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Fast-charging lithium-ion batteries require a systems engineering approach Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-07-10 Jingwen Weng, Andreas Jossen, Anna Stefanopoulou, Ju Li, Xuning Feng, Gregory Offer
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A catalytic cycle that enables crude hydrogen separation, storage and transportation Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-07-10 Yue Chen, Xiao Kong, Chengsheng Yang, Yuhe Liao, Ge Gao, Rui Ma, Mi Peng, Weipeng Shao, Heng Zheng, Hui Zhang, Xin Pan, Fan Yang, Yulei Zhu, Zhi Liu, Yong Cao, Ding Ma, Xinhe Bao, Yifeng Zhu
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The reality of battery commercialization Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-07-07 Kieran O’Regan
Bringing advanced battery research into real-world applications remains one of the most difficult challenges, requiring a three-stage, overlapping development process, argues Kieran O’Regan.
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Dynamically expanding the electrochemical stability window during charging Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-07-04
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Self-adaptive electrolytes for fast-charging batteries Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-07-04 Chang-Xin Zhao, Zheng Li, Bin Chen, Fu Chen, Chunsheng Wang
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Conformally coated scaffold design using water-tolerant Pr1.8Ba0.2NiO4.1 for protonic ceramic electrochemical cells with 5,000-h electrolysis stability Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Hanchen Tian, Wei Li, Yueh-Lin Lee, Hongkui Zheng, Qingyuan Li, Liang Ma, Debangsu Bhattacharyya, Xiujuan Chen, Dawei Zhang, Guosheng Li, Yi Wang, Li Li, Qingsong Wang, Fang Xia, Muhammet Kartal, Zhuozhao Shao, Matthew R. Rowles, Wenyuan Li, Wissam A. Saidi, Cijie Liu, Xuemei Li, Jian Luo, Xiaolin Li, Kai He, Xingbo Liu
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Inhibiting defect passivation failure in perovskite for perovskite/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 monolithic tandem solar cells with certified efficiency 27.35% Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-30 Fengtao Pei, Shuping Lin, Zhongyang Zhang, Shiju Lin, Xingye Huang, Ming Zhao, Jian Xu, Xinmeng Zhuang, Ying Zhang, Jiahong Tang, Yanrun Chen, Kailin Li, Lan Wang, Guilin Liu, Dongmin Qian, Huifeng Liu, Wentao Zhou, Yihua Chen, Jianpu Wang, Huanping Zhou, Boyan Li, Dalong Zhong, Yan Jiang, Qi Chen
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Author Correction: Public and local policymaker preferences for large-scale energy project characteristics Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-27 Holly Caggiano, Sara M. Constantino, Chris Greig, Elke U. Weber
Correction to: Nature Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01603-w, published online 1 August 2024.
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Long-cycling lithium-metal batteries via an integrated solid–electrolyte interphase promoted by a progressive dual-passivation coating Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-26 Guo-Xing Li, Rong Kou, Au Nguyen, Ke Wang, Yu-Sheng Li, Jongcheol Lee, Seong H. Kim, Donghai Wang
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Aligning research with energy decision making Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-24
In this month’s issue we talk to six experts about the impact of research on critical energy policy issues and strategies for researchers to engage decision-makers effectively.
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Deployment strategies for Li-rich cathode materials in batteries Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-23 Mengting Zheng, Xinxin Zhu, Hongfei Zheng, Zheng Bo, Jun Lu
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The potential for differentiated vehicle segment tariffs Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Ming Liu, Han Hao, Xin Sun, Yong Geng, David Reiner, Klaus Hubacek, Xiaobo Qu, Jiaqi Lu, Fengqi You, Fuquan Zhao
Globally, electric vehicles (EV) are facing rising tariffs, with markets such as those of the EU and US imposing significant tariffs on EV imports, alongside countries like Turkey, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, which are also introducing higher trade barriers. While tariffs on EVs are seen to help shield local auto industries and jobs, they may also risk limiting continued access to affordable EV imports
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Local energy initiatives Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Silvana Lakeman
Citizen engagement is increasingly recognized as critical for ensuring local communities play a direct role in decision-making processes associated with the energy transition. However, we know comparatively little about how policies at the national and supranational level impact local energy projects, in which citizens are more likely to become involved. Now, Johanna Liljenfeldt and colleagues from
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Misinformation among owners and non-owners Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Nathanael Johnson
Recent research suggests that misinformation about electric vehicles is widely believed, especially by those with conspiratorial mindsets. Simple interventions that challenge the misinformation as false, like fact sheets or chats with artificial intelligence, can reduce belief in this misinformation, showing a possible pathway toward a better-informed public.
