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Half-Heusler thermoelectrics: Advances from materials fundamental to device engineering Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Wenjie Li, Subrata Ghosh, Na Liu, Bed Poudel
The potential widespread adoption of thermoelectric (TE) technology in energy harvesting applications hinges upon the high-performance, reliable, and cost-effective module development. Half-Heusler (hH) alloys show great promise, especially for efficient and reliable thermal to electrical energy conversion at medium to high temperatures, due to their tunable and favorable electronic structures, diverse
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Making resource adequacy a private good: The good, the bad, and the ugly Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Xiyu Ren, Iacopo Savelli, Thomas Morstyn
Xiyu Ren is a DPhil candidate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the School of Geography and the Environment, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in energy and environmental economics, particularly in energy modeling, electricity market design, times-series analysis, and environmental policies
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Opportunities for quantum computing within net-zero power system optimization Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Thomas Morstyn, Xiangyue Wang
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An energetic K+-S aqueous battery with 96% sulfur redox utilization Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Boya Wang, Wanhai Zhou, Yanyan Zhang, Tengsheng Zhang, Xinran Li, Yutong Feng, Ruizheng Zhao, Wei Li, Ahmed Elzatahry, Yasser Hassan, Dongyuan Zhao, Dongliang Chao
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Potassium ion modulation of the Cu electrode-electrolyte interface with ionomers enhances CO2 reduction to C2+ products Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Gavin P. Heim, Meaghan A. Bruening, Charles B. Musgrave, William A. Goddard, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie
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A taxonomy to guide the next generation of support mechanisms for electricity storage Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Paolo Mastropietro, Pablo Rodilla, Carlos Batlle
Paolo Mastropietro is a research associate professor at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He is an environmental engineer specializing in energy and sustainability. Before entering academia, he worked in the private sector in several European countries, and in 2011, he was selected for the UNV (United Nations Volunteers) Program and served for 1 year as project officer at the UNEP (United
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Expediting the technology readiness level of CO2 electrolysis Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Yi Xie, Ying Wang
Recently, in Nature, Xia, Yao, Wang, and co-workers reported a proton-exchange membrane-based electrolyzer that continuously reduces CO2 to formic acid for more than 5,200 h at a current density of 600 mA cm−2 with a cell voltage of 2.2 V. This preview highlights the significance of this advancement in commercializing the CO2 electrolyzer and outlines the need for the next steps.
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High-performance and durable Fe–N–C fuel cell catalysts Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Xiaoyi Qiu, Yian Wang, Minhua Shao
In a recent issue of Nature Catalysis, Zeng et al. reported an exciting iron-nitrogen-carbon (Fe–N–C) catalyst, which was synthesized by introducing an optimal amount of hydrogen gas during the pyrolysis process. The fuel-cell performance and durability of Fe–N–C is comparable to that of a commercial platinum carbon (Pt/C) catalyst. Their astute approach may provide valuable insights into the preparation
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Photo-doping of spiro-OMeTAD for highly stable and efficient perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Seul-Gi Kim, George C. Fish, Etienne Socie, Aaron T. Terpstra, Dong-Am Park, Kai Zhu, Michael Grätzel, Jacques-E. Moser, Nam-Gyu Park
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A data-driven bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst with a record-breaking ΔE = 0.57 V for ampere-hour-scale zinc-air batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Jia-Ning Liu, Chang-Xin Zhao, Juan Wang, Xuan-Qi Fang, Chen-Xi Bi, Bo-Quan Li, Qiang Zhang
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Deep learning of experimental electrochemistry for battery cathodes across diverse compositions Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Peichen Zhong, Bowen Deng, Tanjin He, Zhengyan Lun, Gerbrand Ceder
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Another role of CO-formation catalyst in acidic tandem CO2 electroreduction: Local pH modulator Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Fu-Zhi Li, Hai-Gang Qin, Huan-Lei Zhang, Xian Yue, Lin-Ke Fu, Bingjun Xu, Meng Lin, Jun Gu
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Simplified fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells through the design of self-assembling hole-transport molecules Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Zhihao Chen, Shaoqing Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jiangbo Dai, Yue Yu, Huixue Li, Xiaotao Hao, Jianhui Hou
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Integration of polyoxometalate clusters with self-assembled monolayer for efficient and robust organic solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Baobing Fan, Huanhuan Gao, Yanxun Li, Yiwen Wang, Chaowei Zhao, Francis R. Lin, Alex K.-Y. Jen
