Kang Xu, Peng-Fei Cao
The high-cation transport number polymer electrolytes (HTPEs) with simultaneously high cation transport number and high ionic conductivity could provide a solution to enable high-performance solid-state batteries.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8801-8809
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03482A, Paper

Zhaohui Yang, Lan Chen, Yijun Yin, Chenyang Wei, Zhimin Xue, Tiancheng Mu
The inhomogeneous valence distribution due to in the intrinsic electric field of a material can weaken the interfacial H-bonding connectivity under the bias potential, which promotes the mass transfer of HMF during the HMF electrooxidation reaction.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8482-8528
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03704A, Review Article

Ligang Wang, Jialu Li, Shufang Ji, Yuli Xiong, Dingsheng Wang
The recent advances in design principles, synthetic strategies, advanced characterization techniques and promising applications of state-of-the-art COF-based SACs/DACs were comprehensively discussed and explored.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8885-8892
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03266G, Paper

Jae Taek Oh, Yongjie Wang, Carmelita Rodà, Debranjan Mandal, Gaurav Kumar, Guy Luke Whitworth, Gerasimos Konstantatos
A post-deposition in situ passivation strategy using a multi-functional molecular agent is reported with enhanced colloidal dispersibility of an environmentally-friendly AgBiS₂ nanocrystal ink, achieving a PCE over 10% in a solar cell.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8734-8744
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02447H, Paper

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Yikui Gao, Jiaqi Liu, Linglin Zhou, Lixia He, Di Liu, Peiyuan Yang, Bingzhe Jin, Zhong Lin Wang, Jie Wang
This work achieves a high-voltage and high-charge energy cycle for TENGs, as well as lossless energy transmission between TENGs and PMCs.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8904-8914
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02871F, Paper

Na Jiang, You Zeng, Qi Yang, Puda Lu, Keqi Qu, Lihang Ye, Xuejun Lu, Ziqiang Liu, Xixian Li, Yongchao Tang, Jinchao Cao, Shimou Chen, Chunyi Zhi, Jieshan Qiu
This work shows that the introduction of interstitial carbon into the MnO₂ lattice could reduce the affinity toward SO₄²⁻ and OH⁻, thus suppressing the surface coverage of ZHS and improving the Zn||MnO₂ battery performance under large loading mass.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8829-8837
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02969K, Paper

Yuanchao Ren, Zizhuo Wang, Jie Chen, Fei Wu, Hengyu Guo
Inspired by the mechanical transmission structure of octave boxes, this work proposes a novel energy regularization triboelectric nanogenerator to effectively convert chaotic wave energy into stable electric output.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8820-8828
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03982C, Paper

Yi Wang, Pu Guo, Jing Zhou, Bing Bai, Yifan Li, Mingrun Li, Pratteek Das, Xianhong Wu, Linjuan Zhang, Yi Cui, Jianping Xiao, Zhong-Shuai Wu
Optimizing the Co pre-oxidation process of Co₃O₄ through geometric reconstruction of F−Co−O active sites significantly enhances the performance for acidic water oxidation.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8893-8903
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02961E, Paper

Yuang Fu, Luhang Xu, Yuhao Li, Emily J. Yang, Yu Guo, Guilong Cai, Pok Fung Chan, Yubin Ke, Chun-Jen Su, U-Ser Jeng, Philip C. Y. Chow, Ji-Seon Kim, Man-Chung Tang, Xinhui Lu
Researchers in CUHK identified isolated non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) domains as the morphological origin of deep electron traps in organic photovoltaics. They showcased effective trap passivation by reducing the fractal dimensions of NFA networks.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8529-8544
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03418J, Perspective

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Andreas Wolf, Felix Nagler, Philip Daubinger, Christoph Neef, Karl Mandel, Andreas Flegler, Guinevere A. Giffin
The market share of low-cost battery chemistries, which offer little to no recycling profitability with current methods, is growing. Design for circularity could be the key to reducing costs and enhancing sustainability for these batteries.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8866-8873
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03705G, Paper

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Wenhan Xu, Fei Yang, Guodong Zhao, Shixian Zhang, Guanchun Rui, Muchen Zhao, Lingling Liu, Long-Qing Chen, Qing Wang
The Anderson localization effect has been exploited in the design of high-temperature dielectric polymers, resulting in reduced conduction loss and outstanding capacitive energy storage performance over a wide temperature range up to 250 °C.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8874-8884
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02777A, Paper

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Ievgen Obraztsov, Rostislav Langer, Jean G. A. Ruthes, Volker Presser, Michal Otyepka, Radek Zbořil, Aristides Bakandritsos
Mesoscale engineering of small organic molecules towards a 3D nanowire network offers a potent toolkit for improved energy storage performance.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8926-8941
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02245A, Paper

Daniela V. Cabrera, Ingrid Adema-Yusta, María J. Santibañez, Crispin Celis, Jefferson W. Tester, Rodrigo A. Labatut
Integrating hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) with anaerobic digestion (AD) and recycling a fraction of the resulting wastewater (AP) in the HTL allows for recovering 85% of the energy contained in the grease waste while reducing its COD to 700 mg L⁻¹.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8756-8775
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03166K, Paper

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Andreas Mühlbauer, Dominik Keiner, Christian Breyer
While a rapid defossilisation of the energy system is the highest priority, additional post-fossil CDR for net-negative emissions will be necessary. Routes for mineralisation (in situ-, ex situ mineralisation, enhanced rock weathering) are examined.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8787-8800
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03002H, Paper

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Jinyu Guo, Matthew J. Liu, Chloe Laguna, Dean M. Miller, Kindle S. Williams, Brandon D. Clark, Carolina Muñoz, Sarah J. Blair, Adam C. Nielander, Thomas F. Jaramillo, William A. Tarpeh
Underutilized wastewaters containing dilute levels of reactive nitrogen (Nr) can help rebalance the nitrogen cycle.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8810-8819
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03521F, Paper

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Airan Li, Longquan Wang, Jiankang Li, Takao Mori
A global softening strategy using stearic acid in MgAgSb to reduce sound velocity has been shown to enhance its thermoelectric performance, achieving high zT values and demonstrating strong potential for low-grade heat harvesting.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8942-8953
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04035J, Paper

Kaixian Li, Siqi Gong, Shaoke Fu, Hengyu Guo, Chuncai Shan, Huiyuan Wu, Jian Wang, Shuyan Xu, Gui Li, Qionghua Zhao, Xue Wang, Chenguo Hu
New channels of dynamic dielectric polarization enabled discharges (DPD) are proposed and combined with electrostatic induction enabled discharges (EID) to achieve charge target collection from different triboelectrification domains.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8954-8965
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03168G, Paper

Yu Cui, Qunping Fan, Hao Feng, Tao Li, Dmitry Yu. Paraschuk, Wei Ma, Han Yan
Interpretable machine learning identifies the causal structure–property relationships and key control factors in block copolymer organic solar cells with excellent power conversion efficiency and thermal stability.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8966-8977
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02815E, Paper

Mi Xu, Beinuo Zhang, Yudong Sang, Dan Luo, Rui Gao, Qianyi Ma, Haozhen Dou, Zhongwei Chen
A bicontinuous-phase electrolyte with a well-balanced solvation sheath is proposed, which delivers fast desolvation kinetics and generates a uniform in situ solid electrolyte interface, thus achieving a long-lasting Zn anode at low temperatures.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04085F, Paper

Zongliang Xie, Zhiyuan Huang, He Li, Tianlei Xu, Haoyu Zhao, Yunfei Wang, Pang Xi, Zhiqiang Cao, Virginia Altoe, Liana M Klivansky, Zaiyu Wang, Steven Shelton, Shiqi Lai, Peng Liu, Chenhui Zhu, Michael D. Connolly, Corie Y. Ralston, Xiaodan Gu, Zongren Peng, Jian Zhang, Yi Liu
High-performance, thermally resilient polymer dielectrics are essential for film capacitors used in advanced electronic devices and renewable energy systems, particularly at elevated temperatures where conventional polymers fail to perform. Compositing...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05020G, Paper

Jiahui Zhou, Jiehui Hu, Xia Zhou, Zhen Shang, Yue Yang, Shengming Xu
Considering the high price and scarcity of cobalt resource, zero-cobalt, high-nickel layered cathode material (LNM) have been considered as the most promising material for next-generation high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However,...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04112G, Paper

Mingxu Zhang, Xinyi Mei, Guoliang Wang, Junming Qiu, Zhimei Sun, Xiaoliang Zhang
Formamidinium lead triiodide perovskite quantum dots (FAPbI3 PQDs) exhibit outstanding optoelectronic characteristics for new-generation solar cells. However, the PQD seriously suffers from surface lattice vacancies and lattice distortion, resulting in...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04078C, Paper

Dechao Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Dedi Li, Shimei Li, Qi Xiong, Zhaodong Huang, Shixun Wang, Hu Hong, Jiaxiong Zhu, Haiming Lyu, Chunyi Zhi
Low salt dissociation and unstable [Li(N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF))x]+ solvent structure in poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)-based solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) remarkably restricts the high throughput ion transport and interfacial stability. Here, we...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02329C, Paper

Gukhyun Lim, Min Kyung Cho, Jaewon Choi, Ke-Jin Zhou, Dongki Shin, Seungyun Jeon, Minhyung Kwon, A-Re Jeon, Jinkwan Choi, Seok Su Sohn, Minah Lee, Jihyun Hong
Exploiting oxygen anion redox in Li-/Mn-rich layered oxides (LMR-NMCs) offers the highest capacity among cathode materials for Li-ion batteries (LIBs). However, its long-term utilization is challenging due to continuous voltage...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04741A, Paper

Jie Yu, Lenan Zhang, Jintong Gao, Wenyu Han, Ruzhu Wang, Zhenyuan Xu
Thermally localized solar evaporation has been recognized as an efficient and suitable pathway for desalination and brine treatment. However, the annoying salt crystallization inside the porous evaporator brings challenges for...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03575E, Review Article

Zhe Liu, Chen Xie, Thomas Heumueller, Iain McCulloch, Christoph J Brabec, Fei Huang, Yong Cao, Ning Li
Over the past decades, organic optoelectronic devices have shown broad application prospects. Due to the solubility property of organic materials, the use of toxic solvent obstacles the device fabrication processing...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02772H, Paper

Shaojie Guo, Mengyu Yan, DongMing Xu, Pan He, Kaijian Yan, Jiexin Zhu, Yongkun Yu, Zeya Peng, Yanzhu Luo, Feifei Cao
Zinc-based batteries, utilizing hydrogel electrolytes, present significant promise as power sources for next-generation flexible devices due to their stretchable nature and enhanced safety features. Nonetheless, the current hydrogel electrolytes require...
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03193H, Paper

Wuchen Xiang, Yiheng Gao, Bobo Yuan, Shuping Xiao, Rui Wu, Yiran Wan, Zhiqiang Liu, Liang Ma, Xiang-Bai Chen, Weijun Ke, Guojia Fang, Pingli Qin
SnO₂ electron transport layers (ETLs) have improved perovskite solar cell (PSC) efficiencies but face issues with surface protonation, leading to energy loss and instability. We developed ultra-small (2.5 nm) SnO₂...
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