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Present status of and future opportunities for all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Jin Wen, Hang Hu, Chao Chen, David P. McMeekin, Ke Xiao, Renxing Lin, Ye Liu, Henry J. Snaith, Jiang Tang, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Hairen Tan
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Stacked for transparency Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Giulia Tregnago
Semi-transparent organic solar cells are suitable for integration into various settings like buildings, automotive vehicles, and greenhouses as electricity-generating elements. For these applications, an important figure of merit is the light utilization efficiency — defined as the product of transparency to visible light and the power conversion efficiency. There is a trade-off between these two parameters:
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Unveiling zinc anode corrosion Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Xinru Li
Zinc batteries are promising for grid-scale energy storage due to their safety, low cost, and high capacity. A key part of their appeal lies in the use of metallic zinc at the anode, which is abundant, non-toxic, and water compatible. However, even when the battery is resting — not charging or discharging — the zinc anode gradually corrodes. Now, Yi Yuan, Alex Robertson and colleagues at the University
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Reframing how we talk about ‘energy poverty’ Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Stefan Bouzarovski, Karla G. Cedano-Villavicencio, Laurence L. Delina, Mari Martiskainen, Tony G. Reames, Neil Simcock
A critical consideration of the dominant vocabulary on home energy injustices around the world is overdue. We briefly unpack terms such as ‘energy poor’, ‘fuel poor’, ‘energy vulnerable’ and ‘hard to reach’, question their utility and argue that they may do more harm than good. While acknowledging our own positionality and past use of such terminology, we argue that future debates on the inability
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The high cost of importing green hydrogen from Africa to Europe Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13
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Durability research is pivotal for perovskite photovoltaics Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Timothy J Silverman, Michael G. Deceglie, Ingrid Repins, Michael Owen-Bellini, Joseph J. Berry, Joshua S. Stein, Laura T. Schelhas
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Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Christian Bretter, Samuel Pearson, Matthew J. Hornsey, Sarah MacInnes, Kai Sassenberg, Belinda Wade, Kevin Winter
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Fluorinated isopropanol for improved defect passivation and reproducibility in perovskite solar cells Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Sisi Wang, Weizhong Tian, Zhendong Cheng, Xiaohuo Shi, Wei Fan, Jingjing Zhou, Danyu Gu, Jingjing Xue, Rui Wang
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Cathode catalyst layers modified with Brønsted acid oxides to improve proton exchange membrane electrolysers for impure water splitting Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Ruguang Wang, Yuting Yang, Jiaxin Guo, Qinhao Zhang, Fahe Cao, Yunjian Wang, Lili Han, Tao Ling
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Carrier management through electrode and electron-selective layer engineering for 10.70% efficiency antimony selenosulfide solar cells Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Jiabin Dong, Qianqian Gao, Li Wu, Junjie Yang, Huizhen Liu, Weihuang Wang, Rongfeng Tang, Jianyu Li, Zixiu Cao, Yue Liu, Han Xu, Pan Zhang, Rutao Meng, Jianpeng Li, Xuejun Xu, Zijun Zhang, Tianchi Li, Tao Chen, Shengzhong ‘Frank’ Liu, Yi Zhang
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Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-05 Lukas Hermwille, Marie Claire Brisbois, Ralitsa Hiteva, Mahir Yazar, Lola Nacke, Jessica Jewell, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Roberto Cantoni, Pao-Yu Oei, Paula Walk, Håvard Haarstad, Max Schulze-Steinen, Zoi Vrontisi, Panagiotis Fragkos, Ioannis Charalampidis, Eeva Kesküla, Annela Anger-Kraavi
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Redesigning electrification of China’s ammonia and methanol industry to balance decarbonization with power system security Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-05 Jiarong Li, Jin Lin, Jianxiao Wang, Xi Lu, Chris P. Nielsen, Michael B. McElroy, Yonghua Song, Jie Song, Xuefeng Lyu, Mingkai Yu, Sirui Wu, Zhipeng Yu
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Efficient and luminescent perovskite solar cells using defect-suppressed SnO2 via excess ligand strategy Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Gabkyung Seo, Jason J. Yoo, Seongsik Nam, Da Seul Lee, Shanshan Gao, Bo Kyung Kim, Sae Jin Sung, Bong Joo Kang, Dane W. deQuilettes, Junho Park, Ji-Sang Park, In Sun Cho, Fabian Rotermund, Sang Il Seok, Seong Sik Shin
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Easing liquidity constraints might be insufficient for exclusive clean cooking fuel use Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-03
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Deconstructing the (un)affordability of clean cooking fuels through a randomized trial in rural Tanzania Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-03 Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Isha Ray, Robert Katikiro, Daniel M. Kammen, Alan Hubbard
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Mapping the cost competitiveness of African green hydrogen imports to Europe Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-02 Florian Egli, Flurina Schneider, Alycia Leonard, Claire Halloran, Nicolas Salmon, Tobias Schmidt, Stephanie Hirmer
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Na and Ti share roles Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-27 James Gallagher
Synthesizing ammonia electrochemically from N2 could help to decarbonize production of this important chemical and potential energy carrier. In recent years, a Li-mediated process has been shown to be effective for ammonia synthesis. In this approach, it is generally believed that when a voltage is applied, Li(I) is reduced to Li metal at the cathode, reacting with N2 to form nitrides; the nitrides
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Contamination control Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-27 Giulia Tregnago
The tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) silicon solar cell is a technology that is gaining traction in the photovoltaic industry due to high performance and competitive manufacturing costs. Yet given the relatively recent development of the technology, its reliability under operational conditions is not yet fully understood. In particular, TOPCon solar cells have been reported to be susceptible
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Ambient pressure storage of high-density methane in nanoporous carbon coated with graphene Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-23 Shuwen Wang, Fernando Vallejos-Burgos, Ayumi Furuse, Hayato Otsuka, Miu Nagae, Yuma Kawamata, Tomonori Ohba, Hirofumi Kanoh, Koki Urita, Hiroo Notohara, Isamu Moriguchi, Hideki Tanaka, Juan P. Marco-Lozar, Joaquín Silvestre-Albero, Takuya Hayashi, Katsumi Kaneko
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Author Correction: US industrial policy may reduce electric vehicle battery supply chain vulnerabilities and influence technology choice Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-19 Anthony L. Cheng, Erica R. H. Fuchs, Jeremy J. Michalek
Correction to: Nature Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01649-w, published online 2 October 2024.
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Stabilizing lithium-metal electrodes with polymer coatings Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-14 Zhuojun Huang, Hao Lyu, Louisa C. Greenburg, Yi Cui, Zhenan Bao
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Small-battery calorimetry for enhanced safety Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Palani Balaya
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Gender equality in Africa’s energy transition Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-09 Silvana Lakeman
Nature Energy talks to Sheila Oparaocha (pictured), Director of the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, and Magi Matinga, Technical Advisor at ENERGIA, about challenges and opportunities for ensuring gender equality in Africa’s energy transition, and how well aligned the fields of advocacy, policy and research are on this issue.
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Analysis and research at the supranational level Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-09 Silvana Lakeman
Salvatore Finamore speaks with Nature Energy about what the Analysis and Research Team at the Council of the European Union does and how they measure impact, while offering insight for researchers looking to reach a policy audience.
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Aromatic amines boost electrolysis Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-30 Sumit Bawari, Stephan N. Steinmann
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Scaling and heating will drive low-temperature CO2 electrolysers to operate at higher temperatures Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Henri M. Pelzer, Nikita Kolobov, David A. Vermaas, Thomas Burdyny
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Author Correction: H2 and CO2 network strategies for the European energy system Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Fabian Hofmann, Christoph Tries, Fabian Neumann, Elisabeth Zeyen, Tom Brown
Correction to: Nature Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01752-6, published online 11 April 2025.