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Phase-stable indium sulfide achieves an energy conversion efficiency of 14.3% for solar-assisted carbon dioxide reduction to formate Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Qixing Zhang, Jing Gao, Xinjiang Wang, Jianrong Zeng, Jun Li, Zhongke Wang, Han He, Jingshan Luo, Ying Zhao, Lijun Zhang, Michael Grätzel, Xiaodan Zhang
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Highly reversible tin redox chemistry for stable anode-free acidic proton battery Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Zuhao Yu, Qiong Wang, Yating Li, Fengyi Zhang, Xiaohui Ma, Xi Zhang, Yonggang Wang, Jianhang Huang, Yongyao Xia
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Technological roadmap for potassium-ion hybrid capacitors Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Shuoqing Zhao, Guohao Li, Bohan Zhang, Tianming Li, Mingchuan Luo, Bing Sun, Guoxiu Wang, Shaojun Guo
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Phosphorus-induced anti-growth of ruthenium clusters-single atoms for ultra-stable hydrogen evolution over 100,000 cycles Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Zian Xu, Jian Zhu, Zheng Shu, Yu Xia, Rouxi Chen, Shaoqing Chen, Yu Wang, Lin Zeng, Jiacheng Wang, Yongqing Cai, Shi Chen, Fuqiang Huang, Hsing-Lin Wang
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Grand challenges in anticipating and responding to critical materials supply risks Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Anthony Y. Ku, Elisa Alonso, Roderick Eggert, Thomas Graedel, Komal Habib, Alessandra Hool, Toru Muta, Dieuwertje Schrijvers, Luis Tercero, Tatiana Vakhitova, Constanze Veeh
Critical materials are resources that are vulnerable to supply disruptions, where those disruptions can have significant adverse impacts on society. In the coming years, materials supply risks associated with the energy transition and geopolitics are likely to intensify and new risks are expected to emerge. This perspective identifies three “Grand Challenges” that represent frontier areas for critical
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Grain-boundary grooves in perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Mingwei Hao, Yuanyuan Zhou
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Decarbonizing the media, broadcast, and streaming industry Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Mohit Arora, Iain McClenaghan
Download : Download high-res image (341KB) Download : Download full-size imageMohit is a Lead R&D engineer in sustainable engineering at BBC Research and Development, and a Lecturer in engineering at the Net Zero Centre, King’s College London. He investigates strategic research questions around the sustainability and Net Zero transition of the global media, broadcast, and streaming industry. Prior
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Grain orientation management and recombination suppression for ultra-stable PeLEDs with record brightness Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Zhiqi Li, Zhiwei Ren, Qiong Liang, Patrick W.K. Fong, Heng Liu, Xinhui Lu, Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Gang Li
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Toolsets for assessing ionic migration in halide perovskites Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Natalia Yantara, Nripan Mathews
Halide perovskites, known for their tunable and exceptional optoelectronic properties, have been extensively explored for photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, and memristors. With solar cell efficiencies closing on theoretical limits, stabilization of perovskite devices—especially via control of the ionic activity within the device—is a research gap that needs to be addressed before
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Evolutionary manufacturing approaches for advancing flexible perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jieqiong Liu, Dexu Zheng, Kai Wang, Zhipeng Li, Shengzhong Liu, Lei Peng, Dong Yang
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Unveiling transport mechanisms of cesium and water in operando zero-gap CO2 electrolyzers Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Bjørt Óladóttir Joensen, José A. Zamora Zeledón, Lena Trotochaud, Andrea Sartori, Marta Mirolo, Asger Barkholt Moss, Sahil Garg, Ib Chorkendorff, Jakub Drnec, Brian Seger, Qiucheng Xu
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A global statistical assessment of designing silicon-based solar cells for geographical markets Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Hesan Ziar
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Ordering one-dimensional chains enables efficient selenium photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Wenbo Lu, Mingjie Feng, Zongbao Li, Bin Yan, Shuo Wang, Xin Wen, Xiaoyan An, Shunchang Liu, Jin-Song Hu, Ding-Jiang Xue
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Highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells via a multifunctional hole transporting material Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Junjie Zhou, Liguo Tan, Yue Liu, Hang Li, Xiaopeng Liu, Minghao Li, Siyang Wang, Yu Zhang, Chaofan Jiang, Ruimao Hua, Wolfgang Tress, Simone Meloni, Chenyi Yi
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Green urea production for sustainable agriculture Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Chengliang Mao, Jaewon Byun, Hamish W. MacLeod, Christos T. Maravelias, Geoffrey A. Ozin
In a global mission to reduce atmospheric concentrations of anthropogenic carbon dioxide, the energy- and carbon-emission-intensive, century-old urea industry has re-captured attention. Today, global urea manufacture from the reaction of ammonia and carbon dioxide, enabled by the Bosch-Meiser process, yields 910 kg of CO2 for every ton of urea generated. This amount of CO2 is close to the quantity
