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CsPbI3 perovskite solar module with certified aperture area efficiency >18% based on ambient-moisture-assisted surface hydrolysis Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24
Humidity can accelerate degradation by promoting phase transitions and enhancing the defect generation in perovskites. This poses a significant challe…
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Elucidating the optimal material combinations of organic photovoltaics for maximum industrial viability Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24
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Modernizing rechargeable military batteries Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-23
Dr. Brandon J. Hopkins is a lead battery technology engineer at MITRE in the emerging technology division with expertise in techno-economics and decarbonization strategy focused on energy storage, the grid, and electric vehicles. Previously, he worked at Ford Motor Company as a research engineer to advance Ford’s electrification strategy. At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, he performed research
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Achieving high thermoelectric performance through ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity based on phonon localization Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22
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Deflecting lithium dendritic cracks in multi-layered solid electrolytes Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19
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Cool photonics for sustainable agriculture Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17
High temperatures cause thermal stress, impair plant physiology, and reduce crop yield. In a recent publication in Nexus, Wang et al. describe a radiative cooling mulch for soil cooling. This technique increases crop yield in hot climates by alleviating thermal stress on plant roots and reducing soil evaporation, facilitating sustainable agriculture in regions prone to thermal stress.
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Toward photovalorization of waste at scale? Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17
The identification of green strategies for ammonia production is critical, and nitrate reduction has emerged as a promising approach. In a recent issue of Nature Catalysis, Tayyebi et al. reported unprecedented ammonia production rates via bias-free photochemical nitrate reduction coupled with glycerol oxidation.
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A rising era of perovskite-based triple-junction photovoltaics Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17
In a groundbreaking article in Nature, Hou and co-workers recently reported a record-breaking efficiency of 27.1% for triple-junction perovskite–perovskite–silicon photovoltaics. This achievement is attributed to the implementation of cyanate in the ultra-wide-bandgap perovskite (1.93 eV) top cell, which has led to a high open-circuit voltage, uniform iodide–bromide distribution, and minimized micro-strain
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Loss-of-cooling tests to verify inherent safety feature in the world’s first HTR-PM nuclear power plant Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17
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Gigantic triboelectric power generation overcoming acoustic energy barrier using metal-liquid coupling Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16
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Strained heterojunction enables high-performance, fully textured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15
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Hybrid solar energy device for simultaneous electric power generation and molecular solar thermal energy storage Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15
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A polymer acceptor with double-decker configuration enhances molecular packing for high-performance all-polymer solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Han Yu, Yan Wang, Chung Hang Kwok, Rongkun Zhou, Zefan Yao, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Aleksandr Sergeev, Haixia Hu, Yuang Fu, Ho Ming Ng, Li Chen, Di Zhang, Dahui Zhao, Zilong Zheng, Xinhui Lu, Hang Yin, Kam Sing Wong, Harald Ade, Chen Zhang, Zonglong Zhu, He Yan
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A polymer bilayer hole transporting layer architecture for high-efficiency and stable organic solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Junyi Xu, Thomas Heumüller, Vincent M. Le Corre, Anastasiia Barabash, Roberto Félix, Johannes Frisch, Marcus Bär, Christoph J. Brabec
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Stabilizing efficient wide-bandgap perovskite in perovskite-organic tandem solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Xiao Guo, Zhenrong Jia, Shunchang Liu, Renjun Guo, Fangyuan Jiang, Yangwei Shi, Zijing Dong, Ran Luo, Yu-Duan Wang, Zhuojie Shi, Jia Li, Jinxi Chen, Ling Kai Lee, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, David S. Ginger, David J. Paterson, Yi Hou
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Recognition and evaluation in voluntary renewable energy markets Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Eric O’Shaughnessy
