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Simplifying solar adoption regulation Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Silvana Lakeman
European Union member states have ambitions to encourage renewable energy plants, such as those based on solar photovoltaics (PV). However, legal uncertainty and the direct and indirect costs associated with investment are often barriers to installation, particularly for small and medium-sized installations. Financial incentivization has been a popular policy choice to stimulate investment to date
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Stability in the big picture Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Giulia Tregnago
The limited operational stability of perovskite solar cells is a drawback that requires a greater knowledge of degradation behaviour to be addressed. While some insights have been gleaned from individual studies based on relatively small datasets, a statistical analysis of stability data from a large number of devices with different characteristics would afford a more comprehensive understanding. Yet
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Willingness to lease Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Nicky Dean
Heat pumps are expected to play a critical role in decarbonizing heat provision in buildings. However, their high purchase and installation costs — often coupled with a lack of familiarity with the technology — are barriers to uptake. Asset leasing could provide an alternative model to immediate purchasing. Under such schemes, a homeowner would pay monthly costs for the heat pump, as well as potentially
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Fabrication and recycling made easier Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Changjun Zhang
To achieve a circular economy for next-generation energy storage technologies such as solid-state batteries (SSBs), it is important to develop component materials that can be easily processed to form cells, as well as recycled and/or repurposed with ease. Yet current SSB manufacturing often requires high-temperature and high-pressure processing to create conformal interfaces between electrolyte particles
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Costing out fuel cells Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 James Gallagher
Hydrogen fuel cells present a low-emission means of powering vehicles. Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are a relatively mature technology, already powering commercially available cars. An alternative to the PEMFC is the hydroxide-exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC), which is at an earlier stage of development and operates in an alkaline — rather than acidic — environment. The conditions
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A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Patricia Romero-Lankao, Nicole Rosner, Christof Brandtner, Christopher Rea, Adolfo Mejia-Montero, Francesca Pilo, Fedor Dokshin, Vanesa Castan-Broto, Sarah Burch, Scott Schnur
The important role of justice in energy transition technologies has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. However, key questions remain about how inequities influence energy transition innovations (ETIs) from their design to their widespread use, which ETIs receive more funding, and who controls ETI research, prototyping and deployment. Here we propose a framework to centre justice in
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Energy storage solutions to decarbonize electricity through enhanced capacity expansion modelling Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Todd Levin, John Bistline, Ramteen Sioshansi, Wesley J. Cole, Jonghwan Kwon, Scott P. Burger, George W. Crabtree, Jesse D. Jenkins, Rebecca O’Neil, Magnus Korpås, Sonja Wogrin, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Robert Rosner, Venkat Srinivasan, Audun Botterud
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Ceramic electrochemical cells that operate at temperatures below 450 °C Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-14
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A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Iain Staffell, Stefan Pfenninger, Nathan Johnson
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Designing phosphazene-derivative electrolyte matrices to enable high-voltage lithium metal batteries for extreme working conditions Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Yuefeng Meng, Dong Zhou, Ruliang Liu, Yao Tian, Yifu Gao, Yao Wang, Bing Sun, Feiyu Kang, Michel Armand, Baohua Li, Guoxiu Wang, Doron Aurbach
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A contact-electro-catalytic cathode recycling method for spent lithium-ion batteries Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Huifan Li, Andy Berbille, Xin Zhao, Ziming Wang, Wei Tang, Zhong Lin Wang
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Lowering the operating temperature of protonic ceramic electrochemical cells to <450 °C Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Fan Liu, Hao Deng, David Diercks, Praveen Kumar, Mohammed Hussain Abdul Jabbar, Cenk Gumeci, Yoshihisa Furuya, Nilesh Dale, Takanori Oku, Masahiro Usuda, Pejman Kazempoor, Liyang Fang, Di Chen, Bin Liu, Chuancheng Duan
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Mechanisms for improved open-circuit voltage in ternary organic solar cells Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-06
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Gold accepts holes to couple methane Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Ying Wang, Jinlin Long
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Issues impeding the commercialization of laboratory innovations for energy-dense Si-containing lithium-ion batteries Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Namhyung Kim, Yujin Kim, Jaekyung Sung, Jaephil Cho