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Semi-supervised learning for explainable few-shot battery lifetime prediction Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nanlin Guo, Sihui Chen, Jun Tao, Yang Liu, Jiayu Wan, Xin Li
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Discovery of the Zintl-phosphide BaCd2P2 as a long carrier lifetime and stable solar absorber Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Zhenkun Yuan, Diana Dahliah, Muhammad Rubaiat Hasan, Gideon Kassa, Andrew Pike, Shaham Quadir, Romain Claes, Cierra Chandler, Yihuang Xiong, Victoria Kyveryga, Philip Yox, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Ismaila Dabo, Andriy Zakutayev, David P. Fenning, Obadiah G. Reid, Sage Bauers, Jifeng Liu, Kirill Kovnir, Geoffroy Hautier
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Direct capacity regeneration for spent Li-ion batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Nobuhiro Ogihara, Katsuhiko Nagaya, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Yasuhito Kondo, Yuka Yamada, Takahiro Horiba, Takeshi Baba, Nobuko Ohba, Shogo Komagata, Yoshifumi Aoki, Hiroki Kondo, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Shinobu Okayama
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High-temperature anion-exchange membrane fuel cells with balanced water management and enhanced stability Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jiandang Xue, John C. Douglin, Karam Yassin, Tong Huang, Haifei Jiang, Junfeng Zhang, Yan Yin, Dario R. Dekel, Michael D. Guiver
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Work function tuning of a weak adhesion homojunction for stable perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Chunyang Zhang, Yoosang Son, Hyungjun Kim, Sun-Ho Lee, Xin Liang, Guiming Fu, Sang-Uk Lee, Dong-Am Park, Qi Jiang, Kai Zhu, Nam-Gyu Park
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Pathways to reduce the energy cost of carbon monoxide electroreduction to ethylene Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Tartela Alkayyali, Mohammad Zargartalebi, Adnan Ozden, Fatemeh Arabyarmohammadi, Roham Dorakhan, Jonathan P. Edwards, Feng Li, Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, Mengyang Fan, Aimy Bazylak, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton
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Simultaneously engineering electronic and phonon band structures for high-performance n-type polycrystalline SnSe Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Sejin Byun, Bangzhi Ge, Hyungjun Song, Sung-Pyo Cho, Moo Sun Hong, Jino Im, In Chung
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Alkaline electrolyzers: Powering industries and overcoming fundamental challenges Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nicolas Dubouis, David Aymé-Perrot, Damien Degoulange, Alexis Grimaud, Hubert Girault
For the sustainable development of the renewable hydrogen sector, alkaline electrolysis appears to be a technology of choice. Nevertheless, despite its long history that showed its reliability in the industrial field and despite the traditional belief from the scientific community, alkaline electrolyzer technology still requires optimization to meet the new challenges imposed by the deployment of large
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Large-area organic photovoltaic modules with 14.5% certified world record efficiency Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Robin Basu, Fabian Gumpert, Jan Lohbreier, Pierre-Olivier Morin, Varun Vohra, Yang Liu, Yinhua Zhou, Christoph J. Brabec, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, Andreas Distler
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Best practices for evaluating the performance of thermoelectric devices Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Raju Chetty, Jayachandran Babu, Takao Mori
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Considering technology characteristics to project future costs of direct air capture Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Katrin Sievert, Tobias S. Schmidt, Bjarne Steffen
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Quantifying the costs of diversifying silicon PV module assembly with local economic policies Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mohammad Dehghanimadvar, Renate Egan, Nathan L. Chang
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Overcoming stability limitations of efficient, flexible perovskite solar modules Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Da Seul Lee, Ki Woong Kim, You-Hyun Seo, Myung Hyun Ann, Wonkyu Lee, Jiyeon Nam, Jaehoon Chung, Gabkyung Seo, Seongsik Nam, Boo Soo Ma, Teak-Soo Kim, Yoonmook Kang, Nam Joong Jeon, Jangwon Seo, Seong Sik Shin
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Non-laser and all-vapor-phase processed perovskite solar modules stabilized by naturally formed barrier layers Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Dongrui Jiang, Zheng Liu, Jinzhao Li, Huanqi Cao, Yicheng Qian, Zhixin Ren, Shifu Zhang, Yuan Qiu, Chao Zhang, Junfeng Wei, Liying Yang, Shougen Yin
In perovskite solar modules (PSMs) patterned by laser scribing, perovskite and electrode materials directly contact at the scribed edges, resulting in rapid decomposition due to the interdiffusion of atoms at the contact. We develop a non-laser additive method for manufacturing PSMs, in which an adjustable wire mask (AWM) was used to form the channels that were traditionally scribed by lasers. All
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The EU additionality rule does not guarantee additionality Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Johannes Schmidt, Sebastian Wehrle, Olga Turkovska, Peter Regner