Eric O’Shaughnessy is an independent renewable energy research consultant. Dr. O’Shaughnessy has been leading research on the United States voluntary renewable energy market for a decade. The rest of his research portfolio focuses on econometric analysis of distributed energy resource markets. Dr. O’Shaughnessy received his PhD in environment and resources from the Nelson Institute for Environmental
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Some remaining puzzles in hydrogen electrocatalysis mechanisms on platinum surfaces Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Shangqian Zhu, Xuezhao Liu, Xuesi Wang, Qinglan Zhao, Minhua Shao
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Meniscus-modulated blade coating enables high-quality α-phase formamidinium lead triiodide crystals and efficient perovskite minimodules Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Chunjie Huang, Shan Tan, Bingcheng Yu, Yiming Li, Jiangjian Shi, Huijue Wu, Yanhong Luo, Dongmei Li, Qingbo Meng
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Ultralow thermal conductivity and high ZT of Cu2Se-based thermoelectric materials mediated by TiO2−n nanoclusters Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Jincheng Yu, Xiaodong Liu, Haihua Hu, Yilin Jiang, Hua-Lu Zhuang, Hezhang Li, Bin Su, Jing-Wei Li, Zhanran Han, Zhengqin Wang, Lu Chen, Kei Hayashi, Yuzuru Miyazaki, B. Layla Mehdi, Jing-Feng Li
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Overcoming the challenges of assessing the global raw material demand of future energy systems Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Kai Schulze, Felix Kullmann, Jann M. Weinand, Detlef Stolten
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Cost-efficient recycling of organic photovoltaic devices Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Rui Sun, Xinxin Yuan, Xinrong Yang, Yao Wu, Yiming Shao, Xiaohei Wu, Christoph J. Brabec, Jie Min
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Nanochannel electrodes facilitating interfacial transport for PEM water electrolysis Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Jason K. Lee, Finn Babbe, Guanzhi Wang, Andrew W. Tricker, Rangachary Mukundan, Adam Z. Weber, Xiong Peng
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Asymmetric active sites originate from high-entropy metal selenides by joule heating to boost electrocatalytic water oxidation Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Fangren Qian, Lishan Peng, Dengfeng Cao, Wei Jiang, Chengsi Hu, Jiabao Huang, Xinping Zhang, Jiahui Luo, Shuangming Chen, Xiaojun Wu, Li Song, Qingjun Chen
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Electrified inductive heating for sustainable utilization of liquid hydrogenated organics Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Dong Gwon Kang, Kiheon Sung, Hyungseok Yong, Kwanyong Jeong, Myungho Choi, Hyun-Tak Kim, Sunil Kwon, Soo Min Kim, Jin Suk Myung, Dae Woo Kim, Ji Hoon Park, Jeong Woo Han, Sang-Joon Kim
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Domestic-first, climate second? Global consequences of the Inflation Reduction Act Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Bessie Noll, Bjarne Steffen, Tobias S. Schmidt
Bessie Noll is a post doctoral researcher at the Energy and Technology Policy Group at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on the effects of policy intervention on the development of clean energy technologies and transitional outcomes of modern energy systems. She holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a PhD in energy and technology policy from ETH Zurich. Bjarne
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Supramolecular design principles in pseudohalides for high-performance perovskite solar mini modules Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Hochan Song, Hak-Beom Kim, Seong Chan Cho, Jeongjae Lee, Jonghee Yang, Woo Hyeon Jeong, Ji Yeon Won, Hong In Jeong, Jiwoo Yeop, Jin Young Kim, Benjamin J. Lawrie, Mahshid Ahmadi, Bo Ram Lee, Minjin Kim, Seung Ju Choi, Dong Suk Kim, Minjae Lee, Sang Uck Lee, Yimhyun Jo, Hyosung Choi
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Perfluoroalkylsulfonyl ammonium for humidity- resistant printing high-performance phase-pure FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells and modules Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Xining Chen, Fu Yang, Linhao Yuan, Shihao Huang, Hao Gu, Xiaoxiao Wu, Yunxiu Shen, Yujin Chen, Ning Li, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, Christoph J. Brabec, Rui Zhang, Feng Gao, Yaowen Li, Yongfang Li
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Exploring the capabilities and limitations of large language models in the electric energy sector Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Subir Majumder, Lin Dong, Fatemeh Doudi, Yuting Cai, Chao Tian, Dileep Kalathil, Kevin Ding, Anupam A. Thatte, Na Li, Le Xie
Large language models (LLMs) as ChatBots have drawn remarkable attention thanks to their versatile capability in natural language processing as well as in a wide range of tasks. While there has been great enthusiasm toward adopting such foundational model-based artificial intelligence tools in all sectors possible, the capabilities and limitations of such LLMs in improving the operation of the electric
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Regulating spin magnetization for enhanced ammonia production Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Rong Yang, Yuting Wang, Bin Zhang
A highly efficient catalyst is of great practical significance for improving Haber-Bosch (H-B) technology. Recently, in Science, Chorkendorff, Nørskov, and coworkers theoretically and experimentally demonstrated a spin-mediated promotion mechanism of magnetic materials for enhanced ammonia synthesis.
