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Heat pumps can help alleviate residential energy insecurity in the USA 热泵可以帮助缓解美国住宅的能源不安全

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01840-7

Xiaofeng Ye, Yueming Lucy Qiu, Destenie Nock, Bo Xing

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The comfort rebound from heat pumps and impact on household cooling behaviour and energy security 热泵带来的舒适反弹以及对家庭制冷行为和能源安全的影响

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01845-2

Xiaofeng Ye, Yueming Lucy Qiu, Destenie Nock, Bo Xing

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Guiding lithium through thick cathodes 引导锂通过厚阴极

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01873-y

Xinru Li

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Performance seasonality 性能的季节性

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01875-w

Giulia Tregnago

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Contested environmental views 有争议的环境观点

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01874-x

Silvana Lakeman

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A broader view of energy 更广阔的能源视野

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01855-0

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Solution-processed kesterite solar module with 10.1% certified efficiency 溶液处理的kesterite太阳能组件具有10.1%的认证效率

IF 56.7 1区材料科学

Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01860-3

Chunxu Xiang, Mingjun Yuan, Chuan’an Ding, Yuanyuan Zheng, Yize Li, Xiaole Hu, Jie Zhang, Xinyu Li, Chengfeng Ma, Shaoying Wang, Weibo Yan, Chunlei Yang, Wei Huang, Hao Xin

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Affinity-driven electrolyte design 亲和力驱动的电解液设计

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01859-w

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Alternative divertor configurations improve fusion power exhaust control 可选的导流器配置改进了核聚变动力排气控制

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01825-6

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Tandem amine scrubbing and CO2 electrolysis via direct piperazine carbamate reduction 直接氨基甲酸哌嗪还原串联胺洗涤和CO2电解

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01869-8

Peng Li, Yu Mao, Heejong Shin, Qi Yang, Xuan Cheng, Yitong Li, Kangkang Li, Hai Yu, Roger Mulder, Wei Kong Pang, Huanyu Jin, Yong Zhao, Zhi Zheng, Emily Finch, Kyle Hearn, Baohua Jia, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Ziyun Wang, Tianyi Ma

{"title":"Tandem amine scrubbing and CO2 electrolysis via direct piperazine carbamate reduction","authors":"Peng Li, Yu Mao, Heejong Shin, Qi Yang, Xuan Cheng, Yitong Li, Kangkang Li, Hai Yu, Roger Mulder, Wei Kong Pang, Huanyu Jin, Yong Zhao, Zhi Zheng, Emily Finch, Kyle Hearn, Baohua Jia, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Ziyun Wang, Tianyi Ma","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01869-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01869-8","url":null,"abstract":"Transforming CO2 into valuable products presents a promising route for reducing emissions across various industry sectors. However, conventional methods, including sequential CO2 electrolysis or reverse water–gas shift reaction, depend on energy-intensive CO2 purification; while emerging reactive CO2 capture strategies still face challenges in designing optimal system components that enable efficient electrochemical regeneration without compromising catalytic performance. Here we systematically screen a broad library of amine-based absorbents to establish a design rationale for tandem amine scrubbing and CO2 electrolysis. We identify piperazine as an optimal capture medium and show that its carbamate form can be directly reduced using a nickel single-atom catalyst. This charge-neutral intermediate facilitates spontaneous adsorption, rapid transport and efficient C–N bond cleavage, enabling stable carbon monoxide production alongside in situ amine regeneration. The process achieves an energy efficiency of ~48.8 GJ per tonne CO, offering a scalable and energy efficient pathway towards carbon-neutral chemical feedstocks.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032042","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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