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Designing interphases for highly reversible aqueous zinc batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Glenn R. Pastel, Travis P. Pollard, Qian Liu, Sydney Lavan, Qijia Zhu, Rongzhong Jiang, Lin Ma, Justin Connell, Oleg Borodin, Marshall A. Schroeder, Zhengcheng Zhang, Kang Xu
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The resource demands of multi-terawatt-scale perovskite tandem photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Lukas Wagner, Jiajia Suo, Bowen Yang, Dmitry Bogachuk, Estelle Gervais, Robert Pietzcker, Andrea Gassmann, Jan Christoph Goldschmidt
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Removing electrochemical constraints on polytetrafluoroethylene as dry-process binder for high-loading graphite anodes Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ziqi Wei, Dewen Kong, Lijiao Quan, Jiarong He, Jingyuan Liu, Ziyuan Tang, Si Chen, Qinqin Cai, Ruiqin Zhang, Haijing Liu, Kang Xu, Lidan Xing, Weishan Li
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Materials and chemistry design for low-temperature all-solid-state batteries Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Pushun Lu, Zhimin Zhou, Zuxiang Xiao, Jiaze Lu, Jiaxu Zhang, Guantai Hu, Wenlin Yan, Shengjie Xia, Shutao Zhang, Ziqing Wang, Hong Li, Changhong Wang, Fan Wu, Xueliang Sun
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) have garnered significant interest due to their exceptional safety features and high theoretical energy density. Despite extensive research demonstrating the impressive electrochemical performance of ASSBs at moderate and high temperatures, their electrochemical performance significantly degrades in a cold environment, with the underlying mechanism yet to be disclosed
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Silicon heterojunction solar cells achieving 26.6% efficiency on commercial-size p-type silicon wafer Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Xiaoning Ru, Miao Yang, Shi Yin, Yichun Wang, Chengjian Hong, Fuguo Peng, Yunlai Yuan, Chang Sun, Chaowei Xue, Minghao Qu, Jianbo Wang, Junxiong Lu, Liang Fang, Hao Deng, Tian Xie, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu, Zhenguo Li, Xixiang Xu
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A roadmap for tandem photovoltaics Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Kirstin Alberi, Joseph J. Berry, Jacob J. Cordell, Daniel J. Friedman, John F. Geisz, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Bryon W. Larson, William E. McMahon, Lorelle M. Mansfield, Paul F. Ndione, Michael Owen-Bellini, Axel F. Palmstrom, Matthew O. Reese, Samantha B. Reese, Myles A. Steiner, Adele C. Tamboli, San Theingi, Emily L. Warren
Combining two or more junctions into a tandem solar cell promises to deliver a leap in power conversion efficiency that will help to sustain continued growth in installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity. Although tandems are now on the roadmaps of many PV manufacturers, much work remains before they are ready for mass deployment. Accelerating their development requires advances on many fronts. In this article
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Unlocking solar-driven synergistic clean water harvesting and sustainable fuel production Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Shuai Guo, Swee Ching Tan
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Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells with ionomerless cathodes Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Tao Yang, Zhixiang Chen, Yongchao Yang, Shenlong Zhao
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Nanoscale science for terawatt/gigaton scale performance of clean energy technologies Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Dirk C. Jordan, Steven C. Hayden, Nancy M. Haegel, Paul Veers, Shaun Alia, Teresa Barnes, Ashley Gaulding, Katherine L. Jungjohann
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Photovoltaic-sorbent system for water and electricity generation Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Zhao Shao, Primož Poredoš, Ruzhu Wang
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Technoeconomic analysis of small modular reactors decarbonizing industrial process heat Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Max Vanatta, Deep Patel, Todd Allen, Daniel Cooper, Michael T. Craig
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Three-dimensional multi-layer carbon tube electrodes for AC line-filtering capacitors Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Gan Chen, Fangming Han, Dou Lin, Shiping Zhang, Qijun Pan, Cheng Shao, Zhaoming Wang, Xiaoguang Zhu, Guowen Meng, Bingqing Wei
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Cradle-to-cradle recycling in terawatt photovoltaics: A vision of perpetual utility Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ian Marius Peters, Jens Hauch, Christoph Brabec
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Nonaqueous electrolytes for reversible zinc electrodeposition for dynamic windows with excellent optical contrast and durability Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nikhil C. Bhoumik, Desmond C. Madu, Cheon Woo Moon, Lorenzo S. Arvisu, Michael D. McGehee, Christopher J. Barile
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Enhanced passivation durability in perovskite solar cells via concentration-independent passivators Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sisi Wang, Canglang Yao, Lun Li, Tianyi Huang, Shaun Tan, Pengju Shi, Shiyin Jin, Chenhui Zhu, Yang Yang, Bowen Zhu, Jingjing Xue, Rui Wang
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Heat pumps for all? Distributions of the costs and benefits of residential air-source heat pumps in the United States Joule (IF 39.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Eric J.H. Wilson, Prateek Munankarmi, Brennan D. Less, Janet L. Reyna, Stacey Rothgeb