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A phenazine-based high-capacity and high-stability electrochemical CO2 capture cell with coupled electricity storage Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Shuai Pang, Shijian Jin, Fengcun Yang, Maia Alberts, Lu Li, Dawei Xi, Roy G. Gordon, Pan Wang, Michael J. Aziz, Yunlong Ji
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Emissions from natural hydrogen Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 James Gallagher
Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in future decarbonized energy systems. It is typically considered that in such systems, hydrogen would need to be synthesized in some way; for instance, by the electrolysis of water. However, hydrogen also exists naturally in subsurface geologic accumulations, suggesting another source of the gas. Although naturally-occurring hydrogen has been found in various
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Tuning the composition Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Changjun Zhang
Solid-state batteries have the potential for higher energy and power, as well as better safety, than conventional lithium-ion batteries; solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) lie at the heart of them. A common issue with the use of SSEs is the poor contact with the electrodes and consequently high ionic resistance within batteries; the resistance becomes more severe in thicker electrodes. This restricts
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Towards smarter car charging Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Nicky Dean
As electric vehicle (EV) penetration increases, it will become more important to manage the load on the grid from additional charging. Smart charging technologies offer one way to do this. Such schemes can use real-time price or grid load information and user-set preferences to optimize charging. Another option for load management is time-of-use (ToU) tariffs, where consumers are given price incentives
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Cool shadings Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Giulia Tregnago
The energy consumed by space cooling in buildings has increased significantly over the years and it is predicted to be one of the main drivers of global electricity demand in the coming decades. Passive cooling measures, which are relatively straightforward to implement, have been shown to reduce energy demand for space cooling when considering individual buildings or regional scales. However, the
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Behaviourally-informed peer referral programmes can increase the reach of low-income energy policies Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Kimberly S. Wolske, Annika Todd-Blick, Emma Tome
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Marginal abatement cost of alternative marine fuels and the role of market-based measures Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Sotiria Lagouvardou, Benjamin Lagemann, Harilaos N. Psaraftis, Elizabeth Lindstad, Stein Ove Erikstad
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Sharing the cost of wildfire resilience Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Line A. Roald
Preparing the electric grid to withstand adverse impacts from climate change will require significant investments. New research focused on wildfire risk mitigation in California demonstrates that how the cost of such investments is shared has important implications for affordability and equity in electricity access.
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Moving beyond two-carbon products Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Jackson Crane, Cao-Thang Dinh
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Breaking down costs Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Noah Kittner
The cost of solar photovoltaics has declined over the past two decades, but the driving mechanisms are not fully understood. Now, researchers examine the role of hardware and non-hardware features in cost reduction of photovoltaics and develop a model that could be used to understand cost reductions for other energy technologies.
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Imidazolium-functionalized Mo3P nanoparticles with an ionomer coating for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to propane Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Mohammadreza Esmaeilirad, Zhen Jiang, Ahmad M. Harzandi, Alireza Kondori, Mahmoud Tamadoni Saray, Carlo U. Segre, Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, Andrew M. Rappe, Mohammad Asadi
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Mechanisms of hardware and soft technology evolution and the implications for solar energy cost trends Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Magdalena M. Klemun, Goksin Kavlak, James McNerney, Jessika E. Trancik
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Efficient hole abstraction for highly selective oxidative coupling of methane by Au-sputtered TiO2 photocatalysts Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Xiyi Li, Chao Li, Youxun Xu, Qiong Liu, Mounib Bahri, Liquan Zhang, Nigel D. Browning, Alexander J. Cowan, Junwang Tang
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Catholytes that mimic ionic liquids Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Ryoichi Kanega, Takashi Funaki, Akihiro Ohira
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Accelerated ageing of organic and perovskite photovoltaics Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Quinn C. Burlingame, Yueh-Lin Loo, E. A. Katz
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A new cooperation agenda for European energy security Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo, Trine Villumsen Berling
Europe’s approach to energy security has been historically split between the East and West. Given the rapidly evolving geopolitical energy security landscape on the continent, we argue that a comprehensive and shared approach to energy security — which incorporates hard security considerations — is needed.
