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Upscaling high-areal-capacity battery electrodes

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01720-0

Jung-Hui Kim, Nag-Young Kim, Zhengyu Ju, Young-Kuk Hong, Kyu-Dong Kang, Jung-Hyun Pang, Seok-Ju Lee, Seong-Seok Chae, Moon-Soo Park, Je-Young Kim, Guihua Yu, Sang-Young Lee

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Renewable energy cooperatives

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01728-6

Silvana Lakeman

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Cooling vertical surfaces

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01727-7

Giulia Tregnago

{"title":"Cooling vertical surfaces","authors":"Giulia Tregnago","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01727-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01727-7","url":null,"abstract":"Radiative cooling is a promising passive technology that dissipates heat throughout the Earth’s atmosphere and into space without electrical or mechanical input. It therefore offers an appealing solution to the rising demand for cooling in buildings. Radiative coolers can achieve temperatures below ambient air when their surface faces the sky, such as on rooftops. Yet, reaching sub-ambient temperatures on vertical surfaces, which make up most external building surfaces, is challenging as radiative coolers with conventional designs tend to absorb heat from the ground and nearby buildings, failing to cool effectively. Now, Andrea Alu, Shanhui Fan, Wei Li and colleagues across China and the USA have optimized the design of these coolers, achieving a temperature 2.5 °C below ambient air for a cooler tested outdoors at noon.The researchers employ a sawtooth design: the flat surface of each ‘tooth’ faces the sky while the slanted surface faces the ground. These two surfaces are made of different materials to control the angular and spectral emission of radiation. The slanted surface reflects radiation over the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ranges, including thermal radiation coming from the ground and adjacent buildings. The horizontal surface selectively emits in the mid-infrared wavelength range, maximizing heat dissipation into space. The research team shows that their system outperforms conventional radiative coolers and commercial white paint. This demonstration of daytime radiative cooling below ambient air temperature on vertical surfaces extends the practical potential of the technology for real-world applications.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143495302","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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Multi-country evidence on societal factors to include in energy transition modelling

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01719-7

Vivien Fisch-Romito, Marc Jaxa-Rozen, Xin Wen, Evelina Trutnevyte

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Faster deployment of renewables stabilizes electricity prices in Europe

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01715-x

Daniel Navia Simon, Laura Diaz Anadon

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Demand-side policies can significantly reduce emissions from energy use in buildings and transport

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01721-z

Rik van Heerden, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Vassilis Daioglou, Thomas Le Gallic, Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Alice Di Bella, Francesco Pietro Colelli, Johannes Emmerling, Panagiotis Fragkos, Robin Hasse, Johanna Hoppe, Paul Kishimoto, Florian Leblanc, Julien Lefèvre, Gunnar Luderer, Giacomo Marangoni, Alessio Mastrucci, Hazel Pettifor, Robert Pietzcker, Pedro Rochedo, Bas van Ruijven, Roberto Schaeffer, Charlie Wilson, Sonia Yeh, Eleftheria Zisarou, Detlef van Vuuren

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High-energy, long-life Ni-rich cathode materials with columnar structures for all-solid-state batteries

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01726-8

Nam-Yung Park, Han-Uk Lee, Tae-Yeon Yu, In-Su Lee, Hun Kim, Sung-Min Park, Hun-Gi Jung, Yun-Chae Jung, Yang-Kook Sun

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Asymmetric ether solvents for high-rate lithium metal batteries

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01716-w

Il Rok Choi, Yuelang Chen, Aditya Shah, Jacob Florian, Chad Serrao, John Holoubek, Hao Lyu, Elizabeth Zhang, Jun Ho Lee, Yangju Lin, Sang Cheol Kim, Hyunchang Park, Pu Zhang, Junyoung Lee, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, Zhenan Bao

{"title":"Asymmetric ether solvents for high-rate lithium metal batteries","authors":"Il Rok Choi, Yuelang Chen, Aditya Shah, Jacob Florian, Chad Serrao, John Holoubek, Hao Lyu, Elizabeth Zhang, Jun Ho Lee, Yangju Lin, Sang Cheol Kim, Hyunchang Park, Pu Zhang, Junyoung Lee, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, Zhenan Bao","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01716-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01716-w","url":null,"abstract":"Recent electrolyte solvent design based on weakening lithium-ion solvation have shown promise in enhancing cycling performance of Li-metal batteries. However, they often face slow redox kinetics and poor cycling reversibility at high rate. Here we report using asymmetric solvent molecules substantially accelerates Li redox kinetics. Asymmetric ethers (1-ethoxy-2-methoxyethane, 1-methoxy-2-propoxyethane) showed higher exchange current densities and enhanced high-rate Li0 plating/stripping reversibility compared to symmetric ethers. Adjusting fluorination levels further improved oxidative stability and Li0 reversibility. The asymmetric 1-(2,2,2-trifluoro)-ethoxy-2-methoxyethane, with 2 M lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, exhibited high exchange current density, oxidative stability, compact solid–electrolyte interphase (~10 nm). This electrolyte exhibited superior performance among state-of-the-art electrolytes, enabling over 220 cycles in high-rate Li (50 μm)||LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC811, 4.9 mAh cm−2) cells and for the first time over 600 cycles in anode-free Cu | |Ni95 pouch cells (200 mAh) under electric vertical take-off and landing cycling protocols. Our findings on asymmetric molecular design strategy points to a new pathway towards achieving fast redox kinetics for high-power Li-metal batteries.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418056","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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On par with lithium-ion

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01718-8

Björn Nykvist

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Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01714-y

Sayan Kar, Dongseok Kim, Ariffin Bin Mohamad Annuar, Bidyut Bikash Sarma, Michael Stanton, Erwin Lam, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Suvendu Karak, Heather F. Greer, Erwin Reisner

{"title":"Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow","authors":"Sayan Kar, Dongseok Kim, Ariffin Bin Mohamad Annuar, Bidyut Bikash Sarma, Michael Stanton, Erwin Lam, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Suvendu Karak, Heather F. Greer, Erwin Reisner","doi":"10.1038/s41560-025-01714-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01714-y","url":null,"abstract":"Direct air capture is an emerging technology to decrease atmospheric CO2 levels, but it is currently costly and the long-term consequences of CO2 storage are uncertain. An alternative approach is to utilize atmospheric CO2 on-site to produce value-added renewable fuels, but current CO2 utilization technologies predominantly require a concentrated CO2 feed or high temperature. Here we report a gas-phase dual-bed direct air carbon capture and utilization flow reactor that produces syngas (CO + H2) through on-site utilization of air-captured CO2 using light without requiring high temperature or pressure. The reactor consists of a bed of solid silica-amine adsorbent to capture aerobic CO2 and produce CO2-free air; concentrated light is used to release the captured CO2 and convert it to syngas over a bed of a silica/alumina-titania-cobalt bis(terpyridine) molecular–semiconductor photocatalyst. We use the oxidation of depolymerized poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastics as the counter-reaction. We envision this technology to operate in a diurnal fashion where CO2 is captured during night-time and converted to syngas under concentrated sunlight during the day.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143401309","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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