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Elucidating mechanisms of change Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Micah S. Ziegler
Understanding the mechanisms of improvements in energy technologies can inform efforts to drive further innovation. Now, researchers evaluate the role of research and development, along with technology spillovers, in the improvement of light-emitting diodes.
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Rapid technological progress in white light-emitting diodes and its source in innovation and technology spillovers Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Michael P. Weinold, Sergey Kolesnikov, Laura Díaz Anadón
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Understanding non-compliance Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 Silvana Lakeman
As distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar photovoltaics and battery storage grow in popularity at the consumer level, their proportional role in electricity grids is also increasing. Globally, companies have introduced rules surrounding DER integration. However, circumvention of formal processes is not uncommon, with instances of unauthorized DERs noted in many countries, posing challenges
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Rethinking molecular O2 Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 Xinru Li
Compared to conventional metal oxide cathodes found in Li-ion batteries, Li-rich layered oxides introduce an additional charge storage mechanism that involves not just transition metals, but also lattice oxygen, known as anionic redox. These dual (cationic and anionic) redox processes enhance Li-ion utilization and increase capacity, making these materials promising candidates for next-generation batteries
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A job for vacancies Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 James Gallagher
Electrocatalysts based on ruthenium are very active for water oxidation (the reaction that occurs at the anode of an electrolyser) but typically suffer from poor stability. In the harsh acidic and oxidative conditions found at the anode of a proton exchange membrane electrolyser, metal ions can leach out of the catalyst and structural collapse may occur, leading to reduced performance. Now, Zhanwu
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Accelerated degradation Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 Giulia Tregnago
Perovskite solar cells have demonstrated high power conversion efficiency, yet their stability under realistic conditions remains to be convincingly demonstrated. One critical step in addressing the issue is the development of accelerated ageing tests (that is, use of higher stress levels than in real-world conditions) that can reproduce in the laboratory the failure modes observed in the field. It
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Spin-related and non-spin-related effects of magnetic fields on water oxidation Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 Anke Yu, Yuwei Zhang, Siyuan Zhu, Tianze Wu, Zhichuan J. Xu
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Interdependence and the low-carbon energy transition Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Silvana Lakeman
Llewelyn Hughes is a social scientist working on the low-carbon energy transition, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, and Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He talks to Nature Energy about evolving trade relationships and interdependencies in the energy transition, and the role of social sciences research in informing policy in
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Lessons learned from Los Angeles’s just energy transition initiative Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-22 Rachel Sheinberg, Gregory Pierce, Stephanie Pincetl, Gregory Reed
The City of Los Angeles (LA) has committed to reaching a 100% renewable, equitable electricity grid by the year 2035, and in 2021 the city released the LA100 study1, which established the feasibility of local grid decarbonization pathways. This study emphasized that only explicitly justice-oriented strategies2 would ensure equity outcomes. As a result, LA100 was followed by the LA100 Equity Strategies
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An antisolvent-seeding approach to produce stable flexible tandem solar cells Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-18
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Antisolvent seeding of self-assembled monolayers for flexible monolithic perovskite/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 tandem solar cells Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Zhiqin Ying, Shiqian Su, Xin Li, Guoxin Chen, Chongyan Lian, Dikai Lu, Meili Zhang, Xuchao Guo, Hao Tian, Yihan Sun, Linhui Liu, Chuanxiao Xiao, Yuheng Zeng, Chao Zhang, Xi Yang, Jichun Ye
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Accelerating commercial deployment with hydrogen system testbeds Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-17 Jonathan G. Love, Ian D. R. Mackinnon
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Combining the use of CO2 and H2 networks benefits carbon management in Europe Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-11
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H2 and CO2 network strategies for the European energy system Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-11 Fabian Hofmann, Christoph Tries, Fabian Neumann, Elisabeth Zeyen, Tom Brown
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Ratepayer-backed bonds for utility financings Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Joseph Fichera, Paul Sutherland, Martin J. Luby, Varun Rai, Matthew Zachary
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Heat treatment in an oxygen-rich environment to suppress deep-level traps in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell with 11.51% certified efficiency Nat. Energy (IF 60.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Tong Wu, Shuo Chen, Zhenghua Su, Zi Wang, Ping Luo, Zhuanghao Zheng, Jingting Luo, Hongli Ma, Xianghua Zhang, Guangxing Liang
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