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Silicon solar cell with undoped tin oxide transparent electrode Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Cao Yu, Qiaojiao Zou, Qi Wang, Yu Zhao, Xiaochao Ran, Gangqiang Dong, Chen-Wei Peng, Vince Allen, Xinming Cao, Jian Zhou, Ying Zhao, Xiaodan Zhang
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Local and utility-wide cost allocations for a more equitable wildfire-resilient distribution grid Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Zhecheng Wang, Michael Wara, Arun Majumdar, Ram Rajagopal
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The energy efficiency gap in citizens’ own words Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Endre Tvinnereim
Understanding drivers of home energy efficiency efforts is important for slowing climate change and managing energy costs. A study now combines open-ended survey questions with natural language processing to find that renovations are typically motivated by factors like comfort and environmental concerns, and that energy efficiency investments are often delayed until renovations are needed.
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Modular dimerization of organic radicals for stable and dense flow battery catholyte Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Xiu-Liang Lv, Patrick T. Sullivan, Wenjie Li, Hui-Chun Fu, Ryan Jacobs, Chih-Jung Chen, Dane Morgan, Song Jin, Dawei Feng
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Impact of siting ordinances on land availability for wind and solar development Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Anthony Lopez, Wesley Cole, Brian Sergi, Aaron Levine, Jesse Carey, Cailee Mangan, Trieu Mai, Travis Williams, Pavlo Pinchuk, Jianyu Gu
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Atomic pinning mitigates voltage decay in a lithium-rich layered oxide Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-02
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Phase-heterojunction all-inorganic perovskite solar cells surpassing 21.5% efficiency Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Sawanta S. Mali, Jyoti V. Patil, Jiang-Yang Shao, Yu-Wu Zhong, Sachin R. Rondiya, Nelson Y. Dzade, Chang Kook Hong
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A socio-technical approach for the assessment of critical infrastructure system vulnerability in extreme weather events Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Juan P. Montoya-Rincon, Said A. Mejia-Manrique, Shams Azad, Masoud Ghandehari, Eric W. Harmsen, Reza Khanbilvardi, Jorge E. Gonzalez-Cruz
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Origins of the open-circuit voltage in ternary organic solar cells and design rules for minimized voltage losses Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Yuming Wang, Jianwei Yu, Rui Zhang, Jun Yuan, Sandra Hultmark, Catherine E. Johnson, Nathaniel P. Gallop, Bernhard Siegmund, Deping Qian, Huotian Zhang, Yingping Zou, Martijn Kemerink, Artem A. Bakulin, Christian Müller, Koen Vandewal, Xian-Kai Chen, Feng Gao
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The best of both modes Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Giulia Tregnago
Caloric cooling represents an environmentally friendly alternative to vapour compression refrigeration as it does not require refrigerants with high global warming potential. Instead, it exploits the phase transitions of solids, driven by magnetic fields or mechanical forces, which are associated with absorption or release of heat. In particular, elastocaloric cooling is attractive as it relies on
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Devices for Li-mediated synthesis Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 James Gallagher
Electrifying the synthesis of ammonia could help to decarbonize production of this important chemical and pave the way for its use as a low-carbon energy carrier. A promising approach in its early stages of development is the lithium-mediated method of N2 reduction. This process is thought to proceed by lithium metal reacting with N2 to form nitrides, which are then protonated to form ammonia and a
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Coating and compressing Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Changjun Zhang
In commercial lithium-ion batteries, carbonate-based electrolytes are commonly used because of their high electrochemical stability with a range of electrode materials. In lithium-metal batteries (LMBs) — batteries in which the anode is metallic lithium — ether electrolytes appear to be the preferred choice because they are less corrosive than carbonates towards lithium metal, thereby offering potentially
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Granularity and green recovery Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Silvana Lakeman
Many different approaches to assess the effectiveness of COVID-19 green recovery spending have been suggested, including a focus on the deployment of more granular technologies. Such technologies comprise a number of mitigation options across a range of greenhouse gas emitting sectors. Granular technologies (such as solar panels or home insulation) tend to have lower per unit costs than more costly
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Climate change impacts on planned supply–demand match in global wind and solar energy systems Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Laibao Liu, Gang He, Mengxi Wu, Gang Liu, Haoran Zhang, Ying Chen, Jiashu Shen, Shuangcheng Li
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Unequal residential heating burden caused by combined heat and power phase-out under climate goals Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Zhaohua Wang, Hao Li, Bin Zhang, Bo Wang, Hao Li, Xin Tian, Jiang Lin, Wei Feng
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Sodium-ion batteries: capturing and reducing defects Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jacob Choe, Jong Min Yuk
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Insights into advanced models for energy poverty forecasting Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Montserrat González Garibay, Kaja Primc, Renata Slabe-Erker
The growing importance of long-term planning in European Union member states’ energy poverty policies makes it necessary to develop forecasting techniques to support related policy decision-making. The combination of machine learning and econometrics holds promise in the field provided that several crucial challenges are tackled.
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Contextualizing coal communities for Australia’s new Net Zero Authority Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Rebecca M. Colvin
Australia’s newly announced national Net Zero Authority offers an opportunity to constructively engage coal communities in planning for a decarbonized future. After years of toxic and dysfunctional climate politics, it is essential that the Authority engages with the complexity of coal and the communities at the heart of transition.
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Using narratives to infer preferences in understanding the energy efficiency gap Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Tobias Wekhof, Sébastien Houde
Investing in energy efficiency is crucial for a low-carbon economy, particularly in the building sector. Despite various subsidy programmes, meeting energy targets is challenging because households do not invest sufficiently. Here we study the low numbers of energy efficiency retrofits carried out by homeowners. We use narratives, an emerging method based on open-ended survey responses, to identify
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Connecting women in the hydrogen world Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Kathrin Goldammer
Kathrin Goldammer describes the founding and aims of Women in Green Hydrogen, a global network that seeks to increase the visibility and amplify the voices of women working in the sector.
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Emissions savings from equitable energy demand reduction Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Milena Büchs, Noel Cass, Caroline Mullen, Karen Lucas, Diana Ivanova
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Identifying the intrinsic anti-site defect in manganese-rich NASICON-type cathodes Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Yuan Liu, Xiaohui Rong, Rui Bai, Ruijuan Xiao, Chunliu Xu, Chu Zhang, Juping Xu, Wen Yin, Qinghua Zhang, Xinmiao Liang, Yaxiang Lu, Junmei Zhao, Liquan Chen, Yong-Sheng Hu
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Tensions between local interests and broader gains Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Valerie J. Karplus, Da Zhang
China’s electricity market reforms aim to improve the operational efficiency of the power sector, while simultaneously supporting reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. New research shows that the influence of local interests may limit gains to half of their estimated potential.
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Engineering relaxors by entropy for high energy storage performance Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Bingbing Yang, Qinghua Zhang, Houbing Huang, Hao Pan, Wenxuan Zhu, Fanqi Meng, Shun Lan, Yiqian Liu, Bin Wei, Yiqun Liu, Letao Yang, Lin Gu, Long-Qing Chen, Ce-Wen Nan, Yuan-Hua Lin
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Diversifying the solvent Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Jiaqi Wei, Xiaodong Chen, Shengkai Cao
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High-entropy electrolytes for practical lithium metal batteries Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Sang Cheol Kim, Jingyang Wang, Rong Xu, Pu Zhang, Yuelang Chen, Zhuojun Huang, Yufei Yang, Zhiao Yu, Solomon T. Oyakhire, Wenbo Zhang, Louisa C. Greenburg, Mun Sek Kim, David T. Boyle, Philaphon Sayavong, Yusheng Ye, Jian Qin, Zhenan Bao, Yi Cui
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2D/3D heterojunction engineering at the buried interface towards high-performance inverted methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells Nat. Energy (IF 56.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Haiyun Li, Cong Zhang, Cheng Gong, Daliang Zhang, Hong Zhang, Qixin Zhuang, Xuemeng Yu, Shaokuan Gong, Xihan Chen, Jiabao Yang, Xuanhua Li, Ru Li, Jingwei Li, Jinfei Zhou, Hua Yang, Qianqian Lin, Junhao Chu, Michael Grätzel, Jiangzhao Chen, Zhigang Zang