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Deployment strategies for Li-rich cathode materials in batteries 电池中富锂正极材料的部署策略

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01777-x

Mengting Zheng, Xinxin Zhu, Hongfei Zheng, Zheng Bo, Jun Lu

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The potential for differentiated vehicle segment tariffs 不同车型关税的可能性

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01798-6

Ming Liu, Han Hao, Xin Sun, Yong Geng, David Reiner, Klaus Hubacek, Xiaobo Qu, Jiaqi Lu, Fengqi You, Fuquan Zhao

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Misinformation among owners and non-owners 业主和非业主之间的错误信息

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01796-8

Nathanael Johnson

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Present status of and future opportunities for all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics 全钙钛矿串联光伏的现状与未来机遇

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01782-0

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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Local energy initiatives 本地能源措施

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01808-7

Silvana Lakeman

{"title":"Local energy initiatives","authors":"Silvana Lakeman","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01808-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01808-7","url":null,"abstract":"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 Uppsala University and Nordregio in Sweden explore ways in which energy policies at both the Member State and European Union levels facilitate or hinder local energy initiatives.Focusing on three local energy projects in Sweden, as well as one from Denmark, the research team employ an exploratory, case study approach. Semi-structured interviews and interactive workshops with a range of project participants and owners, political actors, advisors and partners are conducted to consider both perceptions of local energy initiative ownership, as well as of EU policies and their impact on local project development. The team find that shifts in EU policies that support increased energy citizenship have created a positive environment for local initiative growth. However, broader energy policies, taxes and regulations tend to overlook the importance of spatial context and may therefore present unintended roadblocks to regionally critical energy projects. Outcomes from this work highlight the importance of further embedding local-level initiatives into the full energy policy development process.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"603 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144311942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Stacked for transparency 堆叠透明

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01809-6

Giulia Tregnago

{"title":"Stacked for transparency","authors":"Giulia Tregnago","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01809-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01809-6","url":null,"abstract":"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: materials with strong absorption of visible light (particularly electron-donor polymers) afford higher power conversion efficiency. This trade-off makes improving light utilization efficiency challenging. Now, Haiyang Chen, Juan Zhu, Yaowen Li, and colleagues at Soochow University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences achieve a light utilization efficiency exceeding 6% by enhancing charge transport efficiency and reducing visible absorption through engineering of the electron-donor polymer’s stacking behaviour.The researchers introduce an additive that forms hydrogen bonds with the electron-donor polymer, suppressing its aggregation and favouring a head-to-tail slipped (or J-type) stacking configuration. This stacking mode is characterized by a longer intermolecular conjugation length, which both reduces the absorption of visible light (improving transparency) and facilitates charge transport (enhancing power conversion efficiency). Furthermore, the additive increases the crystallinity of the electron-acceptor molecule, increasing its absorption of near-infrared light and further improving power conversion efficiency. With the inclusion of an optical interference layer, the research team achieve a power conversion efficiency of 13.31% and average visible transmittance of 45.23%, resulting in a light utilization efficiency of 6.02%. To address practical viability, the researchers explore the compatibility of their approach to large-area solar modules and perform preliminary plant growth experiments.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reframing how we talk about ‘energy poverty’ 重新定义我们谈论“能源贫困”的方式

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01794-w

Stefan Bouzarovski, Karla G. Cedano-Villavicencio, Laurence L. Delina, Mari Martiskainen, Tony G. Reames, Neil Simcock

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Unveiling zinc anode corrosion 揭示锌阳极腐蚀

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01810-z

Xinru Li

{"title":"Unveiling zinc anode corrosion","authors":"Xinru Li","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01810-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01810-z","url":null,"abstract":"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 of Warwick, the University of Oxford and Central South University reveal the mechanisms behind this subtle degradation. Using in situ electrochemical liquid cell transmission electron microscopy, they directly visualize the corrosion processes of zinc metal anodes in the most commonly used aqueous electrolytes — those based on mildly acidic zinc sulfate.Their study shows that corrosion occurs in two stages: first, the zinc metal dissolves into the electrolyte, releasing hydrogen gas and increasing the local pH. This pH change results in the formation of basic, insoluble zinc hydroxysulfate byproducts with porous and loose structures, which gradually deplete zinc and degrade battery performance. Surprisingly, using excess zinc at the anode — previously considered a safe buffer against loss — actually exacerbates the problem by accelerating pH shifts and corrosion. In contrast, a simple electrolyte additive, zinc acetate, helps stabilize the pH and significantly reduces these losses. This work highlights a subtle but important issue: zinc anodes corrode even when the battery is not in use, compromising shelf life, safety, and performance. The findings underscore the importance of carefully balancing zinc content and electrolyte composition to improve battery longevity. As zinc batteries move closer to real-world deployment, understanding and controlling this hidden degradation process may prove key to their long-term success.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"153 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Durability research is pivotal for perovskite photovoltaics 耐久性研究是钙钛矿光伏电池的关键

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01786-w

Timothy J Silverman, Michael G. Deceglie, Ingrid Repins, Michael Owen-Bellini, Joseph J. Berry, Joshua S. Stein, Laura T. Schelhas

{"title":"Durability research is pivotal for perovskite photovoltaics","authors":"Timothy J Silverman, Michael G. Deceglie, Ingrid Repins, Michael Owen-Bellini, Joseph J. Berry, Joshua S. Stein, Laura T. Schelhas","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01786-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01786-w","url":null,"abstract":"Metal halide perovskite solar cells have shown promising power conversion efficiencies, but commercialization requires that decent durability is also demonstrated. Under normal operation, solar cells are subject to a complex combination of stressors, such as visible light, ultraviolet light, heat, humidity, mechanical stress and electric potential, which complicates the understanding of failure mechanisms. Existing stress tests do not act as a time machine. In new materials systems such as perovskite photovoltaics, the tests have no known relationship to field service. In this Perspective we recommend following a durability learning cycle that interleaves photovoltaic module engineering with field testing; accelerated testing; and preconditioning and performance engineering. We advocate for field testing to demonstrate real-world performance and identify field-relevant failure modes, and urge the community to develop accelerated and qualification tests that account for device metastability, variations in material composition and different/various processing methods. These practices are more difficult, but more important, than the simple pursuit of higher initial efficiencies.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144278775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The high cost of importing green hydrogen from Africa to Europe 从非洲向欧洲进口绿色氢的高成本

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01775-z

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