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Omics-enabled understanding of electric aircraft battery electrolytes Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Youngmin Ko, Michael A. Baird, Xinxing Peng, Tofunmi Ogunfunmi, Young-Woon Byeon, Liana M. Klivansky, Haegyeom Kim, Mary C. Scott, John Chen, Anthony J. D’Angelo, Junzheng Chen, Shashank Sripad, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Brett A. Helms
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Design of low-cost non-fused ultranarrow-band-gap acceptors for versatile photovoltaic applications Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Lijiao Ma, Shaoqing Zhang, Jincheng Zhu, Zhihao Chen, Tao Zhang, Xiaotao Hao, Jianhui Hou
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A scalable integrated solar device for the autonomous production of green methane Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Angela R.A. Maragno, Grégory Cwicklinski, Muriel Matheron, Romain Vanoorenberghe, Jean-Marc Borgard, Adina Morozan, Jennifer Fize, Michel Pellat, Christine Cavazza, Vincent Artero, Sophie Charton
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Regulating CO2 adsorption and mass transfer in electrochemical bicarbonate reduction Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Tengfei Li
Electrochemical bicarbonate reduction is a promising technology in carbon capture and conversion schemes. In this issue of Joule, Zhu et al. demonstrated an integrated strategy to facilitate bicarbonate-to-CO conversion by using a CoPc electrocatalyst that has strong CO2 adsorption and a cross-flow design to facilitate mass transfer, and achieved ∼95% Faradaic efficiency at 300 mA/cm2.
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Device engineering of non-fullerene organic photovoltaics with extrapolated operational T80 lifetime over 45,000 h in air Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Jingchao Cheng, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Yiwei Fu, Donghui Li, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang
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Requirements for CO2-free hydrogen production at scale Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Eddie Sun, Amitava Sarkar, Marco Gigantino, Richard Randall, Shaffiq Jaffer, Jimmy Rojas, Shang Zhai, Arun Majumdar
Amitava Sarkar is a corporate research scientist for North America at TotalEnergies and a resident visiting scientist at Stanford University working to develop disruptive, no/low-carbon sustainable technologies to decarbonize the chemical industry. He is active in TotalEnergies’ open innovation effort through research and development collaborations and strategic partnerships with various research institutions
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Advancing electrochemical impedance analysis through innovations in the distribution of relaxation times method Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Adeleke Maradesa, Baptiste Py, Jake Huang, Yang Lu, Pietro Iurilli, Aleksander Mrozinski, Ho Mei Law, Yuhao Wang, Zilong Wang, Jingwei Li, Shengjun Xu, Quentin Meyer, Jiapeng Liu, Claudio Brivio, Alexander Gavrilyuk, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Antonio Bertei, Nicholas J. Williams, Chuan Zhao, Michael Danzer, Mark Zic, Phillip Wu, Ville Yrjänä, Sergei Pereverzyev, Yuhui Chen, André Weber, Sergei V. Kalinin
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is widely used in electrochemistry, energy sciences, biology, and beyond. Analyzing EIS data is crucial, but it often poses challenges because of the numerous possible equivalent circuit models, the need for accurate analytical models, the difficulties of nonlinear regression, and the necessity of managing large datasets within a unified framework. To overcome
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Suppressed deprotonation enables a durable buried interface in tin-lead perovskite for all-perovskite tandem solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Sheng Fu, Nannan Sun, Yeming Xian, Lei Chen, You Li, Chongwen Li, Abasi Abudulimu, Prabodika N. Kaluarachchi, Zixu Huang, Xiaoming Wang, Kshitiz Dolia, David S. Ginger, Michael J. Heben, Randy J. Ellingson, Bin Chen, Edward H. Sargent, Zhaoning Song, Yanfa Yan
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Upper efficiency limit of Sb2Se3 solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Xinwei Wang, Seán R. Kavanagh, David O. Scanlon, Aron Walsh
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General design of high-performance and textured layered thermoelectric materials via stacking of mechanically exfoliated crystals Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Yu-Ke Zhu, Yuxin Sun, Xingyan Dong, Li Yin, Ming Liu, Muchun Guo, Hao Wu, Fushan Li, Zhentao Guo, Xingyue Wang, Kuai Yu, Fengkai Guo, Qian Zhang, Zihang Liu, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui
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Conjugated linker-boosted self-assembled monolayer molecule for inverted perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Geping Qu, Siyuan Cai, Ying Qiao, Deng Wang, Shaokuan Gong, Danish Khan, Yu Wang, Kui Jiang, Qian Chen, Letian Zhang, Yang-Gang Wang, Xihan Chen, Alex K.-Y Jen, Zong-Xiang Xu
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Rapid mapping of electrochemical processes in energy-conversion devices Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Jake D. Huang, Charlie Meisel, Neal P. Sullivan, Andriy Zakutayev, Ryan O’Hayre
