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Highly reversible tin redox chemistry for stable anode-free acidic proton battery Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Zuhao Yu, Qiong Wang, Yating Li, Fengyi Zhang, Xiaohui Ma, Xi Zhang, Yonggang Wang, Jianhang Huang, Yongyao Xia
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Technological roadmap for potassium-ion hybrid capacitors Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Shuoqing Zhao, Guohao Li, Bohan Zhang, Tianming Li, Mingchuan Luo, Bing Sun, Guoxiu Wang, Shaojun Guo
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Grain-boundary grooves in perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Mingwei Hao, Yuanyuan Zhou
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Decarbonizing the media, broadcast, and streaming industry Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Mohit Arora, Iain McClenaghan
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Grain orientation management and recombination suppression for ultra-stable PeLEDs with record brightness Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Zhiqi Li, Zhiwei Ren, Qiong Liang, Patrick W.K. Fong, Heng Liu, Xinhui Lu, Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Gang Li
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Evolutionary manufacturing approaches for advancing flexible perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jieqiong Liu, Dexu Zheng, Kai Wang, Zhipeng Li, Shengzhong Liu, Lei Peng, Dong Yang
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Unveiling transport mechanisms of cesium and water in operando zero-gap CO2 electrolyzers Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Bjørt Óladóttir Joensen, José A. Zamora Zeledón, Lena Trotochaud, Andrea Sartori, Marta Mirolo, Asger Barkholt Moss, Sahil Garg, Ib Chorkendorff, Jakub Drnec, Brian Seger, Qiucheng Xu
In zero-gap CO electrolyzers, maintaining the balance of water and cations is crucial. Excessive accumulation at the cathode causes performance degradation, leading to flooding and salt precipitation. Using wide-angle X-ray scattering and X-ray fluorescence techniques, we observed the dynamic evolution of HO and Cs inside a membrane electrode assembly. Our findings indicate that Cs movement across
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A global statistical assessment of designing silicon-based solar cells for geographical markets Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Hesan Ziar
Here, we first visualize the achievable global efficiency for single-junction crystalline silicon cells and demonstrate how different regional markets have radically varied requirements for Si wafer thickness and injection level. Our findings showed that 219 g/kW of polysilicon can be conserved while producing slightly more electricity when c- Si cells are manufactured based on the global geographical
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Ordering one-dimensional chains enables efficient selenium photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Wenbo Lu, Mingjie Feng, Zongbao Li, Bin Yan, Shuo Wang, Xin Wen, Xiaoyan An, Shunchang Liu, Jin-Song Hu, Ding-Jiang Xue
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Discovery of the Zintl-phosphide BaCd2P2 as a long carrier lifetime and stable solar absorber Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Zhenkun Yuan, Diana Dahliah, Muhammad Rubaiat Hasan, Gideon Kassa, Andrew Pike, Shaham Quadir, Romain Claes, Cierra Chandler, Yihuang Xiong, Victoria Kyveryga, Philip Yox, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Ismaila Dabo, Andriy Zakutayev, David P. Fenning, Obadiah G. Reid, Sage Bauers, Jifeng Liu, Kirill Kovnir, Geoffroy Hautier
Thin-film photovoltaics (PV) offers a path to decarbonize global energy production. Unfortunately, existing thin-film solar absorbers have major issues associated with either elemental abundance, stability, or performance. Entirely new and disruptive materials platforms are rarely discovered, and their search is traditionally slow and serendipitous. Here, we report a first-principles high-throughput
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Alkaline electrolyzers: Powering industries and overcoming fundamental challenges Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nicolas Dubouis, David Aymé-Perrot, Damien Degoulange, Alexis Grimaud, Hubert Girault
For the sustainable development of the renewable hydrogen sector, alkaline electrolysis appears to be a technology of choice. Nevertheless, despite its long history that showed its reliability in the industrial field and despite the traditional belief from the scientific community, alkaline electrolyzer technology still requires optimization to meet the new challenges imposed by the deployment of large
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Large-area organic photovoltaic modules with 14.5% certified world record efficiency Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Robin Basu, Fabian Gumpert, Jan Lohbreier, Pierre-Olivier Morin, Varun Vohra, Yang Liu, Yinhua Zhou, Christoph J. Brabec, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, Andreas Distler
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Best practices for evaluating the performance of thermoelectric devices Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Raju Chetty, Jayachandran Babu, Takao Mori
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Considering technology characteristics to project future costs of direct air capture Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Katrin Sievert, Tobias S. Schmidt, Bjarne Steffen
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Non-laser and all-vapor-phase processed perovskite solar modules stabilized by naturally formed barrier layers Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Dongrui Jiang, Zheng Liu, Jinzhao Li, Huanqi Cao, Yicheng Qian, Zhixin Ren, Shifu Zhang, Yuan Qiu, Chao Zhang, Junfeng Wei, Liying Yang, Shougen Yin
In perovskite solar modules (PSMs) patterned by laser scribing, perovskite and electrode materials directly contact at the scribed edges, resulting in rapid decomposition due to the interdiffusion of atoms at the contact. We develop a non-laser additive method for manufacturing PSMs, in which an adjustable wire mask (AWM) was used to form the channels that were traditionally scribed by lasers. All
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The EU additionality rule does not guarantee additionality Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Johannes Schmidt, Sebastian Wehrle, Olga Turkovska, Peter Regner
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Designing interphases for highly reversible aqueous zinc batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Glenn R. Pastel, Travis P. Pollard, Qian Liu, Sydney Lavan, Qijia Zhu, Rongzhong Jiang, Lin Ma, Justin Connell, Oleg Borodin, Marshall A. Schroeder, Zhengcheng Zhang, Kang Xu
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The resource demands of multi-terawatt-scale perovskite tandem photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Lukas Wagner, Jiajia Suo, Bowen Yang, Dmitry Bogachuk, Estelle Gervais, Robert Pietzcker, Andrea Gassmann, Jan Christoph Goldschmidt
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Materials and chemistry design for low-temperature all-solid-state batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Pushun Lu, Zhimin Zhou, Zuxiang Xiao, Jiaze Lu, Jiaxu Zhang, Guantai Hu, Wenlin Yan, Shengjie Xia, Shutao Zhang, Ziqing Wang, Hong Li, Changhong Wang, Fan Wu, Xueliang Sun
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) have garnered significant interest due to their exceptional safety features and high theoretical energy density. Despite extensive research demonstrating the impressive electrochemical performance of ASSBs at moderate and high temperatures, their electrochemical performance significantly degrades in a cold environment, with the underlying mechanism yet to be disclosed
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Silicon heterojunction solar cells achieving 26.6% efficiency on commercial-size p-type silicon wafer Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Xiaoning Ru, Miao Yang, Shi Yin, Yichun Wang, Chengjian Hong, Fuguo Peng, Yunlai Yuan, Chang Sun, Chaowei Xue, Minghao Qu, Jianbo Wang, Junxiong Lu, Liang Fang, Hao Deng, Tian Xie, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu, Zhenguo Li, Xixiang Xu
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A roadmap for tandem photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Kirstin Alberi, Joseph J. Berry, Jacob J. Cordell, Daniel J. Friedman, John F. Geisz, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Bryon W. Larson, William E. McMahon, Lorelle M. Mansfield, Paul F. Ndione, Michael Owen-Bellini, Axel F. Palmstrom, Matthew O. Reese, Samantha B. Reese, Myles A. Steiner, Adele C. Tamboli, San Theingi, Emily L. Warren
Combining two or more junctions into a tandem solar cell promises to deliver a leap in power conversion efficiency that will help to sustain continued growth in installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity. Although tandems are now on the roadmaps of many PV manufacturers, much work remains before they are ready for mass deployment. Accelerating their development requires advances on many fronts. In this article
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Unlocking solar-driven synergistic clean water harvesting and sustainable fuel production Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Shuai Guo, Swee Ching Tan
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Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells with ionomerless cathodes Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Tao Yang, Zhixiang Chen, Yongchao Yang, Shenlong Zhao
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Nanoscale science for terawatt/gigaton scale performance of clean energy technologies Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Dirk C. Jordan, Steven C. Hayden, Nancy M. Haegel, Paul Veers, Shaun Alia, Teresa Barnes, Ashley Gaulding, Katherine L. Jungjohann
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Photovoltaic-sorbent system for water and electricity generation Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Zhao Shao, Primož Poredoš, Ruzhu Wang
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Technoeconomic analysis of small modular reactors decarbonizing industrial process heat Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Max Vanatta, Deep Patel, Todd Allen, Daniel Cooper, Michael T. Craig
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Three-dimensional multi-layer carbon tube electrodes for AC line-filtering capacitors Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Gan Chen, Fangming Han, Dou Lin, Shiping Zhang, Qijun Pan, Cheng Shao, Zhaoming Wang, Xiaoguang Zhu, Guowen Meng, Bingqing Wei
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Cradle-to-cradle recycling in terawatt photovoltaics: A vision of perpetual utility Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ian Marius Peters, Jens Hauch, Christoph Brabec
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Nonaqueous electrolytes for reversible zinc electrodeposition for dynamic windows with excellent optical contrast and durability Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nikhil C. Bhoumik, Desmond C. Madu, Cheon Woo Moon, Lorenzo S. Arvisu, Michael D. McGehee, Christopher J. Barile
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Enhanced passivation durability in perovskite solar cells via concentration-independent passivators Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sisi Wang, Canglang Yao, Lun Li, Tianyi Huang, Shaun Tan, Pengju Shi, Shiyin Jin, Chenhui Zhu, Yang Yang, Bowen Zhu, Jingjing Xue, Rui Wang
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Heat pumps for all? Distributions of the costs and benefits of residential air-source heat pumps in the United States Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Eric J.H. Wilson, Prateek Munankarmi, Brennan D. Less, Janet L. Reyna, Stacey Rothgeb
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Revealing the potential of luminescent solar concentrators in real-world environments Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tomi K. Baikie, Benjamin Daiber, Emil Kensington, James Xiao, Neil C. Greenham, Bruno Ehrler, Akshay Rao
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices that concentrate light using a transparent matrix doped with chromophores. LSCs have the potential to outperform other concentration technologies due to their ability to concentrate diffuse light and reshape the solar spectrum to match the optimum spectral characteristics for photovoltaics. This study compares different LSC technologies, including
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Utilizing electrostatic dynamic bonds in zwitterion elastomer for self-curing of flexible perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Yaohua Wang, Yuanyuan Meng, Chang Liu, Ruikun Cao, Bin Han, Lisha Xie, Ruijia Tian, Xiaoyi Lu, Zhenhua Song, Jun Li, Shuncheng Yang, Congda Lu, Ziyi Ge
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Design of efficient, reliable, and wide-band filter electrochemical capacitors via matching positive with negative electrodes Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Chenxiang Wang, Samantha Vi-Tang, Sheng Qu, Zirong He, Bosi Peng, Xueying Chang, Zhiyin Yang, Cheng-Wei Lin, Yuto Katsuyama, Sophia Uemura, Maher F. El-Kady, Richard B. Kaner
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Managed spatial strain uniformity for efficient perovskite photovoltaics enables minimized energy deficit Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Qiu Xiong, Xiaofeng Huang, Can Wang, Qin Zhou, Yong Gang, Tinghao Li, Chongzhu Hu, Ni Zhang, Xiaobing Wang, Jihuai Wu, Zhenhuang Su, Xingyu Gao, Xin Li, Nanfeng Zheng, Peng Gao
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Electrochemical chlor-iron process for iron production from iron oxide and salt water Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Berkley B. Noble, Anastasiia Konovalova, Louka J. Moutarlier, Valerie Brogden, Paul A. Kempler
The iron and steel industry accounts for ∼8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Electrochemical reduction of iron ore to metal for electric arc furnaces can enable sustainable steel production, but existing electrochemical processes require expensive capital or electrolytes. We report a low-temperature, electrochemical cell that consumes low-cost and abundant iron oxide and aqueous sodium chloride
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Organic and hybrid thermoelectrics are maturing, but not yet a market Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jeffrey J. Urban
Download : Download high-res image (179KB) Download : Download full-size image Jeffrey J. Urban is a Facility Director of Inorganic Nanostructures at the Molecular Foundry and Senior Scientist in the Molecular Foundry Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned his PhD at Harvard studying scaling laws in phase transitions in correlated electron materials and completed postdoctoral
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Smart batteries for powering the future Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Qianqian Meng, Yongxin Huang, Li Li, Feng Wu, Renjie Chen
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A rechargeable, non-aqueous manganese metal battery enabled by electrolyte regulation Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Dongyang Shen, Xinhua Zheng, Ruihao Luo, Taoli Jiang, Mingming Wang, Mingying Zhang, Qia Peng, Li Song, Shiming Zhou, Zhiguo Hou, Yitai Qian, Wei Chen
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Do all good things really come in threes? The true potential of 3-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell strings Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Miha Kikelj, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Jonas Geissbühler, Florent Sahli, Damien Lachenal, Derk Baetzner, Benjamin Lipovšek, Marko Topič, Christophe Ballif, Quentin Jeangros, Bertrand Paviet-Salomon
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Assessing the potential of decarbonization options for industrial sectors Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ahmed Gailani, Sam Cooper, Stephen Allen, Andrew Pimm, Peter Taylor, Robert Gross
Industry emits around a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper presents the first comprehensive review to identify the main decarbonization options for this sector and their abatement potentials. First, we identify the important GHG emitting processes and establish a global average baseline for their current emissions intensity and energy use. We then quantify the energy and emissions
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A 110 Wh kg−1 Ah-level anode-free sodium battery at −40°C Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Qiaonan Zhu, Dandan Yu, Jiangchun Chen, Liwei Cheng, Mengyao Tang, Yingyu Wang, Yuting Li, Jie Yang, Hua Wang
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Accelerating the net-zero economy with CO2-hydrogenated formic acid production: Process development and pilot plant demonstration Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Changsoo Kim, Kwangho Park, Hyeonggeon Lee, Jaehyung Im, Denis Usosky, Kyungjae Tak, Damdae Park, Wonsuk Chung, Donggu Han, Jieun Yoon, Heewon Lee, Hyunyoung Kim, Margareth, Juyeong Jung, Da Hye Won, Chun-Jae Yoo, Ki Bong Lee, Kwang-Deog Jung, Ung Lee
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19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Kerui Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang, Guangliu Ran, Feng Liu, Wenkai Zhang, Xiaozhang Zhu
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Open circuit potential decay transients quantify interfacial pH swings during high current density hydrogen electrocatalysis Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ethan R. Sauvé, Bryan Y. Tang, Neil K. Razdan, Wei Lun Toh, Sophia Weng, Yogesh Surendranath
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Mass-efficient catalyst layer of hierarchical sub-nanosheets on nanowire for practical proton exchange membrane electrolyzer Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Lu Tao, Fan Lv, Dawei Wang, Heng Luo, Fangxu Lin, Hongyu Gong, Hongtian Mi, Shuguang Wang, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Mingchuan Luo, Shaojun Guo
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Practical high-energy aqueous zinc-bromine static batteries enabled by synergistic exclusion-complexation chemistry Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Chen Xu, Chengjun Lei, Pengjie Jiang, Wei Yang, Wenjiao Ma, Xin He, Xiao Liang
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Plastic inorganic thermoelectric materials Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Pengfei Qiu, Tingting Deng, Lidong Chen, Xun Shi
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Salinity gradient energy is not a competitive source of renewable energy Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Shihong Lin, Zhangxin Wang, Li Wang, Menachem Elimelech
In this perspective, we critically assess the competitiveness of salinity gradient energy (SGE) as a renewable energy source. While scientifically intriguing and gaining research attention, SGE encounters formidable challenges in competing with established renewable technologies, such as solar and wind energy. Even the most advanced SGE technology, pressure retarded osmosis, remains far from cost competitive
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Photocatalytic biomass conversion for hydrogen and renewable carbon-based chemicals Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Min Wang, Hongru Zhou, Feng Wang
Biomass is a renewable hydrogen and carbon source, and it is of interest to use as a sustainable resource. Solar-driven photocatalysis has been recognized as a potentially feasible technology for the extraction of hydrogen from biomass to produce molecular hydrogen. Traditionally the carbon content in biomass has been degraded to carbon dioxide, but increasing efforts aim to produce value-added carbon
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Soil organic carbon change can reduce the climate benefits of biofuel produced from forest residues Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Kai Lan, Bingquan Zhang, Tessa Lee, Yuan Yao
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Chemical bond engineering toward extraordinary power factor and service stability in thermoelectric copper selenide Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Haihua Hu, Bin Su, Xiaodong Liu, Hao-Cheng Thong, Yilin Jiang, Hezhang Li, Jing-Wei Li, Hua-Lu Zhuang, Zhanran Han, Jincheng Yu, B. Layla Mehdi, Jing-Feng Li
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Heterogeneous catalysis via light-heat dual activation: A path to the breakthrough in C1 chemistry Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Bingqiao Xie, Di Hu, Priyank Kumar, Vitaly V. Ordomsky, Andrei Y. Khodakov, Rose Amal
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High with low: Harnessing the power of demand-side solutions for high wellbeing with low energy and material demand Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Masahiro Sugiyama, Charlie Wilson, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Benigna Boza-Kiss, Tao Cao, Joyee S. Chatterjee, Souran Chatterjee, Takuya Hara, Ayami Hayashi, Yiyi Ju, Volker Krey, María Fernanda Godoy León, Luis Martinez, Eric Masanet, Alessio Mastrucci, Jihoon Min, Leila Niamir, Setu Pelz, Joyashree Roy, Yamina Saheb, Roberto Schaeffer, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Bas van Ruijven, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Elena Verdolini
The authors are all devoted energy system and sustainability transformation scholars, who collaborate regularly and actively at global and local levels to advance the knowledge space of demand-side solutions and policies. They are members of a growing bottom-up initiative, the Energy Demand Changes Induced by Technological and Social Innovations (EDITS) network (https://iiasa.ac.at/projects/edits)
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A new insight into the mechanism of hydrogen spillover Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Jie Yan, Junzhong Xie, Ding Ma
In a recent issue of Nature Catalysis, Chandler and colleagues demonstrate that hydrogen spillover on Au/TiO2 is entropy driven and pose that the only real requirement of spillover for the catalyst is to stabilize both protons and electrons. This study gives a new insight into the mechanism for hydrogen spillover.
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Micelle-like bulk structure of localized high-concentration electrolytes Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Ankit Verma, Maxwell C. Schulze, Andrew Colclasure
In the recent article by Efaw et al.1 published in Nature Materials, a unique micelle-like bulk structure of localized high-concentration electrolytes (LHCEs) is revealed to provide beneficial characteristics with respect to solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) stability on lithium metal anodes. This work adds to the pertinent discussions on design rules of LHCE, providing tangible guidelines for its
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A temperature-dependent solvating electrolyte for wide-temperature and fast-charging lithium metal batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Mingming Fang, Xinyang Yue, Yongteng Dong, Yuanmao Chen, Zheng Liang
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Fast-charge, long-duration storage in lithium batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Shuo Jin, Xiaosi Gao, Shifeng Hong, Yue Deng, Pengyu Chen, Rong Yang, Yong Lak Joo, Lynden A. Archer
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A digital twin to overcome long-time challenges in photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Larry Lüer, Ian Marius Peters, Ana Sunčana Smith, Eva Dorschky, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Frauke Liers, Jörg Franke, Martin Sjarov, Matthias Brossog, Dirk M. Guldi, Andreas Maier, Christoph J. Brabec
The recent successes of emerging photovoltaics (PVs) are largely driven by innovations in material science. However, closing the gap to commercialization still requires significant progress to match contradicting requirements, such as performance, longevity, and recyclability. In this perspective, we envision the layout of a digital twin for PV materials able to provide the necessary acceleration of
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Achieving 19.4% organic solar cell via an in situ formation of p-i-n structure with built-in interpenetrating network Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ying Zhang, Wanyuan Deng, Christopher E. Petoukhoff, Xinxin Xia, Yongwen Lang, Hao Xia, Hua Tang, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Sudhi Mahadevan, Kuan Liu, Patrick W.K. Fong, Yongmin Luo, Jiaying Wu, Sai-Wing Tsang, Frédéric Laquai, Hongbin Wu, Xinhui Lu, Yang Yang, Gang Li