Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00278H, Paper Chun Wu, Yunrui Yang, Yifan Li, Xiangxi He, Yinghao Zhang, Wenjie Huang, Qinghang Chen, Xiaohao Liu, Shuangqiang Chen, Qinfen Gu, Lin Li, Sean C. Smith, Xin Tan, Yan Yu, Xingqiao Wu, Shulei Chou The electrochemical performance of hard carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries is primarily determined by the microstructure of materials, and the challenge lies in establishing structure-performance relationship at molecular level. So... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00485C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yi Yuan, Zixuan Li, Rongyu Deng, Shengda D. Pu, Marc Walker, Mingzhi Cai, Feixiang Wu, Peter G. Bruce, Alex Robertson Zn-ion batteries for practical applications face several challenges, some of which arise from the inevitable degradation of the Zn metal anode. The intrinsic thermodynamic instability of Zn metal anodes in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01104C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. James Han Zhang, Rohith Mittapally, Abimbola Oluwade, Gang Chen Evaporation fluxes from porous evaporators under sunlight have been reported to exceed the solar-thermal limit, determined by relating the incoming solar energy to the latent and sensible heat of water,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00605H, Paper Yuhao Guo, Qinhui Guan, Xingjuan Li, Mengjun Zhao, Na Li, Zizhong Zhang, Gui-qiang Fei, Tingjiang Yan In heterogeneous photocatalysis, the dynamics of charge carriers holds particular significance for comprehending the underlying catalytic mechanism and designing highly efficient photocatalysts. The current technological challenge lies in how to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01407G, Paper Yongjian Zhao, Murong Huang, Yongshuai Kang, Yong Fang, Tianyou Zhao, Hu Wang, Jiayi Ou, Jiajun Liu, Meixi Zhong, Tao Wang, Xianhu Sun, Chenyang Zhao, Dan Wang The sluggish oxygen reduction kinetics, resulting from ineffective O2 activation and hydrogenation, has been hindering the performance improvement of self-breathing zinc-air batteries (ZABs), especially in a hostile environment under low... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00499C, Paper Xinru Sheng, Jiaying Liao, Zeyu Yuan, Yuhan Wang, Qiao Hu, Yichen Du, Xuefeng Wang, Xiaosi Zhou Conversion-type materials are regarded as potential anodes for potassium-ion batteries, achieving high potassium storage capacity through conversion reactions to form K-rich compounds. However, the accompanying huge volume change often brings... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05757K, Paper Qunhao Wang, Xueyong Deng, Xiaolin Xue, Jian Zhang, Jiangqi Zhao, Zengyan Sui, Yuefei Zou, Longbo Luo, Wei Zhang, Xiangyang Liu, Canhui Lu Rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries (ZIBs) are a promising device for sustainable energy storage, yet their application is hindered by uncontrollable Zn dendrite growth and parasitic reactions. Herein, a flexible membrane... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00689A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yongpeng Liu, Celine Wing See Yeung, Erwin Reisner An organic–inorganic photoelectrochemical (PEC) tandem device for converting polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to formate under simulated solar irradiation. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00500K, Paper Qiang Wu, Yuanke Wu, Hui Yan, Wei Zhong, Mingsheng Qin, Haolin Zhu, Shijie Cheng, Jia Xie Sulfurized polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) is one of the most promising cathodes for high-energy-density lithium‒sulfur batteries since its distinctive organic skeleton and covalent sulfur storage mechanism effectively prevent polysulfide dissolution and mitigate... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01170A, Paper Xin Yang, Minghao Xie, Zhijie Yan, Hang Ruan, Chunpeng Yang, Zaiping Guo, Zi-Jian Zheng Zinc-iodine (Zn–I₂) batteries are promising candidates for next-generation large-scale energy storage systems due to their inherent safety, environmental sustainability, and potential cost-effectiveness compared to lithium-ion batteries. Their applications, however, have... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01492A, Paper Yingjin Luo, Wentao Lei, Pengfei Chen, Tao Jiang, Andeng Liu, Meidan Ye, Zijie Xu, Zhong Lin Wang, Wenxi Guo The low root mean square (RMS) current density generated by triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) has significantly hindered their effectiveness in charging lithium batteries. In response, we present a universal energy storage... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00365B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Wenyan Du, Qi Huang, Xunwen Zheng, Yaokang Lv, Ling Miao, Ziyang Song, Lihua Gan, Mingxian Liu Six-electron I−/I5+ redox chemistry gives a promising platform to propel high-capacity Zn-I2 batteries, but faces limited conversion efficiency and instability of IO3− species. Here we design a thiazole-linked covalent organic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01568E, Perspective Zhexi Xiao, Haojun Wu, Lijiao Quan, Fanghong Zeng, Ruoyu Guo, Zekai Ma, Xiaoyu Chen, Jiaqi Zhan, Kang Xu, Lidan Xing, Weishan Li The development of high-capacity anodes is of paramount importance to address the rapidly increasing demand for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). While the commercialization of nanoscale silicon (Si) and microscale silicon... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01219H, Paper Fengxu Zhen, Hong Liu, Yingbin Wu, Xinjia Zhou, Weiping Lin, Yuzhi Chen, Yuke Zhou, Haoyang Wang, Xiangkai Yin, Shujiang Ding, Xiaodong Chen, Wei Yu Anion regulation to generate LiF-rich solid electrolyte interfaces (SEIs) represents a highly effective, convenient, and economical approach. The anion decomposition process is influenced by charge density and anion concentration. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05328A, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Arash Mollahosseini, Mostafa Nikkhah Dafchahi, Saeed Khoshhal Salestan, Mohammad Mozafari, Usha D. Hemraz, Ronaldo Giro, Seyed Fatemeh Seyedpour Taji, Amirul Islam, Sajjad Kavyani, Xinyu Wang, Jia Wei Chew, Masoud Soroush, Sabahudin Hrapovic, Mathias Steiner, Young-Hye La, Mohtada Sadrzadeh, Khalid Azyat, Jae-Young Cho The urgency to mitigate global warming and climate change has catalyzed advancements in decarbonization technologies, with membrane separation emerging as a key area of interest. Noted for its compact design,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01350J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Hyo Jin, Dong Woog Lee, Jeonguk Hwang, Min Hoon Myung, Jee Ho Ha, Seungwoo Choi, Soon-Jae Jung, Seunghyun Lee, Jinwoo Park, Young-Ryul Kim, Nyung Joo Kong, Youngsik Kim, Hyun-Wook Lee, Hyunhyub Ko, Tae Joo Shin, Seok Ju Kang, Myung-Jin Baek Common polymer binders are insulators, which significantly diminish the battery performance owing to their low electron mobility. For aqueous sodium-air batteries (SABs) to exhibit reliable performance as energy storage systems,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00197H, Review Article Jiguo Tu, Yan Li, Bokun Zhang, Xiaoyun Wang, Ramachandran Vasant Kumar, Libo Chen, Shuqiang Jiao High-voltage spinel lithium nickel manganese oxide (LNMO) stand out as a promising cobalt-free cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, due to its low cost, high voltage and energy density capabilities. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05905K, Paper Ziwei Xu, Junpeng Li, Yifan Fu, Junjie Ba, Fengxue Duan, Yingjin Wei, Chunzhong Wang, Kangning Zhao, Yizhan Wang An ultrathin, water-repellent Zn 2+ -selective membrane suppresses interfacial water penetration and hydrogen evolution, enabling >10 000 cycles at 99.91% CE for scalable, Ah-level zinc metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06192F, Paper Jiacheng Liu, Yan Wen, Wei Yan, Zhongliang Huang, Xiaozhi Liu, Xuan Huang, Changhong Zhan, Yuqi Zhang, Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Wen Pao, Zhiwei Hu, Dong Su, Shunji Xie, Ye Wang, Jiajia Han, Haifeng Xiong, Xiaoqing Huang, Nanjun Chen The production of value-added liquid fuels via the electroreduction of CO has received widespread attention. Although copper (Cu) has demonstrated promising activity in producing multi-carbon products, the yield of a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05922K, Paper Shuang Han, Minghai Li, Qiyu Fan, Zhuoyi Han, Xuewen Ming, Wen Wang, Wanan Cai, Haijun Niu The BHED additive optimizing the Zn 2+ solvation structure and in situ building the β-ME SAM with highly active zincophilic sites on the Zn anode surface, Zn-ion batteries exhibit excellent interfacial stability, cyclic reversibility, and longevity. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06091A, Paper Songyang Chang, Wentao Hou, Angelica Del Valle-Perez, Irfan Ullah, Xiaoyu Du, Lisandro Cunci, Gerardo Morell, Xianyong Wu Aqueous multivalent metal batteries represent an attractive option for energy storage. Currently, various metals have been attempted for aqueous battery operation, ranging from divalent metals (zinc, iron, nickel, manganese) to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05669H, Communication Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Craig Burdis, Romain Tort, Anna Winiwarter, Johannes Rietbrock, Jesús Barrio, Maria Magdalena Titirici, Ifan E.L. Stephens To introduce the potential for tuneability of the cathode in lithium mediated ammonia synthesis, we report a carbon cathode which produces ammonia at a Faradaic efficiency of 37 %. This... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00542F, Paper Pengfei Ding, Xugang Rong, Daobin Yang, Xueliang Yu, Zhenxin Shao, Hongqian Wang, Xiaochun Liao, Xinyue Cao, Jie Wu, Lin Xie, Jintao Zhu, Fei Chen, Guo Chen, Yan Huang, Ziyi Ge The majority of host/guest materials used in organic solar cells (OSCs) are currently synthesized via Stille reaction, which suffers from poor atom/step economics, low cost-effectiveness, and environmental risks. Therefore, organic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00342C, Paper Zhiyang Xu, Runnan Yu, Tangyue Xue, Qiang Guo, Qianglong Lv, Chen Zhang, Erjun Zhou, Zhan'ao Tan Flexible perovskite solar cells (f-PSCs) have garnered increasing research interest owing to their high power-to-weight ratio and ability to integrate into buildings. However, the mismatch of the thermal expansion coefficient... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05109B, Paper Dawei Xi, Zheng Yang, Michael S Emanuel, Panlin Zhao, Michael J. Aziz Carbon dioxide capture and management are critical technologies for achieving carbon neutrality and mitigating the impacts of global warming. One promising approach for decarbonization involves electrochemical generation of concentrated acid... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05582A, Review Article Xiaomin Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xingbo Wang, Guoliang Cui, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun Developing efficient catalysts is essential for mitigating the shuttle effect and accelerating the conversion kinetics of polysulfides in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. To date, numerous strategies have been employed to optimize... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05703A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mayank Kedia, Chittaranjan Das, Malgorzata Kot, Yenal Yalcinkaya, Weiwei Zuo, Kenedy Tabah Tanko, Peter Matvija, Mikel Ezquer, Iñaki Cornago, Wolfram Hempel, Florian Kauffmann, Paul Plate, Monica Lira-Cantu, Stefan A.L. Weber, Michael Saliba Atomic layer deposition of aluminum oxide (ALD-Al 2 O 3 ) layers has been extensively studied for stabilizing perovskite solar cells (PSCs) against environmental stressors, such as humidity and oxygen. In addition, the ALD-Al 2 O 3 ... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00368G, Paper Rui Yang, Ding Ai, Sidi Fan, Wenqi Zhang, Xiao Yang, Fangcheng Lv, Yonghong Cheng, Xiang Yu Aromatic polymer films with high glass transition temperatures (Tg) exhibit superior thermal stability, making them ideal for high-temperature dielectric capacitors in advanced electrical and electronic systems. However, the leakage current... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00703H, Paper Yanan Zhang, Shenyu Shen, Zihan Kang, Na Gao, Dandan Yin, Lanya Zhao, Bo Wen, Teng Deng, Kai Xi, Yaqiong Su, Hongyang Zhao, Shujiang Ding The cation buffer strategy of electrolyte in alkaline zinc batteries can initiate a ‘fast nucleation-slow growth’ mode to re-establish the relationship between zincate concentration and zinc deposition, thereby inducing unique spherical deposition. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06100D, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mingzhuang Liang, Jinwook Kim, Xiaomin Xu, Hainan Sun, Yufei Song, SungHyun Jeon, Tae Ho Shin, Zongping Shao, WooChul Jung NH3 is an attractive alternative fuel to hydrogen and methane, offering advantages such as easy compression at room temperature, straightforward storage and transportation, high volumetric energy density, and carbon-free nature.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00136F, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Huihua Li, Fanglin Wu, Jian Wang, Jingxuan Wang, Hongxu Qu, Minghua Chen, Huang Zhang, Stefano Passerini Anode-free sodium metal batteries (AFSMBs) represent a significant advancement in energy storage technology, offering high energy density and cost-effective solutions. However, their applications are impeded by the critical sodium deposition... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00452G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Fanxu Meng, Zihan Shen, Xinlong Lin, Pengfei Song, Tianze Wu, Shibo Xi, Chao Wu, Zhenhui Ma, Daniel Mandler, Zhichuan J. Xu The conventional production of formic acid is energy-intensive, requiring methanol and carbon monoxide reactions followed by hydrolysis under high temperature and pressure. Methanol electrochemical refinery (e-refinery) offers a sustainable alternative... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06146B, Paper Mingchen Yang, Xiuyang Zou, Mingzhu Wu, Jiangtao Yu, Xinyu Ma, Yin Hu, Feng Yan Aqueous Zn metal batteries (ZMBs) are receiving increasing attention due to their safety, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. However, aqueous ZMBs suffer from the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), dendrite growth, and intrinsic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00104H, Paper Feng Wang, Lian Chen, Jiaqi Wei, Caozheng Diao, Fan Li, Congcong Du, Zhengshuai Bai, Yanyan Zhang, Oleksandr I. Malyi, Xiaodong Chen, Yuxin Tang, Xiaojun Bao Elucidating the microstructure of hard carbon is essential for uncovering the sodium storage mechanism and constructing state-of-the-art hard carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries. Guided by understanding the crystallization process and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00355E, Paper Ziheng Zhu, Da Zhang, Xiaoye Zhang, Xiliang Zhang Accelerating decarbonization of the power system is at the heart of achieving China’s carbon neutrality goal and mitigating global climate change. However, deploying multi-terawatts of variable renewable energy (VRE) may... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05369A, Paper Chaohe Xu, Tongtong Deng, Chen Li, Guanjije Lu, Zongyang Li, Ronghua Wang Sodium-metal batteries (SMBs) are considered as the ideal candidates for the next-generation large-scale energy storage batteries. However, achieving all-climate SMBs operating at a wide temperature remains a huge challenge because... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05556J, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hengyuan Hu, Meisheng Han, Jie Liu, Kunxiong Zheng, Zhiyu Zou, Yongbiao Mu, Fenghua Yu, Wenjia Li, Lei Wei, Lin Zeng, Tianshou Zhao All-vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) have emerged as a research hotspot and future direction of massive energy storage systems due to their advantages of intrinsic safety, long-duration energy storage, long... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06035K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yixin Wu, zhen chen, Kai Shi, Yang Wang, Xian-Ao Li, Ziqi Zhao, Quan Zhuang, Jian Wang, Minghua Chen Polymer-based solid-state electrolytes exhibit superior advantages in flexibility, lightweight, and large-scale processability, rendering them promising for high-performance solid-state lithium metal batteries (SSLMBs) with enhanced safety. However, challenges like poor structural... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05508J, Paper Qi Liu, Panzhe Qiao, Di Shen, Ying Xie, Baoluo Wang, Tianyu Han, Hongtu Shi, Lei Wang, Honggang Fu Iron clusters coupled with single atom sites have been developed as bifunctional oxygen reaction electrocatalysts for constructing ultra-stable, flexible zinc–air batteries operable in a temperature range from +40 °C to −40 °C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00217F, Paper Zekun Li, Pengfei Huang, Jinfeng Zhang, Zhaoxin Guo, Zhedong Liu, Li Chen, Jingchao Zhang, Jiawei Luo, Xiansen Tao, Zhikai Miao, Haoran Jiang, Chunying Wang, Xinran Ye, Xiaona Wu, Wei-Di Liu, Rui Liu, Yanan Chen, Wenbin Hu We developed an innovative high-temperature shock (HTS) technique to synthesize uniformly coated materials, resulting in enhanced surface structures, improved cycling stability, and pouch cells retaining over 70% capacity after 700 cycles. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04896B, Paper Yitong Peng, Tao Meng, Pingan Li, Rongxin Li, Xianluo Hu Significant heat is often generated within lithium-ion batteries during practical operation, particularly under fast-charging or extreme conditions. If not dissipated efficiently, this heat can induce catastrophic thermal runaway. In this... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05263C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Chenyang Shi, Zhengguang Li, Mengran Wang, Shu Hong, Bo Hong, Yaxuan Fu, Die Liu, Rui Tan, Pingshan Wang, Yanqing Lai The deployment of lithium-ion batteries, essential for military and space exploration applications, faces restrictions due to safety issues and performance degradation stemming from the uncontrollable side reactions between electrolytes and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03862B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jinuk Kim, Dong Gyu Lee, Ju Hyun Lee, Saehun Kim , Cheol-Young Park, Jiyoon Lee, Hyeokjin Kwon, Hannah Cho, Jungyoon Lee, Donghyeok Son, Hee-Tak Kim, Nam-Soon Choi, Tae Kyung Lee, Jinwoo Lee Electrolyte engineering is emerging as a key strategy for enhancing the cycle life of lithium metal batteries (LMBs). Fluorinated electrolytes have dramatically extended cycle life; however, intractable challenges regarding the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00027K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Hong Li, Bosi Huang, Mingyan Chuai, Zhiyang Zheng, Zhihong Piao, Hao Chen, Guangmin Zhou, Hong Jin Fan Aqueous Zn-I2 batteries are promising candidates for grid-scale energy storage due to their low cost, high voltage output and high safety. However, Ah-level Zn-I2 batteries have been rarely realized due... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00206K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Qisheng Wu, Yue Qi Recently, we have proposed micelle-like structures to fully understand microstructures in localized high-concentration electrolytes (LHCE) that show many benefits to high-capacity electrodes. It is critical to understand the electrical double... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05264A, Paper Qin Wang, Yiming Zhang, Meng Yao, Kang Li, Lv Xu, Haitao Zhang, Xiaopeng Wang, Yun Zhang The utilization of high-capacity lithium-rich layered oxide (LRLO) in lithium-ion batteries is hampered by its severe interface reactions and poor interface dynamics. Herein, an OG gate (OG) is constructed on... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06096B, Review Article Lin Liu, Zi-Jian Chen, Guo-Yu Zhu, Bai-Hua Huang, Bo Wang, Yu Yao, De-Shan Bin, Xianhong Rui, Yan Yu Low concentration electrolytes (LCEs) show various advantages, such as lower cost, better wettability, wider temperature operation, and greater variety of salt species options, which have inspired numerous research interests for... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05966B, Paper Liyu Du, Yiming Zhang, Yiyang Xiao, Du Yuan, Meng Yao, Yun Zhang The electrochemical performances of composite solid-state electrolytes (CSEs) cannot satisfy the application requirements of solid-state batteries (SSBs) due to the low concentration of movable cations with disordered and slow cation... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05304D, Review Article Xianwei Fu, Ruijuan Shi, Ye Liu, Xiaoxiao He, Qian Li, Yan Zhang, Yong Zhao, Shilong Jiao Aqueous batteries (ABs) based on water-containing electrolytes are intrinsically safe and serve as promising candidates for the grid-scale energy storage and power supplies of wearable electronics. The severe temperature fluctuations... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05873A, Paper Leiqian Zhang, Han Ding, Haiqi Gao, Jiaming Gong, Hele Guo, Shuoqing Zhang, Yi Yu, Guanjie He, Tao Deng, Ivan P. Parkin, Johan Hofkens, Xiulin Fan, Feili Lai, Tianxi Liu This work presents a zinc–iodine battery featuring a liquid–liquid biphasic electrolyte and an integrated cell structure, which facilitates an iodine loading of 69.8 mg cm −2 , a self-discharge rate of 3.4% per month, and ∼100% recycling efficiency. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05462H, Review Article Jingsheng He, Yu Bai, Zhixin (Veela) Luo, Ran Ran, Wei Zhou, Wei Wang, Zongping Shao Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) as new-generation photovoltaic cells have received remarkable interests due to the facile fabrication procedures and superb power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Nevertheless, the widely used noble metal-based... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05715E, Review Article yunling Jiang, linsen huang, chaojie chen, Yao Zheng, Shizhang Qiao Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2RR) presents a viable strategy to transfer the dominant greenhouse gas, CO2, into high-value-added chemicals, supporting carbon neutrality. CO2RR in alkaline and neutral media have thrived... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04223A, Paper Xiaoxue Kou, Jiatong Jiang, Baoshan Xie, He Shan, Primož Poredoš, Ruzhu Wang The change of seasons necessitates alternate heating and cooling systems, which are indispensable for nearly a third of the global population. Integrating latent thermal energy storage (LTES) and heat pumps... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04519J, Paper Guanghu He, Hang Luo, Yuan Liu, Yuting Wan, Bo Peng, Deng Hu, Fan Wang, Xiaona Li, Jiajun Peng, Huan Wang, Dou Zhang Polymer-based dielectric capacitors for extreme environments require materials with exceptional electrical insulation. Polyimide (PI) is a promising candidate for high-temperature energy storage, yet it suffers from charge transfer complexes (CTCs)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05340K, Paper Lebin Cai, Haoyun Bai, Jilong Li, Feng Xie, Kang Jiang, Ying-Rui Lu, Hui Pan, Yongwen Tan Electrocatalytic urea oxidation reaction (UOR) has emerged as a promising alternative to oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for wastewater recycling and energy recovery. However, traditional UOR pathway on NiOOH surface faces... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04959D, Comment Hyun Soo Han, In Sun Cho, Xiaolin Zheng Additional experimental evidence was provided to demonstrate the growth of the [001]-textured BiVO 4 on polycrystalline substrates. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,620-630 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04085F, Paper Zongliang Xie, Zhiyuan Huang, He Li, Tianlei Xu, Haoyu Zhao, Yunfei Wang, Xi Pang, Zhiqiang Cao, Virginia Altoé, Liana M. Klivansky, Zaiyu Wang, Steve W. Shelton, Shiqi Lai, Peng Liu, Chenhui Zhu, Michael D. Connolly, Corie Y. Ralston, Xiaodan Gu, Zongren Peng, Jian Zhang, Yi Liu Linker engineering of the UiO-66-based metal–organic framework series reveals its untapped potential as nanofillers for boosting the heat-resistant electrostatic energy storage performance of polyetherimide at 200 °C. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04372C, Paper Shenglong Li, Yunpeng Zhong, Jiangtao Huang, Guojun Lai, Le Li, Long Jiang, Xieyu Xu, Bingan Lu, Yangyang Liu, Jiang Zhou Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) with low cost and inherited safety have been viewed as crucial candidates for the energy storage system, whose commercialization is hindered by the interfacial instability including... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05356G, Paper Qun He, Yuzhu Zhou, Li-Hui Mou, Chuanqiang Wu, Daobin Liu, Binghui Ge, Jun Jiang, Li Song Electrocatalytic water splitting, a promising alternative to fossil fuels, has substantial potential for hydrogen generation. However, developing efficient electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) faces challenges, especially in alkaline... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05591H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. James Han Zhang, Rohith Mittapally, Guangxin Lv, Gang Chen To explain reported solar interfacial-evaporation rates from porous materials beyond an apparent 100% efficiency using the thermal evaporation mechanism, many publications hypothesize that intermediate water inside porous materials have a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04689G, Paper Wei Bi, Canhuang Li, Dawei Yang, Yu-Zhen Zhang, Lei Hu, Qianhong Gong, Jie Zhang, Yong Cai Zhang, Mengyao Li, Jishi Wei, Yingtang Zhou, Dan Zhou, Wu Tianli, Li-Feng Chen, Andreu Cabot Two-dimensional (2D) nanocarbon-based materials with controllable pore structures and hydrophilic surfaces exhibit significant potential in various applications. However, traditional methods often encounter challenges in achieving these 2D carbon nanomaterials effectively.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03104K, Paper Xian Wu, Wei Zhang, Haotian Qu, Chaohong Guan, Chuang Li, Gongxun Lu, Chengshuai Chang, Zhoujie Lao, Yanfei Zhu, Lu Nie, Guangmin Zhou Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) are garnering significant interest for use in solid-state lithium metal batteries. However, a critical challenge in the rational design of electrolytes lies in ensuring interfacial compatibility,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05442C, Paper Yongzhen Xu, Kui Chen, Mingwei Xu, Yue Li, Qing Wu, Shizhao Li, Chunhui Xie, Yunqi Li, Haibo Xie, Jun Huang Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs) provide an enticing option for energy storage with cost-effectiveness, integral safety, and environmental benignity. However, the reversibility and lifespan of AZIBs are constrained by the uncontrolled... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03385J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yiqiao Wang, Hu Hong, Zhiquan Wei, Dedi Li, Xinru Yang, Jiaxiong Zhu, Pei Li, Shengnan Wang, Chunyi Zhi Aqueous Zn-Mn flow batteries (Zn-Mn FBs) are a potential candidate for large-scale energy storage due to their high voltage, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, the unsatisfactory performance due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04100C, Paper Kuo Wang, Hongtu Zhan, Wenlong Su, Xiao-Xia Liu, Xiaoqi Sun A macromolecule additive strategy is presented as a dual deceleration interfacial network to regulate Zn deposition behavior and inhibit side reactions. It enables the stable cycling of Zn electrodes in aqueous batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,322-333 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03978E, Paper Xueyu Lian, Liang Xu, Zhijin Ju, Ziang Chen, Xiaopeng Chen, Yuyang Yi, Zhengnan Tian, Tao Cheng, Shixue Dou, Xinyong Tao, Jingyu Sun A versatile separator modification strategy is proposed to rearrange anode interface species, realizing a robust inorganic-rich solid–electrolyte interphase thus ensuring a durable potassium metal batteries. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04847D, Paper Qingying Li, Dan Luo, Qianyi Ma, Zhuoyi Zheng, Shibin Li, Yihan Xie, Linjiang Xue, Meizhu Lin, Yihang Nie, Guo Feng, Haozhen Dou, Jiawen Chen, Xin Wang, Zhongwei Chen Electrochemical and thermodynamic instability of zinc metal represented by the corrosion reaction have hindered aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) further development. Herein, we introduced a high electron acceptor Lewis acid... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04282D, Paper Yu Ou, Wen-hui Hou, Da Zhu, Changjian Li, Pan Zhou, Xuan Song, Yingchun Xia, Yang Lu, Shuaishuai Yan, Hangyu Zhou, Qingbin Cao, Haiyu Zhou, Hao Liu, Xiao Ma, Zhi Liu, Hong Xu, Kai Liu The incorporation of lithium metal as an anode material in lithium metal batteries (LMBs) offers a transformative pathway to surpass the energy density limits of conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03951C, Paper Fumiyasu Nozaki, Shaoning Zhang, Martin Hoffman Peterson, Jinkwang Hwang, Jin Hyun Chang, Juan Maria Garcia-Lastra, Kazuhiko Matsumoto Triphylite NaFePO4 emerges as a promising solution for sodium secondary batteries due to its abundant constituent elements and high energy density, making it attractive for sustainable energy storage applications. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04323E, Review Article Xin Wang, Yameng Fan, Jiayang Li, Xinghan Li, Weijie Li, Jiazhao Wang, Wei Kong Pang All solid-state sodium metal batteries (ASSSMBs) have emerged as promising candidates in large-scale energy storage systems relative to Li/Na-ion batteries using flammable liquid electrolytes. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03185G, Paper Cheolhyun Cho, Byeonggwan Kim, Sienoh Park, Eunkyoung Kim An optimal contribution of electronic and ionic carriers in mixed ionic–electronic conductor (MIEC) films was explored to achieve high voltage and power density for waste and solar heat harvesting at a low temperature gradient. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04465G, Paper Xinxin Shu, Xueying Cao, Bowen He, Xunyi Chen, Lanling Zhao, Chengdong Yang, Jizhen Ma, Jintao Zhang Carbon matrix-supported indium clusters, in conjunction with iron–nitrogen–carbon active sites exhibit superior bifunctional electrocatalytic activity for both the ORR and OER. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03525A, Review Article Sheher Yar Khan, Sajid Rauf, Shuli Liu, Wei Chen, Yongliang Shen, Mahesh Kumar Studies have been conducted to explore innovative performance-enhancing thermal management strategies (PETS) aimed at improving the efficiency of Photovoltaic (PV) technology and shift towards a low-carbon economy. Nonetheless, there remains... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04106B, Paper Hyeseong Oh, Gyu-Sang Kim, Jiyoon Bang, San Kim, Kyeong-Min Jeong Dry-processed thick cathodes designed with a porous spherical conductive agent exhibit superior electrochemical performances, even with high areal capacities of up to 20 mA h cm −2 and a high composite density of 3.65 g cm −3 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04908J, Paper Emma Kaeli, Zhelong Jiang, Xiaomian Yang, Emma Patricia Kwai Lin Choy, Nicolas Bojun Liang, Edward Barks, Sunny Wang, Stephen Dongmin Kang, William C. Chueh Solid-state batteries (SSBs) promise more energy-dense storage than liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, first-cycle capacity loss is higher in SSBs than in LIBs due to interfacial reactions. The chemical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02449D, Communication Entian Cui, Yulian Lu, Xiu-Li Yang, Guojun Dong, Yajun Zhang, Yingpu Bi We demonstrated a facile electrochemical treatment for in situ anchoring of Cu 4 clusters in a graphitic C 3 N 5 framework, leading to remarkable improvements of photocatalytic reactivity and selectivity towards CO 2 reduction to ethanol. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03240C, Paper Yuqing Zhong, Yunzheng Zhang, Jiajian Wang, Huile Jin, Shuang Pan, Shun Wang, Yihuang Chen Utilizing the photothermal assistance principle provides fascinating opportunities to explore the connection between the catalyst photothermal effect and zinc–air battery characteristics under normal to extreme conditions. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04803B, Paper Yimei Chen, Kaijie Zhang, Zhixiao Xu, Facheng Gong, Renfei Feng, Zhehui Jin, Xiaolei Wang Zinc-ion batteries are challenged by zinc dendrites, notorious side reactions, and poor performance at low temperatures. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03419H, Paper Ciyu Ge, Qi Xu, Dayu Liu, Wenjiang Ye, Yongxin Zhu, Peiyan Zhang, Jiakuan Yang, Guangxing Liang, Ling Xu, Ying Zhou, Haisheng Song, Chao Chen, Jiang Tang Vacuum-assisted technology, favored for its low cost, environmentally friendly nature, and scalability, is widely used in perovskite solar cells and is a preferred choice for commercialized production. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04466E, Paper Yuan Fang, Chunhong Qi, Weichao Bao, Fangfang Xu, Wei Sun, Bin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang, Pengpeng Qiu, Wei Luo The MXene–VO 2− x cathode with asymmetric Ti–O–V orbital hybridization at the heterointerface for zinc-ion batteries is designed to stabilize the oxygen vacancies through charge transfer, thus efficiently boosting the electrochemical performance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03303E, Paper Jinxin Wang, Wei Guo, Mingming Sun, Geng Zhang, Yang Meng, Qiuyu Zhang A dynamic PEI layer was tailored over MnO 2 by refining the cation environment and reconstruction. The unique host-guest coupling restrains Mn species loss and unlocks an energetic “multi-processing” energy storage mechanism. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05239K, Perspective Lin Li, Xisheng Sun, Jie Miao, Haonan Wang, Yongchen Song, Dawei Tang The decarbonization of energy systems underscores the critical role of solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) for clean energy production. By leveraging solar energy to induce water evaporation, SDIE systems generate ion... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04011B, Paper Xuanfeng Chen, Chunhao Qin, Fulu Chu, Fangkun Li, Jun Liu, Feixiang Wu A simple gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) for low-temperature operation is designed with multifunctional components, enabling fast ion transport and stable interface. Li//LCO cells with the GPE achieve high capacity and stable cycling even at −60 °C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04163A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hwiyoon Noh, Hyunki Yeo, Bryan W Boudouris, Brian M. Tackett The increasing demand for sustainable chemical production due to strict regulations for carbon emission aligns with growing availability of solar and wind energy, making electrochemical manufacturing a viable route toward... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03208J, Paper Wenbo Peng, Yong Zhang, Xianyong Zhou, Jiawen Wu, Deng Wang, Geping Qu, Jie Zeng, Yintai Xu, Bo Jiang, Peide Zhu, Yifan Du, Zhitong Li, Xia Lei, Zhixin Liu, Lei Yan, Xingzhu Wang, Baomin Xu Through a bimolecular energy-level-tunable design, an ET-HTL reaches optimal energy level alignment with three different perovskite compositions, providing balanced interface defect passivation, charge extraction, and transition loss suppression. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04106B, Paper Hyeseong Oh, Gyu-sang Kim, Jiyoon Bang, San Kim, Kyeong-Min Jeong Designing thick electrodes is essential for the applications of lithium-ion batteries that demand high energy density. Introducing a dry electrode process that does not require solvents during electrode fabrication has... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03743J, Paper Jiping Sun, Bichao Wu, Zhixing Wang, Huajun Guo, Guochun Yan, Hui Duan, Guangchao Li, Ying Wang, Jiexi Wang Membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) have been developed for electrochemical conversion of CO2 to high-value multi-carbon (C2+) products at industrial current densities (j>200 mA cm-2). However, the effective and simultaneous modulation... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02449D, Communication Entian Cui, Yulian Lu, Xiuli Yang, Guojun Dong, Yajun Zhang, Yingpu Bi We demonstrated a facile electrochemical treatment for in-situ anchoring subnanometric Cu4 clusters in graphitic C3N5 framework (Cu4/C3N5), leading to remarkable improvements of photocatalytic reactivity and selectivity for CO2 reduction into... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04691A, Paper Zilong Li, Shunlian Ning, Yanshuo Jin, Nan Wang, Shuhui Sun, Hui Meng Optimization of the charging reaction for zinc-air batteries remains a significant challenge. Here, we report a series of zinc-alcohol-air batteries that replace the oxygen evolution reaction with more thermodynamically favorable... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03240C, Paper Yuqing Zhong, Yunzheng Zhang, Jiajian Wang, Huile Jin, Shuang Pan, Shun Wang, Yihuang Chen The potential to produce cost-effective, high-performance bifunctional oxygen catalysts holds significant promise for the commercialization of zinc-air batteries (ZABs). In this study, photothermal electrocatalysts consisting of NiCo2S4@NiFe layered double hydroxides... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04116J, Paper Tao Chen, Junfei Cai, Hangchao Wang, Chuan Gao, Chonglin Yuan, Kun Zhang, Yue Yu, Wukun Xiao, Tie Luo, Dingguo Xia Metal–CO2 rechargeable batteries have immense application potential owing to their high theoretical energy densities and CO2 capture capabilities. However, batteries relying on carbonate production typically offer low output voltages (<2.6... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04525D, Review Article Tian Wang, shaocong Tang, Ya Xiao, Weiwei Xiang, Jae Su Yu The expansion of anode-free configuration in aqueous zinc (Zn) metal batteries (ZMBs) combines intrinsic safety and low cost while satisfying the desire for high energy density. Since all Zn sources... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02947J, Paper Hailong Wu, Jiulin Hu, Songlin Yu, Chilin Li High energy all-solid-state lithium metal batteries (AS-LMBs) are challenging due to anode dendrite growth, high interfacial resistance and low cathode loading. Here, a dual conversion reaction strategy is proposed to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03192J, Paper Ying Wei, Han Wang, Xin Lin, Tianyu Wang, Yanming Cui, Yu Huang, Jiayi Yang, Te-Huan Liu, Yang Ren, Xiulin Fan, Henghui Xu, Yunhui Huang Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are considered highly promising due to their high-energy-density, however, suffer from challenges such as lithium dendrite growth at low temperatures (LT) and severe decomposition at high... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04046E, Paper Ming Zhao, Tao Cheng, Tianyu Li, Shuo Wang, Yanbin Yin, Xianfeng Li Polybromide molecular polarity regulation ensures the optimal performance of zinc–bromine flow batteries at room temperature and −20 °C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05028B, Paper Xiaoyun Xu, Songmei Li, Junwei An, Zicheng Luo, Juan Du, Bin Li, Jinyan Zhong, Mei Yu, Shubin Yang The application of Zn metal anode in aqueous zinc metal batteries (AZMBs) is limited by unstable interface, which induced notorious dendrite growth and corrosion. In this report, a bionic ion... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03978E, Paper Xueyu Lian, Liang Xu, Zhijin Ju, Ziang Chen, Xiaopeng Chen, Yuyang Yi, Zhengnan Tian, Tao Cheng, Shixue Dou, Xinyong Tao, Jingyu Sun A versatile separator modification strategy is proposed to rearrange anode interface species, realizing a robust inorganic-rich solid–electrolyte interphase thus ensuring a durable potassium metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01743A, Paper Benben Wei, Shuo Huang, Xuan Wang, Min Liu, Can Huang, Ruoqing Liu, Hongyun Jin Solid-state sodium metal batteries (SSBs) have drawn significant attention as a low-cost alternative for post-lithium-ion energy storage system. However, numerous challenges like poor grain-boundary conductivity and high interface resistance still... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04803B, Paper Yimei Chen, Kaijie Zhang, Zhixiao Xu, Facheng Gong, Renfei Feng, Zhehui Jin, Xiaolei Wang The zinc-ion batteries are challenged by zinc dendrite, notorious side reactions, and poor performance at low temperatures. Here, we present a dual-salts tuned electrolyte exhibiting a wide temperature range (-60... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03483J, Opinion Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Xuan Gao, Haobo Dong, Chang Su, Yuhang Dai, Yiyang Liu, Ivan P. Parkin, Claire J Carmalt, Guanjie He Aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) present a transformative avenue in electrochemical energy storage technologies, leveraging zinc anodes and aqueous electrolytes for safety and cost-effectiveness. The primary challenge of mitigating zinc... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02903H, Paper Gongxun Lu, Xinru Wu, Miaofei Huang, Mengtian Zhang, Zhihong Piao, Xiongwei Zhong, Chuang Li, Yanze Song, Chengshuai Chang, Kuang Yu, Guangmin Zhou Self-adsorbing molecules stabilize electrode interfaces and inhibit solvent decomposition to ensure high-voltage stability of lithium metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02710H, Paper Shiteng Li, Shang Liu, Qijun Yang, Shuai Deng, Meng Lin To address global water scarcity and improve off-grid pure water production, this study focuses on enhancing the performance of inverted solar evaporators by optimizing the design of cover materials. By... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03021D, Paper Yi Guo, Yang Li, Kai Qiu, Yan Li, Wei Jing Yuan, Chenxi Li, Xinyu Rui, Lewei Shi, Hou Yukun, Saiyue Liu, Dongsheng Ren, Tan Tiening, Gaolong Zhu, Languang Lu, Shengming Xu, Biao Deng, Xiang LIU, Minggao Ouyang The direct regeneration of spent cathodes stands out as an environmentally and economically benign strategy within the battery ecosystem, eclipsing the cumbersome metallurgical approaches. Before addressing the lithium loss and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04119D, Paper Jin Yang, Yuanhong Kang, Fanxiang Meng, weiwei meng, guanhong Chen, Minghao Zhang, Zeheng Lv, Zhipeng Wen, Chengchao Li, Jinbao Zhao, Yang Yang Aqueous Zn−iodine (Zn-I2) batteries, featuring intrinsically high-safety aqueous electrolytes and eco-friendly cathode/anode materials, however are restricted by the shuttling of polyiodide and sluggish redox kinetics of iodine redox. Although various... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02292K, Paper Zengding Wang, Tianjiang Zhang, Shanchao Liu, Keli Ding, Tengyu Liu, Jun Yao, Hai Sun, Yongfei Yang, Lei Zhang, Wen-Dong Wang, Cunqi Jia, Mojdeh Delshad, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Junjie Zhong Fluid miscible behaviors in nanoporous media are crucial for applications such as carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), membrane separation, subsurface pollutant remediation, and geothermal extraction. Confinement effects at the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03623A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Richard Pacalaj, Yifan Dong, Ivan Ramirez, Roderick MacKenzie, Mehrdad Hosseini, Eva Bittrich, Julian E. Heger, Pascal Kaienburg, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Jiaying Wu, Moritz Riede, Harald Ade, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Martin Pfeiffer, James Durrant Vacuum-processed organic solar cells (VP-OSCs) possess many advantages for scalability. However, as the academic community focusses on high performing solution-processed OSCs, detailed studies about the relation between morphology and device... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03956D, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Fengqi You, Xueyu Tian, Samuel D Stranks, Jinsong Huang, Vasilis Fthenakis, Yang Yang Halide perovskite photovoltaics (PVs) are poised to become a critical high-efficiency renewable energy technology in the fight against climate change. This perspective aims to ensure the viability of perovskite PV... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03289F, Paper Ya Chen, Xin Gao, Zheng Zhen, Xiao Chen, Ling Huang, Deli Zhou, Tengfei Hu, Bozhen Ren, Runjing Xu, Jiayi Chen, Xiaodong Chen, Lifeng Cui, Guoxiu Wang The electrochemical performance of all-solid-state Li metal batteries (ASSLMBs) can be prominently consolidated by resolving the challenges triggered by the uncontrolled growth of Li dendrites throughout the solid electrolytes (SEs).... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03705G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. 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. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03027C, Paper Tao Zhou, Jinze Wang, Ling Lv, Ruhong Li, Long Chen, Shuoqing Zhang, Haikuo Zhang, Baochen Ma, Jiajie Huang, Bing Wu, Lixin Chen, Tao Deng, Xiulin Fan Extending the charging cutoff voltage of lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) cathode is an effective strategy to enhance energy density of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), while the formation of poor cathode electrolyte... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03166K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. 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. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03160A, Paper Tongtai Ji, Qingsong Tu, Yang Zhao, Dominik Wierzbicki, Vincent Plisson, Ying Wang, Jiwei Wang, Kenneth Burch, Yong Yang, Hongli Zhu The investigation of all-solid-state sodium-sulfur batteries (ASSSBs) is still in its early stage, where the intermediates and mechanism of the complex 16-electron conversion reaction of the sulfur cathode remain unclear.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03418J, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. 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. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript 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 MnO2 is considered a promising cathode for aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs), whereas suffering from the dilemma that it demonstrates high specific capacities at small loading masses but sharp capacity... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03482A, Paper Zhaohui Yang, Lan Chen, Yijun Yin, Chenyang Wei, Zhimin Xue, Tiancheng Mu 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural electrooxidation reaction (HMFOR) has recently garnered significant attention in the field of biomass conversion. However, the sluggish kinetics of HMFOR cause gridlock in energy conversion efficiency. Herein, we pinpoint... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03468F, Review Article Zhi Zheng, Xue Fang, Wei Deng, Peng Li, Xiaobo Zheng, Hang Zhang, Lin Li, Shulei Chou, Yuan Chen, Yongbing Tang, Jiazhao Wang Rechargeable lithium (Li)-based batteries, including Li-ion batteries (LIBs) and Li-metal batteries (LMBs), are essential energy storage devices. However, their electrochemical performance in practical applications is affected by Li electroplating characters... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04224G, Analysis Xusheng Wang, Longfei Shao, Shouyi Hu, Zi Li, Hangzuo Guo, Jiaqi Zhang, Yingyan Zhao, Xi Lin, Binjian Nie, Zhigang Hu, Jianxin Zou The large-scale development of green hydrogen energy offers a critical solution to the challenges posed by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global climate change. Conducting an early technical and economic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03102D, Paper Dongmin Li, Yunpeng Zhong, Xieyu Xu, Daren Zhou, Yan Tang, Liangbing Wang, Shuquan Liang, Bingan Lu, Yangyang Liu, Jiang Zhou Zn metal batteries (ZBs) are considered promising candidates for next-generation energy storage systems. Cyclic reversibility of ZBs is strictly associated with the interfacial evolution of the Zn anode during the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02916J, Paper Jinye Li, Chengjun Lei, Pengjie Jiang, Chen Xu, Tingting Liu, Xiao Liang Tellurium (Te) is a promising high-capacity electrode material for aqueous zinc-ion batteries, capable of multi-electron redox reactions. However, the inherent hydrolysis of oxidized Te4+ exhibits significant polarization during redox, rendering... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03888F, Paper Sverre Stefanussen Foslie, Brage Rugstad Knudsen, Sigurd Bjarghov, Magnus Korpås Industrial decarbonization requires substantial electricity and grid infrastructure. Policies are developed and significant funds are being directed to decarbonize electricity generation and incentivize investments in renewable energy. Expansion of the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03628J, Review Article Yida Hu, Peiyuan Wang, Mingzhu Li, Zhexuan Liu, Shuquan Liang, Guozhao Fang Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) maintain expectations in the field of clean and safe large-scale energy storage, but their realistic industrial practicality remains a critical challenge. The efforts to pursue a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02989E, Review Article Pan Zhou, Yong Xiang, Kai Liu Donor number plays an essential role in deciding lithium salt solubility and the Li + solvation structure, thus influencing the electrode interphase, reaction pathways and kinetics in lithium metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03191A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Dong Guo, Simil Thomas, Jehad El-Demellawi, Zixiong Shi, Zhiming Zhao, Christian G Canlas, Yongjiu Lei, Jian Yin, Yaping Zhang, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Muhammad Arsalan, Yunpei Zhu, Osman M. Bakr, Omar F F. Mohammed, Husam N. Alshareef Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are deemed one of the most promising high-energy battery technologies. However, their operation under thermal extremes, e.g., subzero and above 60 °C, remains largely underexplored. Especially, high... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02301C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Wenhua Xue, Jian Ye, Zhi Zhu, Reeti Kumar, Jun Zhao The photocatalytic conversion of biomass into valuable chemicals offers a more energy-efficient and low-carbon alternative to traditional thermal catalysis, representing a promising strategy for fine chemicals production without relying on... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02909G, Paper Guowei Gao, Xiaomei Huo, Boxin Li, Jingxuan Bi, Zhenkai Zhou, Zhuzhu Du, Wei Ai, Wei Huang By constructing a hydrogel film doped with an ionic liquid on a Zn anode, a water-scarce inner Helmholtz plane and a Zn ion-enriched outer Helmholtz plane is developed, which effectively enables a stable zinc anode for Ah-scale Zn metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02827A, Paper Xuanyi Zhou, Biao Zhang, Pengbo Lyu, Lei Xi, Fangkun Li, Zengsheng Ma, Min Zhu, Jun Liu All-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) based on LiNi1-x-yCoxMnyO2 cathode suffer from rock-ribbed electrolyte-cathode interface issues such as oxygen escape and side reactions with electrolyte at high operating voltage, result in severe... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03130J, Paper Jihoon Oh, Seung Ho Choi, Heejin Kim, Ji Young Kim, Geung-Jong Lee, Ki Yoon Bae, Taegeun Lee, Nohjoon Lee, Yeeun Sohn, Woo Jun Chung, Jang Wook Choi Anode-less all-solid-state batteries (ALASSBs) offer unparalleled energy density and enhanced safety. ALASSB cells usually incorporate a protective layer on the anode current collector to stabilize lithium (Li) deposition, yet are... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02519A, Paper Shunzhang You, Qiaobao Zhang, Junxiang Liu, Qiang Deng, Zhefei Sun, Dandan Cao, Tongchao Liu, Khalil Amine, Chenghao Yang Pore structure of hard carbon plays a great role impact on its Na+ storage capacity. Here, a waste wood derived hard carbon with opened pores (OP-HC) has been fabricated with... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01622J, Paper Yaqing Guo, Yonggang Yao, Chi Guo, Yaduo Song, Pengjie Huang, Xiaobin Liao, Kun He, Hao Zhang, Hanwen Liu, Rong Hu, Wei Wang, Cheng Li, Shun Wang, Anmin Nie, Yifei Yuan, Yunhui Huang We introduce the atomistic observation and high-temperature shock to trigger Li–Fe reordering in LiFePO 4 , which offers a precise and efficient pathway for direct LiFePO 4 recycling and regeneration, along with significant techno-economic benefits. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02262A, Review Article Yingying Li, Jian Zhang, Xiulai Chen This review comprehensively discusses microbial conversion of CO 2 to organic compounds. The efficiency of CO 2 fixation can be improved by mining CO 2 -fixing enzymes, developing CO 2 -fixing pathways and optimizing CO 2 -fixing microbial cell factories. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02350A, Review Article Baoshan Xie, Shuai Du, Ruzhu Wang, Xiaoxue Kou, Jiatong Jiang, Chuanchang Li The heat pump integrated with latent heat storage is an efficient heat decarbonization technology for improving of thermal energy storage efficiency in terms of quantity and quality using renewable energy and off-peak electricity. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02510E, Paper Xiaoyun Xu, Songmei Li, Shubin Yang, Bin Li Flexible zinc metal batteries are one of the most promising candidates for future energy storage devices, howbeit their performance is hampered by current hydrogel electrolyte of low ionic conductivity and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02479F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Kun Ryu, Kyungbin Lee, Jeonghoon Lim, Michael J. Lee, Keun-Hee Kim, Un Hwan Lee, Bernardine Rinkel, Kyungmo Kim, Soohyun Kim, Dayoung Kim, Dongseok Shin, Bryan D. McCloskey, Joonhee Kang, Seung Woo Lee Electrolyte engineering is crucial for advancing lithium (Li) metal batteries (LMBs). Currently, unstable electrode-electrolyte interfaces limit the stable cycling of LMBs. Here, we introduce an additive engineering approach aimed at... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02996H, Paper Jiarui He, Amruth Bhargav, Arumugam Manthiram Sodium–metal batteries (SMBs) are an appealing sustainable low–cost alternative to lithium–metal batteries due to their high theoretical capacity (1,165 mA h g−1) and abundance of sodium. However, the practical viability of SMBs is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02302A, Paper Haotian Lu, Ao Du, Xiaoping Lin, Ziyi Zhang, Sisi Liu, Yuansen Xie, Wenhao Li, Jianwei Song, Yuhao Lu, Wei Chen, Chunpeng Yang, Quanhong Yang Batteries with increasing energy density have boosted the development of electric vehicles with longer driving ranges but are also arousing safety concerns, especially thermal runaway, which impede their large-scale application.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03065F, Review Article Kejian Kong, Hao Zhang, Ali Han, Feng Li, Dingsheng Wang The pursuit of clean and sustainable energy has become more urgent than ever. Photocatalysis is a promising approach to converting highly sustainable solar energy to promising fuels. Additionally, effective and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02816C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Xue Bai, Mingzi Sun, Jun Yang, Bijian Deng, Kai Yang, Bolong Huang, Weiguo Hu, Xiong Pu Zinc metal batteries (ZMBs) are highly promising devices for large-scale energy storage applications. However, the commonly used aqueous electrolyte often leads to issues such as hydrogen evolution, narrow temperature range,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01759E, Paper Shuo Yang, Liang Mei, Zhuoxi Wu, Jiaxiong Zhu, Pei Li, Hu Hong, Zhiyuan Zeng, Hongfei Li, Funian Mo, Chunyi Zhi In pursuing zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) with extended lifetimes, considerable research has been devoted to enhancing their stability, specifically cycling stability, by developing stable cathodes and Zn anodes. However, the durability,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02707H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Lirong Dong, Shudi Qiu, Sarmad Feroze, Michael Wagner, Olga Kasian, Heiko Peisert, Felix U. Kosasih, Caterina Ducati, José Garcia Cerrillo, Jingjing Tian, Chaohui Li, Dongju Jang, Vincent M. Le Corre, Ning Li, Fu Yang, Tian Du, Christoph J. Brabec, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf SAM enabled and simplified fully printed carbon-based flexible perovskite modules. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02308K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Antonia Herzog, Martina Rüscher, Hyo Sang Jeon, Janis Timoshenko, Clara Rettenmaier, Uta Hejral, Earl Matthew Davis, Felix Thomas Haase, David Kordus, Stefanie Kühl, Wiebke Frandsen, Arno Bergmann, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya Pulsed electrochemical CO 2 reduction (CO 2 RR) has emerged as a facile way to alter the product selectivities toward desired multicarbon products, but so far, it has been mainly applied to monometallic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02293A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Panpan Jing, Mengting Liu, Hsin-Pei Ho, Yifan Ma, Weibo Hua, Haohui Li, Nan Guo, Yong Ding, Weilin Zhang, Hailong Chen, Bote Zhao, Jenghan Wang, Meilin Liu A tailored Wadsley–Roth crystallographic shear structure containing inspiring domains with tetrahedron, tetrahedron-free and large-size blocks in the lattice of novel titanium niobium tungsten oxide for high-power lithium-ion batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02358G, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yang Luo, Zhonghao Rao, Xiaofei Yang, Changhong Wang, Xueliang Sun, Xianfeng Li Solid-state lithium-metal batteries (SSLMBs) with high energy density and improved safety have been widely considered ideal next-generation energy storage devices for long-range electric vehicles. Nevertheless, the potential safety issues in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02097A, Communication Lu Lin, Zhiqing Xue, Tong Qiu, Jiaqi Zhu, Guoli Zhang, Hongtu Zhan, Kuo Wang, Xiaoqi Sun A phenyl cross-linked tri- p -benzoquinone cathode realizes 150 000 cycle life with 143 mA h g −1 capacity retained at 100 A g −1 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02218A, Paper Jiayu Zheng, Lingyan Duan, Hang Ma, Qi An, Qing Liu, Yongjiang Sun, Genfu Zhao, Hanlin Tang, Yang Li, Shimin Wang, Qijun Xu, Lilian Wang, Hong Guo Polymer electrolytes are considered one of the most pragmatic choices for achieving lithium metal batteries (LMBs) with enhanced energy density and safety. Nevertheless, unsatisfactory comprehensive performance in terms of inadequate... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02697G, Paper Sicong Qiao, Guikai Zhang, Dong Tian, Wenjie Xu, Wei Jiang, Yuyang Cao, Jun Qian, Jing Zhang, Qun He, Li Song The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into formate holds great promise. However, the ongoing competition of parallel reactions, including the generation of hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO), and multi-carbon... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01641F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Fayas Malik Kanchiralla, Selma Brynolf, Alvar Mjelde This study analyses different decarbonization strategies for shipping including uptake of e-fuels, blue fuels and biofuels, battery electric propulsion and onboard carbon capture technology from a life cycle perspective. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01824A, Paper Chencheng Dai, Qian Wu, Tianze Wu, Yuwei Zhang, Libo Sun, Xin Wang, Adrian C. Fisher, Zhichuan J. Xu An innovative acid–alkali asymmetric cell design to suppress the crossover of liquid products and facilitate glycerol oxidation reaction. It can also impede C–C bond cleavage to promote high-value C3 products generation and reduce carbon emission. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01898B, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Sara Baumann, Giles E. Eperon, Alessandro Virtuani, Quentin Jeangros, Dana B. Sulas-Kern, Dounya Barrit, Jackson Schall, Wanyi Nie, Gernot Oreski, Mark Khenkin, Carolin Ulbrich, Robby Peibst, Joshua S. Stein, Marc Köntges Perovskite solar cells have shown a strong increase in efficiency over the last 15 years. With a record power conversion efficiency on small area above 34%, perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01435A, Paper Jing Li, Shiyan Chen, Xiangyang Qu, Zhiliang Han, Zhou Zhou, Lili Deng, Yuhang Jia, Shengming Zhang, Ruimin Xie, Huaping Wang A thermoelectric device can directly convert heat to electricity, but its operation requires a temperature difference between the two electrodes of the thermocell. Unfortunately, the potential difference between the two... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02592J, Paper Yuting Xu, Minghao Zhang, Rong Tang, Siyang Li, Chenxi Sun, Zeheng Lv, Wenhao Yang, Zhipeng Wen, Chengchao Li, Xue Li, Yang Yang Aqueous zinc-iodine batteries are of considerable interest for stationary energy storage because of safety and cost-effectiveness. Nonetheless, the unstable Zn anode/electrolyte interface and shuttling of polyiodides during cycling have hinered... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02823F, Paper Iuliia Kukula, Ivan Ermanoski, Ellen B Stechel Increasing electrification and extensive expansion of renewable energy technologies bring about expectations of increased demand for copper and a corresponding increase in the total energy consumption for copper mining. This... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02365J, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hao Zhang, Lei Chen, Feng Dong, zhiwen lu, Enmin Lv, Xing-Long Dong, Huanxin Li, Zhong-Yong Yuan, Xinwen Peng, Shihe Yang, Jieshan Qiu, Zhengxiao Guo, Zhenhai Wen Active sites play a pivotal role in photo/electrocatalysis, particularly in the transition from fossil fuels to clean, efficient and renewable energy sources. Precise identification of catalyst active sites and understanding... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01936A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jinglin Jiang, Jorge Ontaneda, Subhajit Pal, Zhenyu Guo, Chloe Forrester, Kaitian Zheng, Mengnan Wang, Joe Briscoe, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Heather Au Lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a promising technology due to their high energy density and low cost. However, the polysulfide shuttle effect remains a significant cause of degradation in Li-S... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02356K, Paper Donglian Wen, Jie Zhao, Yang You, Liang Huang, Haoheng Zhu, Chuanghui Zhang, Donglei Bu, Shaoming Huang Photocatalytic CO2 reduction to formate suffers from poor productivity, selectivity, stability and recyclability. To conquer these drawbacks, a new facile strategy has been utilized to create regenerative in situ formed... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01705F, Paper Xinrong Yang, Yuan Gao, Lin-Yong Xu, Xiaohei Wu, Xingyu Chen, Yiming Shao, Bo Xiao, Shanshan Liu, Jianlong Xia, Rui Sun, Jie Min A highly efficient and stable all-small-molecule system with excellent thickness tolerance and recycling capability has been developed, by integrating a new giant molecule acceptor (Se-Giant) into the MPhS-C2:BTP-eC9 binary system. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01993H, Paper Huan Xia, Wei Zhang, Chunyang Miao, Hao Chen, Chengjie Yi, Yihan Shang, Tao Shui, Xin Cao, Jiacheng Liu, Song-Zhu Kure-Chu, Feifei Liang, Nosipho Moloto, Yipeng Xiong, Takehiko Hihara, Wei Bing Lu, Zhengming Sun Hydrogel electrolytes are the ideal platform to construct flexible zinc-ion batteries. However, they usually require immersion in salt solutions to the swollen state for high ion transportation, resulting in a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01659A, Paper Zonghao Wu, Beibei Shi, Jiangsheng Yu, Mengzhen Sha, Jiangkai Sun, Dongcheng Jiang, Xin Liu, Wenxiao Wu, Yang Tan, Huiyuan Li, Shufen Huang, Jingjing Wang, Junwei Liu, Chao Zhang, Xiaoling Ma, Liyong Cui, Long Ye, Fujun Zhang, Bingqiang Cao, Yuguo Chen, Ziwu Ji, Feng Chen, Xiao-Tao Hao, Gang Li, Hang Yin Semitransparent photovoltaic (ST-PV) devices transmitting enough light and generating electricity are one of the research frontiers in emerging PV systems involving organic, perovskite, quantum dot and dye-sensitized solar cells in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01547A, Paper Tianyu Huang, Fan Xu, Jiangbin Hu, Jiang Wu, Shunde Li, Peng Chen, Xiaohan Jia, qiuyang Li, Haoming Yan, Yongqiang Ji, Deying Luo, dengke wang, Juntao Hu, Hao-Hsin Chen, zhangyuchang lu, hongyu Xu, Lei Li, Rui Sha, Qixuan Zhong, Xinyu Bai, M. Ibrahim Dar, Tinglu Song, Zikun Li, Xiaoyu Yang, Lichen Zhao, Zhenghong Lu, Qihuang Gong, Rui Zhu Wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) attract intensive attention because of their high tandem compatibility and versatile application scenarios. However, severe interfacial non-radiative recombination of mixed-ion WBG perovskite films was... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01777C, Paper Zhongyuan Huang, Ziwei Chen, Maolin Yang, Mihai Chu, Zenan Li, Sihao Deng, Lunhua He, Lei Jin, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Rui Wang, Jun Wang, Tingting Yang, Yinguo Xiao Recently, considerable efforts have been made on research and improvement for Ni-rich lithium-ion batteries to meet the demand from vehicles and grid-level large-scale energy storage. Development of next-generation high-performance lithium-ion... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE90044H, Editorial We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Energy & Environmental Science in 2023, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to the journal. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02060J, Review Article Zhenxin Huang, Zichun Xiao, Ruoshan Jin, Zhen Li, Chengyong Shu, Renyi Shi, Xiaowei Wang, Zexun Tang, Wei Tang, Yuping Wu Lithium/sodium metal batteries (LMBs/SMBs) possess immense potential for various applications due to their high energy density. Nevertheless, the LMBs/SMBs are highly susceptible to the detrimental effects of unstable solid electrolyte... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01750A, Paper Weiwei Zhang, Bin Song, Mingli Wang, Tingting Miao, Xiang-Long Huang, Erhuan Zhang, Xiaowen Zhan, Yue Yang, Hong Zhang, Ke Lu The designed york–shell structured MnHCF/PPy@MnO 2 coaxial nanotubes cooperatively catalyze the conversion of interchannel encapsulated active species within the confined environment, regulating the reversible quasi-solid sulfur conversion. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02330G, Paper Zhenmin Zhao, Sein Chung, Young Yong Kim, Minyoung Jeong, Xin Li, Jingjing Zhao, Chaofeng Zhu, Safakath Karuthedath, Yufei Zhong, Kilwon Cho, Zhipeng Kan Polymorphism of nonfullerene acceptors enhances electron transport properties and potentially impacts the performance of organic electronic devices. However, their application in organic solar cells is limited by the required high-temperature... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01831A, Paper Yinghua Chen, Zheng Ma, Yuqi Wang, Pushpendra Kumar, Fei Zhao, Tao Cai, Zhen Cao, Luigi Cavallo, Haoran Cheng, Qian Li, Jun Ming Ether-based electrolytes have been extensively utilized in lithium metal batteries due to their superior compatibility with lithium metal. Nevertheless, the inferior high-voltage oxidation stability (> 4.0 V) hampers their practical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02096K, Paper Linyu Hu, Chunlong Dai, Yudong Zhu, Xu Hou, Zhimeng Liu, Xin Geng, Hailong Wang, Jing Chen, Nuo Sun, Qinlang Rong, Yuhao Zhu, Xin He, Yuanjing Lin Aqueous zinc-bromine (Zn-Br2) batteries feature operational safety, high-energy, and high-power densities, but suffer from polybromide dissolution in cathode and the low reversibility of Zn metal in the anode. Here, we... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00042K, Paper Navid Khodayar, Abolhassan Noori, Mohammad Safi Rahmanifar, Masumeh Moloudi, Nasim Hassani, Mehdi Neek-Amal, Maher El-Kady, Nahla B. Mohamed, Xinhui Xia, Yongqi Zhang, Richard B Kaner, Mir F. Mousavi The development of sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies is an effective approach to relieve the increasingly severe global energy crisis. Herein, a facile reductive electrosynthesis approach, using Pluronic P123... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00791C, Review Article Mengge Lv, Ran Zhao, Zhifan Hu, Jingjing Yang, Xiaomin Han, Yahui Wang, Chuan Wu, Ying Bai This review evaluates the binder design strategies for cathodes in advanced secondary batteries, offering clear guidance for the development of novel binders in terms of the failure behaviors of the cathode materials. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01463D, Paper Nan Li, Kun Gao, Ke Fan, Li Ma, Zihao Li, Baoluo He, Chao Shen, Qian Ye, Keyu Xie, Haitao Huang Regulating the nanoscale interfacial solvation structure involving the ion coordination in the electric double layer is of significant importance to the construction of stable and rapid ion-transport solid-electrolyte interphase for... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01748J, Review Article Guixiang Ding, Chunxue Li, Lihui Chen, Guangfu Liao Amidst the significant challenges posed by global climate change and the need for sustainable resource recycling, there is a pressing demand for the development of new materials that offer high... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00616J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Hannah E. Holmes, Sayan Banerjee, Anthony Vallace, Ryan P. Lively, Christopher W. Jones, Matthew J. Realff A direct air capture (DAC) economic model that accounts for sorbent degradation is developed. Experimentally-measured parameters are then integrated to identify sorbent and process features that minimize both the DAC carbon footprint and cost. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01560F, Paper Shuo Meng, Ting He, Lu Chen, Kexuan Liao, Hang Lu, Tingting Liu, Ruijin Meng, Jie Ma, Chi Zhang, Jinhu Yang Impregnating organic small molecules into porous carbon matrices is a prevailing strategy for aqueous zinc-organic batteries to address the problem of dissolution and conductivity of organic active materials for better... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01379D, Review Article Aoqiang Shu, Chencheng Qin, Miao Li, Luna Zhao, Zichen Shangguan, Zihan Shu, Xingzhong Yuan, Mingshan Zhu, Yan Wu, Hou Wang Photocatalysis is a highly efficient way of converting solar energy and has shown excellent promise in alleviating the growing energy crisis and environmental risks. However, achieving the desired solar energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01615G, Paper Swati Katiyar, Songyang Chang, Irfan Ullah, Wentao Hou, Amanda Conde-Delmoral, Shen Qiu, Gerardo Morell, Xianyong Wu Aqueous metal batteries represent a compelling avenue for energy storage solutions. Currently, research efforts are heavily concentrated on period 4 transition metals, starting from the prominent zinc to emerging candidates... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01474J, Perspective Kerui Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang, Feng Liu, Xiaozhang Zhu Solar energy utilization is a promising renewable technology for achieving efficient energy conversion. Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) have triggered wide interest in solar energy exploitation due to their multiple merits such... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01309C, Paper Yaqiong Li, Xuan Luo, Fang Zhang, Zhiyi Sun, Zihao Wei, Ziwei Deng, Ziheng Zhan, Chaofeng Zhao, Qi Sun, Liang Zhang, Wenxing Chen, Sheng-Hua Li, Si-Ping Pang The transition group metal catalysts showing atomic dispersion are on the rise as affordable electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cell batteries, but their activity in acidic media... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00800F, Paper Yangen Xie, Min Wang, Qiang Huang, Qing Huang, Bo Sheng, Wenjing Song, Hua Sheng, Jincai Zhao Artificial photosynthesis, which combines photocatalytic CO2 reduction with water oxidation to produce carbon-based fuels and feedstocks, has gained extensive interests nowadays. To optimize this system, a synergistic promotion of CO2... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01090F, Communication Melinda Krebsz, Rebecca Hodgetts, Sam Johnston, Cuong K. Nguyen, Yvonne Hora, Doug R. MacFarlane, Alexandr N Simonov The Li-mediated nitrogen reduction enables practical synthesis of ammonia, but its energy efficiency is limited by the Li0/+ redox potential. To improve on this, a mediator with a more positive... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01225A, Paper Yang Xiaodong, Yuwei Zhao, Shuangkun Lv, Leheng Zhong, Chencheng Yue, Shuai Zhan, Linwei Zhao, Chunfang Wang, Xuejin Li, Xiaoya Liu, Zijie Tang, Chunsun Zhang, Chunyi Zhi, Haiming Lv, Haiming Lv (Lyu) The electrode/electrolyte interface of inhomogeneous Zn deposition and water-induced side reactions have hampered the practical application of rechargeable Zn-ion batteries. By a strategy of anionic facilitation of macromolecule dissolution, we... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00896K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Haneul Choi, Jisu Shin, Changho Yeon, Sun-Young Park, Shin-Tae Bae, Ji Wan Kim, Jong-Ho Lee, Jin-Woo Park, Chan-Woo Lee, Kyung Joong Yoon, Hye Jung Chang Advanced transmission electron microscopy analysis uncovers the fundamental mechanisms behind nanometer-scale interfacial degradation phenomena in high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis cells. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00942H, Paper ruizhi zhang, Wei Kong Pang, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Jodie Yuwono, Guanjie Li, Yanqiu Lyu, Yameng Fan, Yunlong Zhao, Shilin Zhang, Jianfeng Mao, Qiong Cai, Sailin Liu, Zaiping Guo The aqueous zinc-ion battery (AZIB) is a promising option for grid-scale energy storage, but it faces challenges from parasitic water-related reactions and limited operational temperature range. Replacing H2O molecules in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01252F, Communication Yeji Lim, Yoon Jeong Yoo, Boran Kim, Suji Kim, Ga-Yoon Kim, Won-Hee Ryu Expediting electrochemical reactions that involve gaseous components is crucial for the development of diverse energy and environmental applications (batteries, electrochemical conversion, fuel cells, and gas sensors). Unfortunately, the intrinsically closed... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00970C, Paper Chuang Ji, Qingfeng Zhou, Yingyi Yuan, Wei Chen, Tao Hou, Bote Zhao, Yexia Qin, Xunhui Xiong Composing with various carbon matrixes has been proposed to overcome the poor electrochemical performances of red phosphorus (RP) anode caused by the low electronic conductivity and huge volume changes during... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00136B, Paper Chunlin Xie, Hao Wu, Kang Liang, Zhengping Ding, Jiawen Dai, Rui Zhang, Yurong Ren, Yixin Li, Dan Sun, Qi Zhang, Yougen Tang, Hai-Yan Wang The noteworthy benefits of zero-excess sodium metal batteries (ZSMBs) about energy density, sustainability, carbon footprint and cost, make them a promising supplement or even substitute for lithium-ion batteries. Nevertheless, the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01235F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Wenbo Huang, Juanwen Chen, Qingshan Ma, Linxiao Xing, Guiling Wang, Jiwen Cen, Zhibin Li, Ang Li, Fangming Jiang At medium-deep and deep depths of Earth crust lays vast and so far mostly untapped reserves of geothermal energy. This energy source has the potential of meeting humanity’s needs for... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00415A, Paper Hao Yu, Ang Gao, Xiaohui Rong, Shipeng Shen, Xinqi Zheng, Liqin Yan, Haibo Wang, Dan Su, Zilin Hu, Wang Hay Kan, Huaican Chen, Wen Yin, Yaxiang Lu, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Claude Delmas, Liquan Chen, Shouguo Wang, Yong-Sheng Hu The prismatic environment of the alkali metal ion is demonstrated to control plateau hysteresis in lattice oxygen redox materials. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01018C, Paper Kaiyue Zhu, Xiling Niu, Weili Xie, Hanmiao Yang, Weikang Jiang, Manxia Ma, Weishen Yang In zinc-ion batteries, the role of water in electrolytes is pivotal for enhancing the kinetics and capacity of the cathode; however, an excess of water leads to reduced stability of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00164H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jose Luis Osorio-Tejada, Marc Escribà-Gelonch, Rani Vertongen, Annemie Bogaerts, Volker Hessel Electrification and carbon capture technologies are essential for achieving net-zero emissions in the chemical sector. A crucial strategy involves converting captured CO2 into CO, a valuable chemical feedstock. This study... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00316K, Paper Daoyong Zhang, Biao Li, Pengjie Hang, Jiangsheng Xie, Yuxin Yao, Chenxia Kan, Xuegong Yu, Yiqiang Zhang, Deren Yang The large work function difference between indium tin oxide (ITO) and electron transporting layers (ETLs) in the n-i-p perovskite solar cells (PSCs) usually causes a front contact energy barrier (ΦFC),... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01366B, Paper Yue Hou, Zhiquan Wei, Zhuoxi Wu, Yiqiao Wang, Zhaodong Huang, Qing Li, Ze Chen, Xinliang Li, Pei Li, Huilin Cui, Guojin Liang, Chunyi Zhi Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) offer advantages in suppressing uncontrollable dendrite formation and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) at the Zn metal anode of Zn-based batteries, providing good electrochemical stability and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D3EE03270A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan Furszyfer Del Rio, Kyle Herman, Marfuga Iskandarova, Joao M. Uratani, Steve Griffiths This paper explores the benefits, barriers, and justice impacts of industrial decarbonization via hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) via European industrial firms located in UK clusters. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00561A, Minireview Mohsin Muhyuddin, Giovanni Zuccante, Piercarlo Mustarelli, Jonathan Filippi, Alessandro Lavacchi, Lior Elbaz, Yu-Han Chen, Plamen Atanassov, Carlo Santoro Complete decarbonization of hard-to-abate industrial sectors is critical to reach the carbon neutrality goal set for 2050. The production of nitrogen-containing fertilizers (N-fertilizers) is responsible for 2.1% of the overall... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00865K, Paper Muyang Chen, Tingting Niu, Lingfeng Chao, Xiaozheng Duan, Jingpei Wang, Tengfei Pan, Yajing Li, Junhan Zhang, Chenyue Wang, Biyun Ren, Lijuan Guo, Mohammad Hatamvand, Jing Zhang, Qingxun Guo, Yingdong Xia, Xingyu Gao, Yonghua Chen Preparation of low defect density FAPbI 3 perovskite thin films by adjusting the process temperature to −20 °C for high-performance perovskite solar cells. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00341A, Paper Xiaoru Zhao, Feng Zhang, Houzhen Li, Huitong Dong, Chuncheng Yan, Chao Meng, Yuanhua Sang, Hong Liu, Yu-Guo Guo, Shuhua Wang Manganese oxide (MnO2) has attracted significant attention for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) due to its excellent theoretical capacity and high output voltage. However, irreversible phase transitions, the manganese dissolution and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01258E, Paper Jiaqi Sang, Tianfu Liu, Pengfei Wei, Hefei Li, Conghui Liu, Yi Wang, Youwen Rong, Qi Wang, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao Cu-based catalysts selectively convert CO2/CO into valuable C2+ oxygenates and hydrocarbons electrochemically, which is regarded as a promising strategy for carbon cycle utilization. Herein, we synthesized CuxP2Ox+5 (x=2, 4, 5)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00445K, Review Article Farid Attar, Hang Yin, Simon Lennard Schumann, Julien Langley, Nicholas Cox, Zhiyuan Zeng, Kylie Catchpole, Siva Krishna Karuturi, Zongyou Yin New sustainable energy technologies are an important current research field, which aim to address the global environmental challenge caused by our excessive reliance on fossil fuels. Underpinning this field is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00086B, Paper Bo Yan, Hao Sun, Xueping Liu, Xinyuan Fu, Changqing Xu, Tiantian Zhang, Lu-Lu Zhang, Huachao Tao, Xifei Li, Xue-Lin Yang, Renheng Wang Self-supporting electrode materials play a pivotal role in advancing the progress of flexible potassium-ion batteries (PIBs). However, crafting self-supporting electrodes with unique compositions and structures to surmount the volume effect... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00219A, Paper Hua Zhang, Kang Xu, Yangsen Xu, Fan He, Feng Zhu, Kotaro Sasaki, Yongman Choi, Yu Chen Ammonia protonic ceramic fuel cells (NH3-PCFCs) are promising and attractive energy conversion devices owing to their high energy density, zero-carbon emission, and safety. Development of NH3-PCFCs, however, hinges largely on... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00949E, Paper Zhongyou Peng, Yuting Huang, Alexander G. Bannov, Shulong Li, Ling Tang, Licheng Tan, Yiwang Chen Although manganese oxides (MnO2) have been extensively studied for energy storage, further applications are limited due to its sluggish electron/ion transfer kinetics and insufficient active sites, especially under high-mass loading... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00938J, Paper Xiangqun Xu, Shiyong Chu, Sheng Xu, Shaohua Guo, Haoshen Zhou Employing lithium-rich oxides as cathode materials offers an ideal option for achieving high-energy all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs), while lithium-rich cathode materials are usually hard to directly match with solid-state electrolytes... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01316J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Huimin Wang, Mingzi Sun, Yongqiang Yang, Junhua Zhou, Lingtao Fang, Qiyao Huang, Bolong Huang, Zijian Zheng Rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries (AZBs) offer a safe and sustainable solution for large-scale energy storage, but the freezing of electrolytes prevents AZBs from working at low temperatures. Recent research shows... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05129G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Marc Escribà-Gelonch, Jose Luis Osorio-Tejada, Le Yu, Bart Wanten, Annemie Bogaerts, Volker Hessel This study combines for the first time techno-economic and life-cycle assessment metrics to evaluate the economic and environmental viability of plasma-assisted dry reforming of methane (DRM) for producing syngas from... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00823A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Pingxuan Liu, Ziyang Song, Qi Huang, Ling Miao, Yaokang Lv, Lihua Gan, Mingxian Liu All-organic ammonium-ion batteries (AOBs) with light organic electrodes and small-hydrated-sized NH4+ charge carriers are up-and-coming for next-generation energy storage. However, the low NH4+-accessible redox-active motifs of organics with high coordination... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05289G, Paper Xiancheng Wang, Bao Zhang, Zihe Chen, Shiyu Liu, Wenyu Wang, Shuibin Tu, Renming Zhan, Li Wang, Yongming Sun The low-density, high-porosity lithium (Li) plating layer at the anode is one of the principal determinants of the overall volumetric expansion in rechargeable high-energy-density Li metal batteries, which account for... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01478F, Paper Ran Han, Yuefeng Meng, Xin Zhao, Yao Wang, Mingkun Tang, Yichen Ding, Baohua Li, Dong Zhou, Feiyu Kang The high freezing point and poor anode stability of traditional aqueous electrolytes strongly hamper the cyclability and working temperature range of zinc (Zn) metal batteries (ZMBs). Herein, we demonstrate a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05691D, Paper Kang Ji, Shiyu Wang, Shuyun Yao, Yingjie Ji, Guixi Wang, Weikun Ren, Jun Wang, Feike Zhang, Jiangzhou Xie, Zhiyu Yang, Yi-Ming Yan The local electric field weakens the hydrogen-bond network and enhances H 2 O transport. The built-in electric field creates electron-deficient sites, improving the adsorption of N 2 H 4 . Finally, a self-powered zero-carbon energy system was built. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00725A, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Fangyuan Cheng, Jun Hu, Wen Zhang, Peng Yu, Xueliang Sun, Jian Peng, Baiyu Guo The development of ether-based electrolytes has significant challenges, primarily caused by the irreversible co-intercalation of ether and Li+ into commercial graphite, which excluded ether from use in commercial lithium-ion batteries... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00412H, Paper Feng Jiang, Yun-Fei Du, Jia-Xin Guo, Nai-Lu Shen, Zi-Xian Chen, Mei Geng, Dongsheng Ren, Bo-Quan Li, Xue-Qiang Zhang, Tao Wang, Yuan Ma, Yiren Zhong, Jiarui He, Zhi Zhu, Faxing Wang, Jia-Qi Huang, Xin-Bing Cheng, Yuping Wu The high-activity lithium metal anode limits the practical application of lithium-sulfur batteries in terms of both electrochemical performance and thermal safety. Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) as a physical barrier between... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04820B, Review Article Boligarla Vinay, Yosef Nikodimos, Tripti Agnihotri, Shadab Ali Ahmed, Teklay Mezgebe Hagos, Rehbar Hasan, Elango Balaji Tamilarasan, Wei-Nien Su, Bing Joe Hwang Electrolytes play a pivotal role in battery technologies, influencing performance and safety. However, electrolytes containing fluorine present adverse environmental risks due to their high greenhouse gas emissions and caution of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05584E, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Junming Kang, Jiajia Zhang, Wan Wang, Zhimin Zhai, Ganxiong Liu, Ying Ge, Lequan Wang, Chao Wang, Hongbin Lu Aqueous zinc-iodine (Zn-I 2 ) batteries are highly desirable for grid energy storage but subjected to polyiodide shuttling, which leads to low Coulombic efficiency (less than 98%), severe self-discharge (over 10% after... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01086A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Moonsu Yoon, Jin-sung Park, Weiyin Chen, Yimeng Huang, Tao Dai, Yumin Lee, Jungmin Shin, Seungmi Lee, Yongil Kim, Dongsoo Lee, Daiha Shin, Jaephil Cho, Yanhao Dong, Ju Li The rapid growth in lithium-ion battery technology underscores the urgent need for sustainable recycling to address the environmental and economic challenges of battery wastes. This study introduces a liquified-salts-assisted upcycling... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04564E, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Muhammad Ali, Abubakar Isah, Nurudeen Yekeen, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, Rita Okoroafor, Mohammed Al Kobaisi, Mohamed Mahmoud, Volker Vahrenkamp, Hussein Hoteit With the global population anticipated to reach 9.9 billion by 2050 and rapid industrialization and economic growth, global energy demand is projected to increase by nearly 50%. Fossil fuels meet... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05789A, Paper Shengyao Luo, Mengqi Wu, Said Amzil, Tonghui Xu, Qing Ming, Lei Zhang, Jie Gao, Shuang Tian, Donghai Wang, Yisen Qian, Ya-Jun Cheng, Yonggao Xia Isopropyl acetate causes and promotes ion enrichment in the Helmholtz layer, facilitating the 15C super-fast charging of lithium batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00041F, Paper Fanteng Meng, Yutong Li, Shitong Wang, Dong Luo, Xinghao Zhang, Manfred Wagner, Zilong Tang, Yanpeng Li, Debin Kong, Linjie Zhi Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) suffer from severe capacity degradation and shortened cycle life at low operating temperatures due to sluggish Li+ diffusion kinetics within the bulk phase of large-sized electrode materials,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00211G, Paper Jianlong Wang, Zheng Yang, Zhenjie Wang, Xinxian Wang, Yanrui Zhao, Jinbiao Ma, Hengyu Li, Yang Yu, Zhong Lin Wang, Tinghai Cheng With the challenges of monitoring marine environmental pollution, developing in-situ energy harvesting technologies for self-powered marine sensing nodes has become increasingly urgent for effective environmental protection. As an effective approach... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00237K, Paper Kefeng Ouyang, Sheng Chen, Lidong Yu, Hongyu Qin, Ao Liu, Youfa Liu, Quan Wu, Bingjie Ran, Shubing Wei, Fei Gao, Kun Zhang, Jin Hu, Yan Huang A diverse array of Zn metal batteries (ZMBs) is swiftly emerging as a prominent force in the energy storage sector. The electrolyte modification is integral to improving ZMB performance by... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE90031J, Correction Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan Furszyfer Del Rio, Kyle Herman, Marfuga Iskandarova, Joao M. Uratani, Steve Griffiths To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05689B, Paper Zhongbin Pan, Yu Cheng, Zhicheng Li, Pang Xi, Peng Wang, Xu Fan, Hanxi Chen, Jinjun Liu, Junfei Luo, Jinhong Yu, Minhao Yang, Jiwei Zhai, Weiping Li Electrostatic capacitors are typically necessary to operate in harsh-temperature environments to fulfill the demanding requirements of renewable energy, electrified transportations, and advanced propulsion systems. However, achieving exceptional capacitive performance in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00273G, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hao Zhang, Suwen Wang, Enmin Lv, menghui qi, Chengchao He, Xing-Long Dong, Jieshan Qiu, Yong Wang, Zhenhai Wen The transition to renewable energy sources and the need for efficient energy conversion technologies have led to the development of various types of catalysts, among which atomically dispersed metal catalysts... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05866F, Paper Shaojie Zhang, Zhongpeng Li, Yixin Zhang, Xuanpeng Wang, Peiyang Dong, Saihai Lei, Weihao Zeng, Juan Wang, Xiaobin Liao, Xingye Chen, Dongqi Li, Shichun Mu Gel polymer electrolytes with moderate Li + -solvent binding (MB-GPE) achieve an optimal balance between weak solvation modulation and lithium-ion transport performance, leading to long-term stable cycling of lithium–metal batteries (LMBs). To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00132C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Kun Zhang, Yijia Yuan, Gang Wang, Fangzheng Chen, Li Ma, Chao Wu, Jia Liu, Bao Zhang, Chenglin Li, Hongtian Liu, Changan Lu, Shibo Xi, Xing Li, Keyu Xie, Junhao Lin, Kian Ping Loh Rechargeable aqueous zinc metal-based batteries present a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries due to their lower operating potentials, higher capacities, intrinsic safety, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. However, the use... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05845C, Paper Yun Cao, Chuannan Geng, Chen Bai, Linkai Peng, Jiaqi Lan, Jiarong Liu, Junwei Han, Bilu Liu, Yanbing He, Feiyu Kang, Quan-Hong Yang, Wei Lv A micropore confinement and fusion strategy is proposed to eliminate the interfacial mismatch and achieve molecular-level integrated catalysis interfaces for long-life all-solid-state Li–S batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06171C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yi Yuan, yang Hu, Yi Gan, Zhi Liang Dong, Yijia Wang, Enzhong Jin, Mingrui Yang, Frederick Benjamin Holness, Vinicius Martins, Qingsong Tu, Yang Zhao Sulfide electrolytes have emerged as the preferred choice for solid-state sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries due to their excellent compatibility with sulfur cathodes. Despite their advantages, such as high ionic conductivity, mechanical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05818F, Paper Junru Wu, Ziyao Gao, Zhiqiang Fu, Lili Lin, Xianshu Wang, Yun Zhao, Lele Peng, Feiyu Kang, Zhenyu Guo, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Yunlong Zhao, Xiulin Fan, Baohua Li Raising the cut-off voltage to 4.6 V can boost the energy density of lithium metal batteries (LMBs) with LiCoO2 cathode. However, the unfavorable cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) formed on high-voltage... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00158G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jichao Zhai, Wang Zhao, Lei Wang, Jianbo Shuai, Ruwei Chen, Wenjiao Ge, Yu Zong, Guanjie He, Xiaohui Wang The increasing demand for personalized health monitoring has driven the development of wearable electronics. Flexible zinc-ion batteries (FZIBs) are ideal power sources for wearable devices, but their low volumetric energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00269A, Paper Bo Jiang, Boyang Yu, Yong Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Baomin Xu, Xinyan Zhao Printing of electrodes to replace thermal evaporation of metals for back contacts in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is essential for scalable manufacturing. However, PSCs incorporating printed electrodes typically exhibit lower... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00116A, Review Article Pengcheng Du, Tianhao Liu, Tuoyu Chen, Meihui Jiang, Hongyu Zhu, Yitong Shang, Hui Hwang Goh, Zhao HaiSen Zhao HaiSen, Chao Huang, Fannie Kong, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Kai Chen Goh, Yu Du, Dongdong Zhang Vehicle-to-Grid accelerates the transition to renewable, low-carbon power systems by integrating electric vehicles. This study analyzes the 2023 U.S. electric vehicle charging demand, variable renewable energy capacities, and charging infrastructure... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05140H, Paper Gaofeng Du, Shuhao Wang, Zhaoming Tong, Xinyu Ji, Xinqi Wei, Quanbin Zha, Tianyou Zhai, Huiqiao Li We used dual thermal stimulation to prepare a uniform and dense mixed interface, achieving strong adhesion between the solid-state electrolyte and Na metal, thereby realizing the ultra-long cycling life of solid-state sodium metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04787G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Inwoo Kim, Hyunjae Kim, Seongha An, Jihoon Oh, Minsoo Kim, Jang Wook Choi Reliable battery management requires the degradation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) under variable usage patterns to be accurately and continuously monitored and predicted. However, the chemically entangled internal states and the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04927F, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Weihan Li, Minsi Li, Haoqi Ren, Jung Tae Kim, Ruying Li, Tsun-Kong Sham, Xueliang Sun Nitride solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) hold significant potential for addressing critical interfacial issues between SSEs and lithium metal in all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. These batteries are at the forefront of energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06106C, Paper Yongrong Li, Denghao Ouyang, Xi Liu, Yichen Zhang, Zhiqiang Niu, JunYong Zhu, Xuejun Pan, Xuebing Zhao Lignin, which is typically available as a by-product of pulping process and biomass biorefinery, is a sustainable feedstock for production of carbon fuels and materials. Here, we report a novel... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00612K, Paper Tao Li, Xinji Dong, Hange Yang, jianwei zhang, Rong Huang, Zhuoran Lv, Yueyue Li, Shi Cong Zhang, Fu Qiang Huang, Tian Quan Lin Cathode materials that exhibit high capacity, rapid charging, and long lifespan at high mass loading are crucial for the commercialization of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). However, challenges such as sluggish... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05527F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Shaochong Cao, Aiwen Zhang, Huayi Fang, Bingjian Feng, Yongshuai Liu, Pengshu Yi, Shan He, Zhouhong Ren, Longli Ma, Wenyi Lu, Mingxin Ye, Jianfeng Shen Rechargeable aqueous zinc-iodine (Zn-I2) batteries are cost-effective alternative candidates for conventional metal-based batteries due to their sustainability in fabrication and source. However, the issues of the shuttle effect of polyiodides... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00001G, Paper Weiyan Zhu, Zhouyue Lei, Peiyi Wu Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are promising energy storage systems due to their high theoretical capacity, intrinsic safety, and potentially high cycling stability. However, their practical application is hindered by sluggish... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05681G, Paper Jingui Zheng, Shaohan Xu, Lingzhi Sun, Xun Pan, Qihao Xie, Guohua Zhao The indium single atom of InN 3 affects the electronic properties of adsorption of CO 2 and HN(CH 3 ) 2 . This resulted in hydrogen transfer from HN(CH 3 ) 2 to CO 2 , generating the intermediate species of *N(CH 3 ) 2 and *COOH that are conducive to C–N coupling. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05153J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Ze Chen, Tong Liu, Zhiquan Wei, Yiqiao Wang, Ao Chen, Zhaodong Huang, Duanyun Cao, Nan LI, Chunyi Zhi Zn-based solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) hold immense potential for developing high-performance and safe zinc ion batteries (ZIBs) that can operate effectively even at high temperatures. However, typical plasticizers like ionic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05841K, Paper Wu Shao, Jie Sheng, Yufei Fu, Jingwen He, Zhihao Deng, Rong-hao Cen, Wenjun Wu Conventional aqueous processing of all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite solar cells has encountered significant limitations hindering performance optimization and long-term stability. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel dual-solvent engineering strategy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00202H, Paper Xinze Cai, Wanlin Wu, Bingyao Zhang, Wenlong Cai, Canhui Lu, Rui Xiong, Jiangqi Zhao, Jiang Zhou Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are emerging as an up-and-coming energy storage technology for wearable electronics due to their intrinsic safety, cost-effectiveness, and biocompatibility. Nevertheless, the uncontrolled deposition of the Zn... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04063E, Review Article Wenhao Xu, Libo Li, Yangmingyue Zhao, Suo Li, Hang Yang, Hao Tong, Zhixuan Wang Our work provides an overview of dual-ion batteries, focusing on interface engineering and stable electrolytes. We emphasize the potential of CEI and electrolyte design for DIB technology's application in safety and performance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06107A, Review Article Xiancheng Wang, Zihe Chen, Shiyu Liu, Shuibin Tu, Renming Zhan, Li Wang, Yongming Sun High energy density and exceptional fast-charging capability are emerging as critical technical parameters for lithium (Li)-based rechargeable batteries, aimed at meeting the increasing demands of advanced portable electronics, electric vehicles,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06191H, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Alireza Lotfollahzade Moghaddam, Sohrab Hejazi, Moslem Fattahi, Md Golam Kibria, Murray Thomson, Rashed AlEisa, Mohd Adnan Khan The global push to keep global warming to less than 1.5 ºC, will require us to quickly adopt zero-emission energy carriers. Hydrogen, a versatile energy vector, is pivotal in this... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05298F, Review Article Zheng Liu, Fan Feng, Wanchang Feng, Guanwen Wang, Bin Qi, Ming Gong, Fan Zhang, Huan Pang Eutectic electrolytes (EEs) have garnered significant attention in the field of metal-ion batteries due to their remarkable properties, including high flame retardancy and excellent thermal and electrochemical stability. Beyond the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06199C, Paper Jiaqi Zhang, Runying Dai, Jia Yang, Yikun Liu, Jianxin Yu, Licheng Tan, Yiwang Chen The non-homogeneity of nickel oxide (NiOx) nanoparticles (NPs) and the problematic interlayer interconnectivity with perovskite film are the current major bottlenecks for the further development of corresponding perovskite solar cells... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05739B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Zhiming Zhao, Georgian Melinte, Dong Guo, Yongjiu Lei, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Xianrong Guo, Zixiong Shi, Yizhou Wang, Jehad El-Demellawi, Wenli Zhao, Husam N. Alshareef The practical options for polymer electrolytes (PEs) are predominantly confined to polyether matrices, which unfortunately falter at voltages exceeding 4 V. Herein, we introduce a pioneering approach using polyamide (PA,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00075K, Review Article Xuejin Li, Pengyun Liu, Cuiping Han, Tonghui Cai, Yongpeng Cui, Wei Xing, Chunyi Zhi Aqueous metal batteries are advantageous in providing high energy density and excellent compatibility with various cathode materials, attracting more attention. However, the corrosion of metallic anodes seriously deteriorates the battery... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05894A, Paper Tiantian Wang, Yuao Wang, Peng Cui, Heshun Geng, Yusheng Wu, Fang Hu, Junhua You, Kai Zhu The electrolyte concentration plays a pivotal role in determining the efficacy of rechargeable batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,1205-1213 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03893B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Sang Won Lee, Tae Heon Nam, Seok Hee Lee, Tatsumi Ishihara, John T. S. Irvine, Tae Ho Shin We propose an ultrasonic spraying strategy for the one-step fabrication of uniform nano-electrodes with a nano-convex structure on an all-ceramic fuel electrode, enhancing both activity and durability. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05509H, Paper Jiaping Niu, Junyuan Dong, Xiaohu Zhang, Lang Huang, Guoli Lu, Xiaolei Han, Jinzhi Wang, Tianyu Gong, Zheng Chen, Jingwen Zhao, Guanglei Cui This study reveals that quasi-metallic sodium clusters in hard carbon possess an electron state density even higher than that of metallic sodium, making them more susceptible to triggering thermal runaway compared to lithium in graphite. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05862C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Huiqun Wang, Yuxiang Mao, Peng Xu, Yu Ding, Huiping Yang, Jian-Feng Li, Yu Gu, Jiajia Han, Li Zhang, Bingwei Mao Depositing a uniform lithium metal layer on a highly conductive current collector (CC) is essential for the development of next-generation Li metal batteries (LMBs). However, poor cycling stability, low Coulombic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05232C, Paper Xi Fan, Jiwen Chen, Jinzhao Wang, Jing Wang, Jixi Zeng, Feng Wei, Shuai Gao, Jia Li, Jing Zhang, Feng Yan, Weijie Song Additives with strong adsorption energies coordinate with lead ions and reduce halogen vacancy defects, leading to a highly ordered atomic arrangement of the lattices and grain boundary mitigation of the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05179C, Paper Lawnardo Sugiarto, Zijie Huang, Yi-Chun Lu Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are highly sensitive to cycling conditions and show a nonlinear degradation pattern, typically noticeable in later stages. This affects the accuracy of most battery health prognostic models,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04739G, Paper Xiaoxin Li, Chao Deng, Rong Chen, Xu Li, Furong Xie, Zinan Wu, Yu Xie, Song Wang, Guo-Ming Weng Reducing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is a critical issue that requires sustainable, energy-efficient and scalable solutions. Electrochemical carbon dioxide capture and release with redox active molecule has drawn an... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05110F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Zhiyu Zou, Yongbiao Mu, Meisheng Han, Youqi Chu, Jie Liu, Kunxiong Zheng, Qing Zhang, Manrong Song, JIAN Qinping, Yilin Wang, Hengyuan Hu, Fenghua Yu, Wenjia Li, Lei Wei, Lin Zeng, Tianshou Zhao The practical application of Na 3 V 2 (PO 4 ) 3 , a polyanionic cathode for sodium-ion batteries, is constrained by its poor electronic conductivity, limited specific capacity, and slow kinetics. In this study, an integrated polyanion-layered... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05796A, Paper Hao Yin, Jili Yuan, Jun Wang, Shiwei Hu, Pingshan Wang, Haibo Xie The desired salt-free neutral H2O2 electrosynthesis via a 2-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e−-ORR) remains challenging due to the absence of efficient electrocatalysts and its well-matched practical process. Herein we report... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05044D, Paper Chaojiang Niu, Ruiting Guo, Xiong Liu, Kun Ni, Fan-Jie Xia, Huazhang Zhang, Yu Liu, Xinzhe Dai, Litong Shi, Xuanpeng Wang, Chunhua Han, Liqiang Mai Current research focuses on regulating Zn plating behavior to address dendrite issue. Although significant improvements in the lifespans of symmetric batteries have been achieved, full batteries do not demonstrate a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02619E, Comment Chaojing Lu, Xinyu Wang The presence of scarce (101)-oriented F:SnO 2 grains in the fluorine-doped SnO 2 layer with a slight (100) texture seems insufficient to drive predominantly (001)-oriented growth of a BiVO 4 photoanode through the alleged microscale epitaxy. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05293E, Review Article Chenyu Xiong, Yuefeng Meng, Yao Wang, Bingyue Ling, Mengyu Ma, Hao Yan, Feiyu Kang, Dong Zhou, Baohua Li This review thoroughly examines the impact of lean-solvent solid electrolyte (LSEs) on for safer and more durable lithium batteries. It also provides a comprehensive overview of existing LSEs. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05500D, Paper zhiwen lu, Wei Sun, Pingwei Cai, Linfeng Fan, Kai Chen, Jiyuan Gao, Hao Zhang, Junxiang Chen, Zhenhai Wen H2-producing zinc batteries hold promise as an electrochemical energy technology due to their unique ability to simultaneously generate electricity and hydrogen. However, their widespread adoption and commercialization have been hindered... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03839H, Paper Shengyu Tao, Mengtian Zhang, Zixi Zhao, Haoyang Li, Ruifei Ma, Yunhong Che, Xin Sun, Lin Su, Chongbo Sun, Xiangyu Chen, Heng Chang, Shiji Zhou, Zepeng Li, Hanyang Lin, Yaojun Liu, Wenjun Yu, Zhongling Xu, Han Hao, Scott Moura, Xuan Zhang, Yang Li, Xiaosong Hu, Guangmin Zhou The paper proposes a physics-informed model to predict battery lifetime trajectories by computing thermodynamic and kinetic parameters, saving costly data that has not been established for sustainable manufacturing, reuse, and recycling. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05288A, Paper Yanjun Wang, Yue Wang, Wenjing Duan, Xuang Bai, Pengyuan Liu, Chiwei Xu, Hongqin Wang, Jinjue Zeng, Qi Wang, Fanyu Zhou, Yuhang Meng, Lijun Yang, Cheng-Hui Li, Zheng Hu, Xiangfen Jiang, Liang Jiang, Jingxin Lei, Xue-Bin Wang The matter cycle and the renewable energy are fundamental to sustainable development. Despite the recognized urgency of plastic recycling, its implementation is still limited technologically. A dynamic crosslinker can enable... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04566A, Review Article Junwei Ding, Miao Du, Shiwen Wang, Linsen Zhang, Yuanzheng Yue, Morten M Smedskjaer Advanced rechargeable batteries are critical for enabling effective energy storage. A promising strategy to improve the electrochemical performance involves tailoring heterostructures (HSs) with heterointerfaces (HIs) in the active battery components.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03820G, Paper Xi Jin, Jun Li, Siyuan Zhu, Wenyan Tan, Jiahong Tang, Xueyuan Gong, Xingyu Liu, Yu Zhang, Chao Zhou, Zhaoheng Tang, Vincent O Nyamori, Bice Susan Martincigh, Matthew L Davies, Ming-Hua Li, Tongsheng Chen, Qi Chen, Jin-Song Hu, Qijie Liang, Weiqiang Chen, Yan Jiang The illumination side of perovskite solar cells is more vulnerable to external impact (such as hail, flying rocks, snow, hurricanes, etc.) than the rear side, leading to more likelihood of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04657A, Paper Shuaishuai Yan, Nan Yao, Hao Liu, Zheng Zhang, Yang Lu, Zhi Liu, Wen-hui Hou, Pan Zhou, Hang-Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Kai Liu, Qiang Zhang Ideal high-temperature lithium metal battery (LMB) electrolytes should have good thermal stability and compatibility with highly reactive cathodes/anodes. Yet, conventional liquid electrolytes usually show severe degradation and substantial safety risks... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05305B, Paper Yu Sun, Daxian Zuo, Chengrong Xu, Bo Peng, Jing-Chang Li, Jie Yang, Sheng Xu, Xinyi Sun, Haoshen Zhou, Shaohua Guo Hard carbon (HC), a commercially available anode for sodium-ion batteries(SIBs), suffers from the unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and massive irreversible sodium loss caused by oxygen-containing functional groups, resulting in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,13-18 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03483J, Opinion Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Xuan Gao, Haobo Dong, Chang Su, Yuhang Dai, Yiyang Liu, Ivan P. Parkin, Claire J. Carmalt, Guanjie He The payback period is a critical indicator when adopting energy storage systems. When developing optimization strategies for emerging energy storage technologies such as aqueous zinc-ion batteries, their economic feasibility should be considered. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,194-213 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03956D, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Xueyu Tian, Samuel D. Stranks, Jinsong Huang, Vasilis M. Fthenakis, Yang Yang, Fengqi You We propose a multi-scale analytics and modeling framework to fill the gap in integrating circular solar economy principles with ecosystem and climate commitments, enabling a holistic sustainability analysis of perovskite PVs. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03646H, Paper Hao Liu, Yang Lu, Andrew Xiang, Weili Zhang, Wenmin Kuang, Shuaishuai Yan, Qingbin Cao, Pan Zhou, Wen-hui Hou, Fengxiang Liu, Haiyu Zhou, Xuan Song, Zhenjun Luo, Baichong Chao, Yong Xiang, Kai Liu Wearable biofuel cells (BFCs) that rely on human sweat for energy harvesting and power generation require highly active enzymes to modify the electrode for biofuel catalysis and oxidation. However, the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03350G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yufan Zhang, Chi Ho Lee, Md Zahidul Islam , Joseph Kwon, Choongho Yu Aqueous Fe-ion batteries are largely unexplored due to their short cycle life despite the extremely low material cost. The working mechanisms are mostly undisclosed with only a few experimental studies.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04511D, Paper Yafang Zhang, Chang Yu, Xuedan Song, Xinyi Tan, Wenbin Li, Shuo Liu, Xiuqing Zhu, Song Cui, Yuanyang Xie, Jieshan Qiu A defect-mediated integration strategy is proposed for the in-plane confinement of the metal-containing complex over carbon support via a microwave-induced thermal microenvironment, which endows the catalyst with excellent electrocatalytic activity. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04698F, Paper Ying Mo, Wang Zhou, Kexuan Wang, Wenwen Yang, Zixu Liu, Shi Chen, Peng Gao, Jilei Liu The performance of potassium ion batteries (PIBs) using graphite anode is highly dependent on the composition of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) that include both organic and inorganic species. Currently, most... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04212C, Paper Hui Lin, Lingxing Zeng, Chuyuan Lin, Junxiu Wu, Huibing He, Chengxiu Huang, Wenbin Lai, Peixun Xiong, Fuyu Xiao, Qingrong Qian, Qinghua Chen, Jun Lu This work uses disodium naphthalenedisulfonate as an example to examine the structure–activity relationship of additives in aqueous wide-pH zinc–metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04849K, Paper Kai Du, Jiaqi Guo, Chenxi Song, Xin Liu, Mingjun Chen, Dachao Yuan, Runping Ye, Xingyuan San, Yaguang Li, Jinhua Ye A self-operating photothermal CO 2 methanation system in solar free environments is successfully developed by integrating a homemade photothermal TiC/Cu based device with a solid solution structure of NiO and CeO 2 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04051A, Paper Fei Yang, Yuyao Ruan, Shuo Li, Xingpei Wei, Shuwan Zai, Fei Gao, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu, Wangen Zhao The PCE of AFMS passivated CsPbI 3 PSCs reached 21.85%, which is the highest for this type of pure cesium lead triiodide solar cell. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03743J, Paper Jiping Sun, Bichao Wu, Zhixing Wang, Huajun Guo, Guochun Yan, Hui Duan, Guangchao Li, Ying Wang, Jiexi Wang CO 2 and H 2 O channels are incorporated into the catalyst layer network to benefit the micro-environment in MEA. Through rational catalyst layer design, CO 2 -to-C 2+ performance is substantially enhanced. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04560B, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Pekka Peljo, Claire Villevielle, Hubert Girault This article aims to present the redox aspects of lithium-ion batteries both from a thermodynamic and from a conductivity viewpoint. We first recall the basic definitions of the electrochemical potential... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04691A, Paper Zilong Li, Shunlian Ning, Yanshuo Jin, Nan Wang, Shuhui Sun, Hui Meng Selecting the appropriate charging reaction of zinc–air batteries to reduce cyclic electric energy loss by two orders of magnitude, achieving a round-trip efficiency of up to 99.9%. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03857F, Paper Zeheng Lv, Rong Tang, Chenxi Sun, Weiwei Meng, Jin Yang, Siyang Li, Qilong Wu, Minghao Zhang, Jinbao Zhao, Yang Yang The PBI hydrogel electrolyte can reduce the amount of free water, minimize proton co-intercalation into the V 2 O 5 host, and prevent the crosstalk of V 10 O 26 (OH) 2 4− between the anode and cathode to enable durable high-areal-capacity Zn–V 2 O 5 batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04741A, Paper Jie Yu, Lenan Zhang, Jintong Gao, Wenyu Han, Ruzhu Wang, Zhenyuan Xu Leveraging the self-amplifying salt creeping and efflorescence effects, the salt crystals self-assemble to form a hierarchical porous salt evaporator, enabling passive liquid supply and efficient evaporation. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04046E, Paper Ming Zhao, Tao Cheng, Tianyu Li, Shuo Wang, Yanbin Yin, Xianfeng Li Polybromide molecular polarity regulation ensures the optimal performance of zinc–bromine flow batteries at room temperature and −20 °C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04119D, Paper Jin Yang, Yuanhong Kang, Fanxiang Meng, Weiwei Meng, Guanhong Chen, Minghao Zhang, Zeheng Lv, Zhipeng Wen, Cheng Chao Li, Jinbao Zhao, Yang Yang Nb–NC single-atom electrocatalysts are rationally screened by theoretical calculations based on d–p orbital hybridization towards long-lasting aqueous Zn–I 2 batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04525D, Review Article Tian Wang, Shaocong Tang, Ya Xiao, Weiwei Xiang, Jae Su Yu This review summarizes the strategies for achieving efficient zinc plating/stripping based on interfacial chemistry manipulation in anode-free zinc metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04387A, Paper Xiaolin Ma, Ke Han, Hongxing Li, Lulu Song, Yuan Lin, Liangxu Lin, Yang Liu, Yi Zhao, Zhen Yang, Wei Huang Ultrathin dual-carbon-protected V 2 O 3 nanosheets are developed through stepwise MXene and MOF conversion to realize ultrafast and durable zinc-ion storage. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03757J, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Vox Kalai Wong, Johnny Ka Wai Ho, Wallace W. H. Wong, Shu Kong So Despite tinted transmission, semi-transparent solar cells using the band selective method exhibit higher performance at similar transparency levels, with PCE (28% vs. 22%) and LUE (23% vs. 19%), thus higher power output in empirical city irradiance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03753G, Paper Qinghan Zeng, Ruishan Zhang, Haibin Lu, Junhua Yang, Jionghui Rong, Jingqia Weng, Bingkai Zhang, Shiyun Xiong, Qi Zhang, Shaoming Huang Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) hold significant potential for energy storage but are hindered by challenges such as the shuttle effect and the slow conversion of soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs). In this... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04806G, Paper Jintu Qi, Yongchao Tang, Yue Wei, Guigui Liu, Jianping Yan, Zhenfeng Feng, Zixin Han, Minghui Ye, Wencheng Du, Qi Yang, Yufei Zhang, Zhipeng Wen, Xiaoqing Liu, Cheng Chao Li A halogen-bond chemistry-rectified Te 0 /Te 4+ redox with an almost maximized capacity contribution ( ca. 90.0%) is achieved for high-energy Zn batteries in localized concentrated ILEs, far surpassing those in aqueous systems ( ca. 33.0%). To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03192J, Paper Ying Wei, Han Wang, Xing Lin, Tianyu Wang, Yanming Cui, Yu Huang, Jiayi Yang, Te-Huan Liu, Yang Ren, Xiulin Fan, Henghui Xu, Yunhui Huang This work proposed an electrolyte with a moderate solvation structure, addressing the low ionic conductivity, slow de-solvation and unstable cathode–electrolyte interphase of high-voltage lithium metal batteries at low temperature. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04465G, Paper Xinxin Shu, Xueying Cao, Bowen He, Xunyi Chen, Lanling Zhao, Chengdong Yang, Jizhen Ma, Jintao Zhang The single atom electrocatalysts with the typical metal-nitrogen-carbon sites possess good oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity, yet challenges remain in fabricating rechargeable Zn-air batteries (ZABs) due to their poor oxygen... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04323E, Review Article Xin Wang, Yameng Fan, Jia-Yang Li, Xinghan Li, Weijie Li, Jiazhao Wang, Wei Kong Pang All solid-state sodium metal batteries (ASSSMBs) emerge as promising candidates to be a key technology in large-scale energy storage systems relative to mature Li/Na-ion batteries using flammable liquid electrolytes, owing... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04806G, Paper Jintu Qi, Yongchao Tang, Yue Wei, Guigui Liu, Jianping Yan, ZhenFeng Feng, Zixin Han, Minghui Ye, Wencheng Du, Qi Yang, Yufei Zhang, Zhipeng Wen, Xiaoqing Liu, Cheng Chao Li Hypervalent Te redox (Te0/Te4+) in ionic liquid electrolytes (ILEs) is promising for energetic Zn batteries. However, the energy contribution of Te0/Te4+ is only one-third of the total redox-amphoteric conversion, which... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04849K, Paper Kai Du, Jiaqi Guo, Chenxi Song, Xin Liu, Mingjun Chen, Dachao Yuan, Runping Ye, Xingyuan San, Yaguang Li, Jinhua Ye Photothermal CO2 methanation is crucial for carbon neutralization and long-term space exploration, but the reliance on sunlight irradiation limits its practical application. Herein, a fluorite two-dimensional solid solution of NiO... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03208J, Paper Wenbo Peng, Yong Zhang, Xianyong Zhou, Jiawen Wu, Deng Wang, Geping Qu, Jie Zeng, Yintai Xu, Bo Jiang, Peide Zhu, Yifan Du, Zhitong Li, Xia Lei, Zhixin Liu, Lei Yan, Xingzhu Wang, Baomin Xu The optimization of buried interface is crucial for achieving high efficiency in inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs), owing to their role in facilitating hole transport and passivating the buried interface... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04387A, Paper Xiaolin Ma, Ke Han, Hong-Xing Li, Lulu Song, Yuan Lin, Liangxu Lin, Yang Liu, Yi Zhao, Zhen Yang, Wei Huang Vanadium oxides with high theoretical capacity are attractive cathodes for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs), while their practical usage is still obstructed by the vanadium dissolution, structure deterioration, and sluggish reaction... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04212C, Paper Hui Lin, Lingxing Zeng, Chuyuan Lin, Junxiu Wu, Huibing He, Chengxiu Huang, Wenbin Lai, Peixun Xiong, Fuyu Xiao, Qingrong Qian, Qinghua Chen, Jun Lu The structure design principles of organic additives for high-performance anode over wide-pH electrolytes are elusive, which are critical barriers to the practical application of aqueous zinc-metal batteries (AZMBs). Herein, this... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04011B, Paper Xuanfeng Chen, Chunhao Qin, Fulu Chu, Fangkun Li, Jun Liu, Feixiang Wu Gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) synergizing the benefits of solid and liquid electrolytes are promising electrolyte candidates for future Li metal batteries (LMBs). However, the poor performance of current GPEs in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04466E, Paper Yuan Fang, Chunhong Qi, Weichao Bao, Fangfang Xu, Wei Sun, Bin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang, Pengpeng Qiu, Wei Luo The MXene–VO 2− x cathode with asymmetric Ti–O–V orbital hybridization at the heterointerface for zinc-ion batteries is designed to stabilize the oxygen vacancies through charge transfer, thus efficiently boosting the electrochemical performance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03893B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Sang Won Lee, Tae Heon Nam, Seok Hee Lee, Tatsumi Ishihara, John T. S. Irvine, Tae Ho Shin We propose an ultrasonic spraying strategy for the one-step fabrication of uniform nano-electrodes with a nano-convex structure on an all-ceramic fuel electrode, enhancing both activity and durability. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03944K, Paper Insang You, Baltej Singh, Mengyang Cui, Gillian Goward, Lanting Qian, Zachary Arthur, Graham King, Linda Nazar Solid-state lithium batteries are on the threshold of commercialization as an alternative to liquid electrolyte batteries. Glassy or amorphous solid electrolytes could bring crucial benefits, but their lack of periodicity... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03857F, Paper Zeheng Lv, Rong Tang, Chenxi Sun, weiwei meng, Jin Yang, Siyang Li, Qilong Wu, Minghao Zhang, Jinbao Zhao, Yang Yang Aqueous Zn-V2O5 batteries, renowned for their intrinsic safety and high energy density, hold significant promises for large-scale energy storage. Despite achieving impressive fast-charging performance, maintaining long-term cycling performance in practical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03419H, Paper Ciyu Ge, Qi Xu, Dayu Liu, Wenjiang Ye, Yongxin Zhu, Peiyan Zhang, Jiakuan Yang, Guang-xing Liang, Ling Xu, Ying Zhou, Haisheng Song, Chao Chen, Jiang Tang Vacuum-assisted technology, favored for its low cost, environmental friendliness, and scalability, is widely used in perovskite solar cells and is a preferred choice for commercialized production. However, strong solvent extraction... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03529A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Xiao Kun Lu, Wenxin Zhang, Brianna N. Ruggiero, Linsey C. Seitz, Jiaqi Li Our electrochemical production uses carbon-free rocks, water electrolysis, and CO 2 capture/circulation for carbon-neutral/negative cement and green H 2 , turning cement from the second-largest industrial CO 2 emitter to a gigaton-scale CCUS enabler. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04072D, Paper Xianghui Zeng, Ting Xu, Hansheng Chen, Baoshen Deng, Qing Yan, Xuanlin Wen, Zijian Li, Haoxuan Zeng, Chuanlin Gao, Yaodong Xiao, Jiwei Liao, Hui Liu, Bin He, Peigang Han, Guangye Zhang, Shunpu Li, Yiwang Chen, Chen Xie A donor-based nanoparticle (NPs)-incorporated hole-transport layer was synthesized for fine-tuning the energy level of anodes in organic solar cells. The conventional and inverted devices achieved record efficiencies of 19.9% and 17.2%, respectively. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02970D, Paper Zheng Wan, Zhenying Chen, Hao Chen, Yizhi Jiang, Jinhuan Zhang, Yidong Wang, Jindong Wang, Hao Sun, zhongjie zhu, Jinhui Zhu, Linyi Yang, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, Xing Xie, Yue Zhang, Xiao-Dong Zhuang, Xiao He, Jinrong Yang The long-sought prediction pipelines for solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) with room-temperature superionic conductivity marks a significant milestone on the path towards realizing the commercialization of all-solid-state lithium batteries. In recent years,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03156C, Review Article Laiquan Li, Linyuan Xu, Hanyun Wang, Haohong Wei, Cheng Tang, Guisheng Li, Yuhai Dou, Hua Kun Liu, Shi Xue Dou As a self-sustaining cycle, the electrocatalytic nitrogen cycle represents an avenue for rectifying the nitrogen imbalance and for synthesizing value-added chemicals, thereby contributing to a sustainable and carbon-neutral society. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04201H, Paper Yitian Wu, Chaoliang Ma, Kangxin Zhu, Lizheng Jin, Lvfu Song, Lanze Li, Yingzhuo Lu, Yu Zheng, Yaoxin Zhang, Xin Zheng, Sai Wu, Yajun Pang, Zhehong Shen, Swee Ching Tan, Hao Chen The simultaneous extraction of freshwater, salt, and energy from seawater using solar interfacial evaporation methods still faces significant challenges. Here, a novel asymmetric evaporation model is proposed. This asymmetric evaporation... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article 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 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03406F, Paper Seungbok Lee, Sungjun Oh, Seungseok Han, Dongchan Lee, Jihyung Lee, Yonghwi Kim, Hoe-Yeon Jeong, Jin-Woo Lee, Min-Ho Lee, Wu Bin Ying, Seonju Jeong, Seungjae Lee, Junho Kim, Yun Hoo Kim, Bumjoon J. Kim, Eun-chae Jeon, Taek-Soo Kim, Shinuk Cho, Jung-Yong Lee Highly efficient and stretchable organic solar cells were developed with a novel liquid metal top electrode. Metallic interlayers enabled its fabrication via thermal evaporation, achieving 14.6% PCE and 70% PCE retention under 63% strain. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04248D, Paper Yang Ding, Erming Feng, Siyuan Lu, Jianhui Chang, Caoyu Long, S.C. Tong, Hengyue Li, Junliang Yang Residual stresses generated within perovskite films during the high-temperature annealing and cooling process are the key contributors to reduce device performance and lifespan deterioration. Herein, a strategy of surface micro-etching... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03005B, Paper Hong-Bo Zhang, Yu Meng, Lingzhe Fang, Fei Yang, Shangqian Zhu, Tao Li, Xiaohua Yu, Ju Rong, Weiwei Chen, Dong Su, Yi Mei, Peng-Xiang Hou, Chang Liu, Minhua Shao, Jin-Cheng Li Great efforts have been devoted to the development of bifunctional electrocatalysts to accelerate the sluggish kinetics of cathodic oxygen reduction/evolution reactions (ORR/OER) in zinc–air batteries (ZABs). Here we report a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01978D, Paper Xinpeng Han, Jinpeng Han, Kang Ma, Jiaqi Wen, Lianpeng Li, Daliang Han, Jie Sun Manipulating ion solvation sheath behaviour is of great significance for alleviating dendritic growth, hydrogen production, and metal corrosion, thus achieving long-term stability of zinc ion batteries. Herein, we rationally design... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02394C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Daniel Joseph Laky, Nicole P. Cortes, John C. Eslick, Alexander Noring, Naresh Susarla, Chinedu Okoli, Miguel Zamarripa-Perez, Douglas A. Allan, John H. Brewer, Arun Iyengar, Maojian Wang, Anthony P. Burgard, David C. Miller, Alexander William Dowling Decarbonization efforts across North America, Europe, and beyond rely on variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, as well as alternative fuels, such as hydrogen, to support the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03673E, Paper Jiaming Zhu, Cong Kang, Xiangjun Xiao, Ya Mao, Ying Luo, Yuheng Wang, Quansheng Zhang, Yulin Ma, Chunyu Du, Shuaifeng Lou, Fanpeng Kong, Jingying Xie, Geping Yin Regulating the surface structure of collector to synergistically reduce the nucleation and lateral growth barrier of Li + electrodeposition is key to long-cycle anode-free Li-metal batteries (AFLMB), but its adjusting mechanism... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02612H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Priya Viji, Constantin Tormann, Clemens Göhler, Martijn Kemerink Slow thermalization of photogenerated charge carriers in organic solar cells leads to an electronic temperature that is much larger than that of the lattice and to significantly enhanced open-circuit voltages. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01618A, Paper Chongwei Gao, Ming Chen, Jiantao Li, Xunan Wang, Guobin Zhang, Xi Tan, Shuhua Zhang, Guang Feng, Dengyun Zhai, Feiyu Kang Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are promising cathode materials for monovalent- and multivalent-ion batteries due to their large framework structures. Nevertheless, the influence of lattice vacancies on electrochemical performance has not... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03097D, Review Article Xinyuan Shan, Zhaowei Song, Hang Ding, Lengwan Li, Yuhang Tian, Alexei P Sokolov, Ming Tian, kang Xu, Pengfei Cao The development of solid polymer electrolytes for lithium−metal (Li0) batteries (LMBs) with high energy density and high safety has been a long-standing goal that attracted intensive efforts for over four... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03148B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Zi an Xu, Jian Zhu, Jingze Shao, Yu Xia, Peng-Fei Liu, Guangshe Li, Rouxi Chen, Shaoqing Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Shi Chen, Fu Qiang Huang, Hsing-Lin Wang Durable and high-efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are central to rechargeable Zn-air batteries (ZABs). The current best-performing ORR electrocatalysts are FeN4-based powder materials among non-noble metals, but they... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03134B, Paper Yiteng Ma, Yong Qiu, Ke Yang, Shun Lv, Yuhang Li, Xufei An, Guanyou Xiao, Zhuo Han, Yuetao Ma, Likun Chen, Danfeng Zhang, Wei Lv, Yun Tian, Tingzheng Hou, Ming Liu, Zhen Zhou, Feiyu Kang, Yan-Bing He The competitive Li + coordination environment with a three-dimensional transport network is designed in a composite solid-state electrolyte to realize a high ionic conductivity of 1.03 × 10 −3 S cm −1 and ultralong-cycling solid-state batteries at 5C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03103B, Paper Lipeng Jiang, Dengqian Chen, Zhengkai Hao, Dongxue Cao, Runqiao Liu, Jingyu Cheng, Limei Chen, Xin Liu, Boyin Jia, Dongdong Liu This study proposed a “dual ship bottling” strategy to synthesize Cu x Ag 50− x /UiO66-NH 2 , achieving over 90% selectivity for reduced carbon products. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02817A, Paper Xia Li, Guoliang Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, Ruonan Yang, Han Yu, Xiuqi Zhang, Gang Lian, Hua Hou, Zhanhu Guo, Chuanxin Hou, Xiaoyang Yang, Feng Dang High entropy design guidance enables a modulated broad d-band of cathode catalyst with efficient d–p coupling for all reactants, realizing multiphasic catalytic capability of Li 2 O 2 and Li 2 CO 3 and ultralong cycle life in Li–air and Li–CO 2 batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02192D, Paper Wenjing Deng, Renfei Feng, Xiaolei Wang Challenges lie in the sluggish redox kinetics and uncontrolled side reactions of traditional aqueous zinc-iodine batteries, making them inferior to other battery congeners. Herein, we introduce superhalide solvation structure and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03280B, Paper Wen-hui Hou, Yu Ou, T.Y Zeng, Qingqing Feng, Qingbin Cao, Pan Zhou, Yingchun Xia, Xuan Song, Weili Zhang, Yang Lu, Shuaishuai Yan, Hangyu Zhou, Haiyu Zhou, Hao Liu, Fengxiang Liu, Kai Liu Ultrahigh-voltage lithium metal batteries based on cobalt-free LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (LNMO) cathode (5 V-class, vs. Li+/Li) and lithium metal anode (-3.04 V vs. the standard hydrogen electrode) have attracted extensive attention in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03199G, Paper An-Min Cao, Sijie Guo, Tingting Wu, Siqi Lu, Suting Weng, Muyao Qi, Bing Li, Yong-Gang Sun, Sidong Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Hong-Shen Zhang Garnet-type solid-state electrolytes (SSEs), typically Li6.5La3Zr1.5Ta0.5O12 (LLZT), hold great promises for next-generation lithium metal batteries (LMBs). However, LLZT with a high content of reactive Li+ is air sensitive, which forms... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03209H, Minireview Diyu Xu, Dezhou Zheng, Fuxin Wang, Xuefeng Shang, Yi Wang, Xihong Lu Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs) are considered as a viable candidate for grid-scale energy storage with admirable capacity, high safety and low cost, but are severely hampered by the undesirable dendrite growth... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03430A, Communication Juxuan Xie, Ju Zhao, Zhisheng Zhou, Kai Zhang, Jiangkai Yu, Chang Zhu, Fei Huang We present a method for fabricating high-performance ST-OSC modules incorporating the high mobility small molecule donor BTR-Cl into the active layer at low donor content, demonstrating the potential of ST-OSC modules in the field of energy conservation and environmental protection. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03508A, Paper Baiyang Yu, Lu Cheng, Jiaju Wu, Bing Yang, Hong Li, Jing Xu, Ying Zhang, Chengsi Pan, Xiaoming Cao, Yongfa Zhu, Yang Lou Direct oxidation of methane (DOM) using molecular oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2) is currently considered to be triggered by in-situ produced H2O2 or free hydroxyl radicals (•OH). However, the role... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02718C, Paper Jun Fang, Dongxu Lin, Guanshui Xie, Sibo Li, Huan Li, Xin Wang, Daozeng Wang, Nuanshan Huang, Haichen Peng, Lin Gan, Yanzhuo Zhu, Sisi He, Longbin Qiu An insight of anion-exchange strategy gained by in situ characterization in sequential thermal evaporation-solution process for high quality perovskite films. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01437E, Communication Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Nikhil Rampal, Stephen Weitzner, Seongkoo Cho, Christine Orme, Marcus A. Worsley, Liwen Wan Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become a core portable energy storage technology due to their high energy density, longevity, and affordability. Nevertheless, their use in low-temperature environments is challenging due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02671C, Paper Liqun Wang, Jingting Jin, Wenzhi Li, Cunshuo Li, Leyu Zhu, Zheng Zhou, Lulu Zhang, Xia Zhang, Liang Yuan Direct conversion of methane into high value-added products is of great practical significance. The synergistic effect in catalysts with dual-active components show potential to increase the methanol yield and selectivity.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02026J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Qiang Huang, Chunlin Hao, Guibao Guo, Hongwei Ji, Shengli An, Wanhong Ma, Jincai Zhao Unavoidable relaxed heat from excited TiO 2 -based photocatalytic systems inverts the long-chain fatty acids conformation, which increases the strain of C–COOH to alter the reaction path, leading to a high biofuel output concentration under sunlight. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03067B, Paper Fusheng Luo, Song Yang, Qing Wu, Yue Li, Jinlong Zhang, Yanhui Zhang, Jun Huang, Haibo Xie, Yiwang Chen Hydrogel electrolytes have been extensively developed for flexible zinc-ion batteries (FZIBs) owing to their rich ion transfer channels, mechanical stability and intrinsic safety. However, the single ion regulation in traditional... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02722A, Paper Jiayi Tang, Ke Guo, Daqin Guan, Yong Hao, Zongping Shao A semi-vapor electrolysis process is proposed to enable cost-effective co-production of hydrogen and pure water with cheaper electrode materials, eliminating the need for water purification and improving energy efficiency. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03402C, Paper Xu Mengyao, Qizhen Zhu, Yanze Li, Yuan Gao, Ning Sun, Bin Xu To address the challenges in Li-S batteries, i.e. the shuttle effect and lithium dendrite formation, a high-entropy MXene (HE-MXene) of TiVNbMoC3 with four size-compatible transition metal elements uniformly dispersed in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02784A, Paper Wenchao Shi, Zhenjun Song, Wenwei Zhang, Sitian Lian, Fuzhi Huang, Qinyou An, Qi Li An innovative approach of iodide ion-mediated regulation for the early-stage Zn nucleation and growth process is demonstrated to achieve highly reversible and high-rate anode-free aqueous Zn metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02176B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Ceren Zor, Kieran D. Jones, Gregory J. Rees, Sixie Yang, Alexander Pateman, Xiangwen Gao, Lee R. Johnson, Peter G. Bruce The lithium–oxygen field has focused on singlet oxygen’s role in cell degradation. This study shows no significant reaction between singlet oxygen and the electrolyte or carbon cathode, confirming it is not the major degradation source. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03173C, Paper Lei Wang, shihao yuan, Feng Qian, Ting Zhang, Hualin Zheng, Xiaobo Li, Tianyu Lan, Qien Xu, Peng Zhang, Shibin Li The Poly[bis(4-phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)amine (PTAA) is commonly used as a co-hole transport layer in inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs). It can effectively improve the hole transport capability of NiOx and obstruct interfacial... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02151G, Paper Jiaying Liao, Caoyang Shao, Jingchen Han, Zeyu Yuan, Qiao Hu, Yichen Du, Shaohua Guo, Xiaosi Zhou, Haoshen Zhou With the development of potassium-ion batteries, perovskite fluorides with three-dimensional framework structures and high theoretical capacities are attracting increasing attention. However, their intrinsically low electronic conductivities and high K+ diffusion... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01944J, Paper Changduk Yang, Thi Le Huyen Mai, Zhe Sun, Seoyoung Kim, Seonghun Jeong, Seunglok Lee, Jeewon Park Major challenges associated with bringing organic solar cells (OSCs) to industrial market are to further improve power conversion efficiency (PCE), device stability, and green-solvent processability within open-air (OA) environment. High-performance... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D3EE03922F, Review Article Baichun Wang, Xinyu Huang, Zhe Liu, Jintai Zhang, Chuyun Wei, Bohan Cai, Pengchao Xie, Aijiao Zhou The escalating water and energy crises have led to attempts at combining purifying water and blue energy harvesting using solar interfacial evaporation systems (SIESs) based on hybrid systems. The thermally-localized... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02979H, Paper Xinlu Zhang, Xuexiu Bai, Chuanliang Wei, Zhengran Wang, Baojuan Xi, Shenglin Xiong, Jinkui Feng Comprehending electronic configurations of single-atom catalyst (SACs) by fine-tuning coordination microenvironment reinforcing electrocatalytic activity for rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries is of noteworthy significance toward boosting sulfur evolution kinetics, lowering reaction barriers... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02964J, Paper Xin Chen, Qi Wang, Hui Wei, Jiewei Yang, Yuqi Yao, Weijian Tang, Wuke Qiu, Xiaopeng Xu, Lin Song, Yihui Wu, Qiang Peng Achieving optimal interfacial contact and band alignment at the buried interface of perovskite are crucial for minimizing the energy loss in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, a series of fluorine-substituted... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01015A, Paper Shengnan Wang, Tianyu Li, Chenguang Yuan, Jiaxiong Zhu, Pei Li, Shaoce Zhang, Zhiquan Wei, Yiqiao Wang, Xianfeng Li, Chunyi Zhi Zinc-based flow batteries (ZFBs) are regarded as promising candidates for large-scale energy storage systems. However, the formation of dead zinc and dendrites, especially at high areal capacities and current densities,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02371D, Review Article Minhao Yang, Yanlong Zhao, Huarui Yan, Zepeng Wang, Chao Xu, Chong Zhang, Emiliano Bilotti, Jianying Li, Zhi-Min Dang The capacitive energy storage of polymer dielectrics degrades rapidly at elevated temperatures and electric fields owing to the exponential growth of conduction loss. The formation of conduction loss is mainly... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02208D, Paper JinPing Zhang, Jie Zhu, Ruiqi Zhao, Jie Liu, Xingchen Song, Nuo Xu, Yansong Liu, Hongtao Zhang, Xiangjian Wan, Yanfeng Ma, Chenxi Li, Yongsheng Chen Single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes, characterized by effective Li+ transport and dendrite mitigation, are emerging as promising candidates for the highly demanded lithium metal batteries. However, despite the promise, their current... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02163K, Paper Jiacong Lu, Xinyue Zhong, Xiaomin Lin, Jiuqing Gui, Mingtao Zheng, YingLiang Liu, Yeru Liang Aqueous zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors (ZHSCs) represent a promising avenue for safe and efficient energy storage. However, their practical application has been limited by the low energy densities resulting from the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01693A, Review Article Dong Liu, Yaohai Cai, Xin Wang, Yuling Zhuo, xulei sui, Hui Pan, Zhenbo Wang Seawater electrolysis emerges as a viable solution for sustainable hydrogen production, leveraging areas abundant in renewable energy but scarce in freshwater. However, the complex composition of seawater presents substantial challenges,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02578D, Paper Ying-Ying Wang, Zhong-Yuan Wang, Yu-Juan Xu, Weihua Chen, Guosheng Shao, Bao-Hua Hou Carbon cloth (CC) is a promising flexible substrate to construct flexible electrodes. However, commercial CC suffers from high price, large dead weight/volume and poor electrochemical activity, severely affecting the energy/power... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02557A, Paper Zhihang Song, Yi Zhao, Huirong Wang, Anbin Zhou, Xiaoyu Jin, Yongxin Huang, Li Li, Feng Wu, Renjie Chen Composite materials based on vanadium oxides have been widely used in aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). However, due to the low energy storage activity of ligand materials, composite electrodes are faced... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02004A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Siddhartha Subramanian, Jesse Kok, Pratik Gholkar, Asvin Sajeev Kumar, Hugo-Pieter Iglesias van Montfort, Ruud Kortlever, Atsushi Urakawa, Bernard Dam, Thomas Burdyny Carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis on copper (Cu) catalysts has attracted interest for its direct production of C2+ feedstocks. Using the knowledge that CO2 reduction on copper is primarily a tandem... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02853H, Paper Bing-Qing Xiong, Xiaoye Liu, Qingshun Nian, Zihong Wang, Yuhong Zhu, Xuan Luo, Jinyu Jiang, Digen Ruan, Jun Ma, Junhao Jiang, Yifeng Cheng, Changhao Li, Xiaodi Ren All-solid-state-lithium-batteries (ASSLBs) using crystalline solid electrolytes (e.g., garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12, LLZO) are promising electrochemical energy storage systems. However, Li penetration within the solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) due to large electric field gradient... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01647E, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Lirong Dong, Shudi Qiu, Jose Garcia Cerrillo, Michael Wagner, Olga Kasian, Sarmad Feroze, Dongju Jang, Chaohui Li, Vincent Marc Le Corre, Kaicheng Zhang, Heiko Peisert, Felix Kosasih, Charline Arrive, Tian Du, Fu Yang, Christoph J Brabec, Hans Joachim Egelhaaf, Caterina Ducati Fully printed flexible perovskite solar cells (f-PSCs) show great potential for the commercialization of perovskite photovoltaics owing to their compatibility with high-throughput roll-to-roll (R2R) production. However, the challenge remains in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01381F, Paper Xuying Wang, Zhaoyi Wang, Zhiwei Xue, Yiyi Fan, Jing Yang, Qingxiao Zhang, Naitao Yang, Xiuxia Meng, Yun Jin, Shaomin Liu A robust MoS 2 -based membrane with a subnano-scale confinement for Na + transport has achieved an osmotic power density of 73 W m −2 under a 50-fold concentration gradient and exceptional stability of 40 days with the tested membrane area of 0.78 mm 2 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02119C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Runxia Cai, Kunran Yang, Xijun Wang, Mahe Rukh, Azin Saberi Bosari, Eric Giavedoni, Alexandra Pierce, Leo Brody, Wentao Tang, Phillip R Westmoreland, Fanxing Li Sorption-enhanced reforming and gasification (SERG) offers a promising approach to intensify hydrogen production from carbonaceous feedstocks. However, conventional sorbents require substantial temperature increases for the endothermic CO2 release step and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02455A, Paper Qiyan Zhang, Dongmou Li, Yueqi Zhong, Yuna Hu, Shuangwu Huang, Shuxiang Dong, Qiming Zhang Electrostatic capacitors based on polymer dielectrics are essential components in advanced electronic and electrical power systems. An urgent challenge, however, is how to improve their capacitive performance at high temperatures... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01793E, Paper Xingxing Wang, Ziyu Song, Hao Wu, Jiayi Chen, Wenfang Feng, Michel Armand, Zhi-Bin Zhou, Heng Zhang Among existing electrochemical energy storage technologies, lithium carbon fluoride (Li°||CFx) batteries have captured enormous attention owing to their surprisingly high energy density and low self-discharge rate. The features of nonaqueous... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01325E, Review Article Shiya You, Jiewen Xiao, Shuyu Liang, Wenfu Xie, Tianyu Zhang, Min Li, Ziyi Zhong, Qiang Wang, Hong He Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2RR) is a promising technology that uses renewable energy sources to convert excess atmospheric CO2 into high-value multi-carbon (C2+) products. In the CO2RR mechanism, adsorbed *CO... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02332C, Review Article Caidi Jin, Mingxia Han, Yuheng Wu, Shurong Wang Selective conversion of renewable biomass to value-added chemicals/fuels via environment-friendly photoelectrochemical (PEC) technology has enormous development potential for solving the increasingly serious problems on energy crisis and environmental pollution. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01436G, Paper Minkwan Kim, Jiwoo An, Seung-Jae Shin, Insu Hwang, Jimin Lee, Youngbin Park, Jinyoung Kim, Eunseok Park, Jisub Kim, Gyuleen Park, Sujin Kim, Ali Coskun, Jang Wook Choi Localized high-concentration electrolytes (LHCEs) have been proposed for lithium metal batteries (LMBs) to control the solvation structure of the lithium ion and consequently the solid-electrolyte-interphase (SEI) composition. Although this approach... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00282B, Paper Xin Jin, Mengfan Pei, Dongming Liu, Zihui Song, Wanyuan Jiang, Runyue Mao, Borui Li, Xigao Jian, Fangyuan Hu The sluggish kinetics limits the practical application of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), the innovative strategy and design of materials with fast reaction kinetics are important for SIBs. To solve the issues,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01157K, Paper Chenkai Jin, Chengqi Feng, Yuhua Chen, Ting Zhang, Huiwen He, Haining Na, Jin Zhu Light pollution caused by the reflected light of buildings poses a growing threat to the global environment and human health. Currently, common luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), as an important transparent... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02075H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Jin Li, Junjie Chen, Xiaosa Xu, Jing Sun, Baoling Huang, Tianshou Zhao LAGP/Li interface, Lithium metal batteries, In-situ visualizing, Structure evolution, Multilayer structure electrolyte The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE90055C, Editorial To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01543F, Paper Zhanpeng Zhou, Hao Zeng, Chengyang Feng, Ling Li, Rongdi Tang, Wenbo Li, Ying Huang, Yaocheng Deng The strategic design and meticulous regulation of photocatalysts with customized atomic structures are imperative in the construction of efficient photocatalytic systems that can be finely tuned at both the atomic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01727G, Paper Dean Mackenzie Miller, Matthew Junjie Liu, Kristen Nicole Abels, Kindle Shea Williams, Anna Kogler, William Tarpeh Anthropogenic ammonia production has sustained exponential population growth but exacerbated wastewater nitrate pollution. Abundant nitrate could be refined to purified nitrogenous chemicals with the electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR). However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00291A, Paper Shenzheng Gao, Yiming Zhang, Seonghun Jeong, Xinjie Zhou, Hao Xu, Shanlei Xu, Daqing Chen, Wenzhu Liu, Changduk Yang, Sheng Meng, Weiguo Zhu, Xin Song Go out for environmental considerations, non-halogenated solvent casting is of critical importance for the commercialization of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the severe traps and energetic disorder induced by the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00749B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Ibtisam Alali, Amina Umar Shehu, Robert Mokaya The main hurdle that is holding back the use of natural gas as a fuel for vehicles and in other forms of transportation is the lack of materials that can... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01301H, Review Article Haoming Yu, Hsiwen Wu, Yuen-Leong Chow, Jun Wang, Jie Zhang Producing deeply reduced (net transferred electrons per carbon atom greater than two, > 2e-) products from electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR) is an attractive and sustainable approach for CO2 utilization.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01426J, Paper Xia Shuang, ZhiFeng Lin, Bohao Peng, Xuelong Yuan, Jingzhen Du, Xinhai Yuan, Lili Liu, Lijun Fu, Rudolf Holze, Yuping Wu Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) can alleviate the ‘range anxiety’ and have broad prospects due to their high energy densities. However, poor safety and cycling performances of the LMBs due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00747F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Fatemeh Rostami, Piera Patrizio, Loreano Jimenez Esteller, Carlos Pozo Fernandez, Niall MacDowell Although pivotal in the climate change discourse, Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) often face criticism for their overly optimistic projections. In this contribution, we critically examine IAM limitations in the context... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00520A, Paper Qingmei Xu, Zhixin Liu, Yucheng Jin, Xiya Yang, Ting-Ting Sun, Tianyu Zheng, Ning Li, Yuhui Wang, Tongxuan Li, Kang Wang, Jianzhuang Jiang As a special class of crystalline porous polymers, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) containing electrochemical redox-active centers are attractive electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. However, designing and synthesizing COF-based electrodes materials... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01878H, Paper Yaodong Yu, Yuyao Sun, Jiani Han, Yujia Guan, Hongdong Li, Lei Wang, Jianping Lai The electrocatalytic synthesis of urea from nitrate ions as wastewater pollutants with CO2 is a sustainable pathway. However, efficient electrosynthesis of urea across broad nitrate concentrations range has not been... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01359J, Paper Zhijin Ju, Xinyong Tao, Yao Wang, Qing Yang, Tiefeng Liu, Jianwei Nai, Wenkui Zhang, Si Chen, Yujing Liu, He Tian, Jun Lu A unique Li + -crosslinked ionic conductive elastomer (ICE) was developed and the resultant ICE-SEI demonstrates remarkable elasticity, self-healing capability, and high ionic conductivity, thus realizing long-life Li metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01241K, Review Article Gilseob Kim, Seonyong Cho, Lulu Lyu, Mihui Park, Sanghyun Park, Yong-Mook Kang Alloying materials, recognized as promising candidates for graphite anodes, are extensively explored for their high energy density. However, the chronic challenges originating from volumetric expansion and the resultant stress leading... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00568F, Paper Yu Lin, Jiawei Tang, Haocong Yan, Jiaru Lin, Wenran Wang, Shengsen Zhang, Huashang Rao, Zhenxiao Pan, Xinhua Zhong The hole transport layer (HTL)-free carbon electrode-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) possess promising commercial application potential due to the fascinating advantages of low cost and high stability. However, the large... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01376J, Paper Yong Xu, Ping Wang, Man Zhang, Weili Dai, Yuxuan Xu, Jian-Ping Zou, Xubiao Luo One of the biggest obstacles to converting greenhouse gas CO2 into high value-added multi-carbon compounds driven by light is manipulating the C−C coupling reaction. Herein, we propose using symbiotic effect... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01428F, Paper Kunik Jang, Hee Jo Song, Jung Been Park, Sang Won Jung, Dong-Wan Kim Li metal is considered an ideal anode material for high-energy-density rechargeable Li metal batteries (LMBs). Nevertheless, sluggish Li+ transport kinetics and uncontrolled Li dendrite growth result in poor cycling performance,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01226G, Paper Jiachuan Chen, Chenglong Qiu, Lei Zhang, Baobin Wang, Penghua Zhao, Yu Zhao, Huanlei Wang, Guihua Yang, Aoran Sun, Jiaming Fan, Qixi Xv, Orlando J. Rojas Flexible Zn–air batteries are typically constrained by sluggish oxygen electrocatalysis and electrochemical interface instability, and their operational range across wide temperatures are resultant restricted. Accordingly, we propose the wide temperature... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01497A, Paper Dechao Meng, Zhichen Xue, Guokang Chen, Dengke Zhou, Yushi He, Zi-Feng Ma, Yijin Liu, Linsen Li Fast-charging lithium-ion batteries provide a promising solution to addressing the range anxiety of electric vehicles (EVs) but they face challenges in durability and safety. Kinetically-driven lithium-plating on the anode is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01298D, Paper Weili Zhang, yang lu, Qingbin Cao, Hao Liu, Qingqing Feng, pan zhou, Yingchun xia, Wenhui Hou, Shuaishuai yan, Kai Liu Electrolyte for low temperature high energy lithium metal battery is expected to possess both fast Li+ transfer in the bulk (low bulk resistance) and fast Li+ de-solvation process at the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01071J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Zhenni Wu, Mykhailo Sytnyk, Jiyun Zhang, Gülüsüm Babayeva, Christian Kupfer, Jin Hu, Simon Arnold, Jens Hauch, Christoph J Brabec, Ian Marius Peters Closed-loop recycling is crucial in the rapidly expanding era of photovoltaic deployment. Yet, the recycling of commercial silicon photovoltaic modules presents challenges due to laborious component separation. In contrast, layers... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01208A, Paper Jie Sun, Jin Zhang, Siyang Wang, Peiyan Sun, Jiahang Chen, Yuping Du, Shenghan Wang, Saadoune Ismael, Yizhan Wang, Yingjin Wei The self-discharge of aqueous zinc batteries during idle periods remains elusive, warranting adequate voltage and sufficient capacity is not trivial, due to the components of the battery system and the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01460J, Analysis Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Rishi Kaashyap Balaji, Fengqi You In the pursuit of achieving net-zero emissions to combat climate change, green hydrogen is expected to be an important decarbonization vector for hard-to-abate sectors. Scaling up green hydrogen production necessitates... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00309H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Edward J. Graham, Moataz Sheha, Dharik S. Mallapragada, Howard J. Herzog, Emre Gençer, Phillip Cross, James Custer, Adam Goff, Ian Cormier Deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipped fossil fuel power plants on the supply-side and direct air capture (DAC) technologies on the demand side can address the dual challenge... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00331D, Paper Yin Hu, Mingchen Yang, Qingyu Dong, Xiuyang Zou, Jiangtao Yu, Siyu Guo, Feng Yan The recycling of spent lithium-ion battery cathodes (LIBs) is crucial to ensuring the sustainable development of natural resources and environmental protection. The current pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical recycling strategies involve high... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00590B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Erik Lübke, Lukas Helfen, Phil Cook, Marta Mirolo, Valentin Vinci, Ove Korjus, Bernd Fuchsbichler, Stefan Koller, Roland Brunner, Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard Correlative neutron and X-ray imaging unravels the causes of localized defects in Li-ion batteries containing a silicon-graphite based anode. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00572D, Paper Jing An, Shuang Ge, Guofeng Wang, Honggang Fu This work is the first to introduce photocontrolled catalysts into CO 2 RR, and further introduce RE single atom into the catalysts, aiming to optimize the photocatalytic performance by utilizing the synergistic effect of RE single atom and composites. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00822G, Review Article Shuhao Zou, Yan Yang, Jiarui Wang, Xuanyi Zhou, Xuanhong Wan, Min Zhu, Jun Liu The practical application of commercialized lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) currently faces challenges due to using liquid electrolytes (LEs), including limited energy density and insufficient safety performance. The combined application of solid-state... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D3EE04251K, Review Article Jin-Tao Ren, Lei Chen, Hao-Yu Wang, Yi Feng, Zhong-Yong Yuan The burgeoning field of anion-exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) presents a promising avenue to circumvent the reliance on scarce and costly Pt-based catalysts, offering a zero-carbon emission alternative. Despite the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00313F, Review Article Wenhao Ma, Sunyufei Wang, Xianwen Wu, Wenwen Liu, Fan Yang, Shude Liu, Seong Chan Jun, Lei Dai, Zhangxing He, Qiaobao Zhang Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are recognized as a promising power supply for energy storage devices due to their high theoretical capacity, inherent safety, suitable redox potential, and environmental friendliness. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00448E, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Chulwan Lim, Sangkuk Kim, Ji Hwan Song, Man Ho Han, Young-Jin Ko, Kwan-Young Lee, Jae-Young Choi, Woong Hee Lee, Hyung-Suk Oh Alkaline local pH during vigorous electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) can improve the activity and selectivity of CO 2 RR. However, it also leads an alkalinity problem that hydroxide ion obstructs the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D3EE02951D, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mahdi Fasihi, Christian Breyer The production cost of green methanol from renewable electricity-based hydrogen and atmospheric carbon dioxide could reach market prices by 2040, making it a potential solution for defossilisation of the global chemical industry and marine transport. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00646A, Paper Hui Li, Peipei Zuo, Wenyi Wu, Gonggen Tang, Junkai Fang, Tongwen Xu, Zhengjin Yang State-of-the-art high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells enabled by the phosphoric acid-doped polybenzimidazole material platform are promising for long-haul transport, but suffer from low output power, low Pt utilization, and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00796D, Review Article Shipeng Jia, Shinichi Kumakura, Eric McCalla With the increasing demand for energy and growing environmental concerns, sodium-ion batteries have garnered significant attention in recent years as a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries. This is due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00020J, Paper Michael W. Martinez-Szewczyk, Steven J. DiGregorio, Owen Hildreth, Mariana I. Bertoni ITRPV silver consumption of standard low-temperature and high-temperature paste as compared to reactive silver ink. As little as 16.4 mg of silver is consumed when a busbarless cell is metallized with reactive silver ink. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00318G, Paper Zimin Yang, Yi-Lun Sun, Siting Deng, Hao Tong, Mingqiang Wu, Xinbin Nie, Yifan Su, Guanjie He, Yinghe Zhang, Jianwei Li, Guoliang Chai Irreversible Zn plating/stripping along with interfacial degradation seriously affect the practical applications of aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Herein, 3-(hydroxy (phenyl) phosphoryl) propanoic acid (HPA) is introduced as an electrolyte additive that... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00048J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hakhyeon Song, Carlos A. Fernandez, Hyeonuk Choi, Po-Wei Huang, Jihun Oh, Marta C. Hatzell Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) offers an environmentally friendly method to transform and harness sequestered CO2. While gas-phase electrolysis systems provide high efficiency, gas-phase electrolysis systems face challenges related to carbonate... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00580E, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Luyin Tang, Tianyu Li, Wenjing Lu, Xianfeng Li The robust and reversible solid bromine complexation effect was incorporated into electrodes, endowing bromine-based flow batteries with ultralow self-discharge. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D3EE03913G, Paper Zhengxin Zhu, Zehui Xie, Wei Ping Wang, Zaichun Liu, Mingming Wang, Yahan Meng, Qia Peng, Shuang Liu, Taoli Jiang, Kai Zhang, Hongxu Liu, Yirui Ma, Wei Chen Self-charging aqueous metal-based batteries are attracting extensive attention in energy conversion and storage technologies. However, they are constrained to chemically self-charging mode by oxygen gas (O2) reactants and suffer from... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00357H, Review Article Haoyang Ge, Xian Xie, Xuesong Xie, Bingyao Zhang, Shenglong Li, Shuquan Liang, Bingan Lu, Jiang Zhou Zinc-based batteries are regarded as promising power sources for flexible and wearable electronics due to their merits of low cost, durability, intrinsic safety, satisfactory theoretical energy density, and simple structure.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00750F, Paper Feipeng Zhao, Shumin Zhang, Shuo Wang, Carmen M. Andrei, Hui Yuan, Jigang Zhou, Jian Wang, Zengqing Zhuo, Yu Zhong, Han Su, Jung Tae Kim, Ruizhi Yu, Yingjie Gao, Jinghua Guo, Tsun-Kong Sham, Yifei Mo, Xueliang Sun All-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) are highly desirable for their sustainability, enhanced safety, and increased energy densities. The compatibility between cathodes and solid electrolytes (SEs) is critical for ASSLB electrochemical performance.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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