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Lost in the dark: A survey of energy poverty from space Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Brian Min, Zachary P. O’Keeffe, Babatunde Abidoye, Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Trevor Monroe, Benjamin P. Stewart, Kimberly Baugh, Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño
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High-efficiency air-bridge thermophotovoltaic cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Bosun Roy-Layinde, Jihun Lim, Claire Arneson, Stephen R. Forrest, Andrej Lenert
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Using NMR spectroscopy to link structure to function at the Li solid electrolyte interphase Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Asya Svirinovsky-Arbeli, Mikkel Juelsholt, Richard May, Yongbeom Kwon, Lauren E. Marbella
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Flexible active pixel-matrix ultrafast thermal camouflage using square-wave temperature Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yiwen Bo, Quan Zhang, Peijia Bai, Heng Cui, Lili Liu, Guangfa Wang, Liteng Wang, Shaoheng Yuan, Zhengxue Zhou, Rujun Ma
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Electrifying heavy-duty truck through battery swapping Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yalun Li, Feiqin Zhu, Liguo Li, Minggao Ouyang
Yalun Li leads a research team in battery fast charging and swapping and vehicle-grid integration systems at Tsinghua University. He earned his PhD in power engineering from Tsinghua University, with his doctoral dissertation awarded by the China Society of Automotive Engineers. He is selected for China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents and serves as a youth editorial member for
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Synergizing radiative cooling and solar power generation Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
In a recent issue of Cell Reports Physical Science, Zhu and colleagues unveil a system that remarkably achieves simultaneous daytime radiative cooling…
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Electrochemical urea synthesis Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Yannik Kohlhaas, Yannick S. Tschauder, Wenzel Plischka, Ulrich Simon, Rüdiger-A. Eichel, Matthias Wessling, Robert Keller
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Substantially boosting performance of triboelectric nanogenerators via a triboelectrification enhancement effect Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Yang Yu, Hengyu Li, Xiaosong Zhang, Qi Gao, Borui Yang, Zhong Lin Wang, Tinghai Cheng
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The evolving long tail at the edge of the grid: Benefits and concerns Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Yael Parag, Shiri Zemah-Shamir, Elad Shaviv, Naama Teschner
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Synergetic substrate and additive engineering for over 30%-efficient perovskite-Si tandem solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Deniz Turkay, Kerem Artuk, Xin-Yu Chin, Daniel A. Jacobs, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Mounir Mensi, Gaëlle Andreatta, Nicolas Blondiaux, Huagui Lai, Fan Fu, Mathieu Boccard, Quentin Jeangros, Christian M. Wolff, Christophe Ballif
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High-entropy thermoelectric materials Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Qiqi Tang, Binbin Jiang, Keli Wang, Wu Wang, Baohai Jia, Tianpeng Ding, Zhenlong Huang, Yuan Lin, Jiaqing He
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Ultrafine SnO2 colloids with enhanced interface quality for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Min Jae Paik, Yu Young Kim, Jongbeom Kim, Jaewang Park, Sang Il Seok
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In situ exsolved CoFe alloy nanoparticles for stable anodic methane reforming in solid oxide electrolysis cells Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Yige Guo, Shuo Wang, Rongtan Li, Jingcheng Yu, Xiaomin Zhang, Mingrun Li, Xusheng Zheng, Junfa Zhu, Yuefeng Song, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao
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Hierarchical design enables sufficient activated CO2 for efficient electrolysis of bicarbonate to CO Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Mengxin Shen, Liyao Ji, Dongfang Cheng, Ziwei Wang, Qinwen Xue, Shijia Feng, Yao Luo, Shuying Chen, Jiahao Wang, Hongzhi Zheng, Xiaojun Wang, Philippe Sautet, Jia Zhu
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Realizing high-energy and long-life Li/SPAN batteries Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 An L. Phan, Phung M.L. Le, Chunsheng Wang
Sulfurized polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) is emerging as a promising cathode for high-energy Li metal batteries. The transition-metal-free nature, high capacity, good sustainability, and low cost serve as competitive advantages of SPAN over conventional layered-oxide counterparts. The unique structure of SPAN with abundant covalent C–S and N–S bonds enables it to achieve high electrochemical performance
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Room-temperature-processed perovskite solar cells surpassing 24% efficiency Joule (IF 38.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Ahra Yi, Sangmin Chae, Hoang Mai Luong, Sung Hun Lee, Hanbin Lee, Haeun Yoon, Do-Hyung Kim, Hyo Jung Kim, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen