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Equally high efficiencies of organic solar cells processed from different solvents reveal key factors for morphology control

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01678-5

Rui Zhang, Haiyang Chen, Tonghui Wang, Libor Kobera, Lilin He, Yuting Huang, Junyuan Ding, Ben Zhang, Azzaya Khasbaatar, Sadisha Nanayakkara, Jialei Zheng, Weijie Chen, Ying Diao, Sabina Abbrent, Jiri Brus, Aidan H. Coffey, Chenhui Zhu, Heng Liu, Xinhui Lu, Qing Jiang, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Jean-Luc Brédas, Yongfang Li, Yaowen Li, Feng Gao

{"title":"Equally high efficiencies of organic solar cells processed from different solvents reveal key factors for morphology control","authors":"Rui Zhang, Haiyang Chen, Tonghui Wang, Libor Kobera, Lilin He, Yuting Huang, Junyuan Ding, Ben Zhang, Azzaya Khasbaatar, Sadisha Nanayakkara, Jialei Zheng, Weijie Chen, Ying Diao, Sabina Abbrent, Jiri Brus, Aidan H. Coffey, Chenhui Zhu, Heng Liu, Xinhui Lu, Qing Jiang, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Jean-Luc Brédas, Yongfang Li, Yaowen Li, Feng Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01678-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01678-5","url":null,"abstract":"The power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) is exceeding 20%, an advance in which morphology optimization has played a significant role. It is generally accepted that the processing solvent (or solvent mixture) can help optimize morphology, impacting the OSC efficiency. Here we develop OSCs that show strong tolerance to a range of processing solvents, with all devices delivering high power conversion efficiencies around 19%. By investigating the solution states, the film formation dynamics and the characteristics of the processed films both experimentally and computationally, we identify the key factors that control morphology, that is, the interactions between the side chains of the acceptor materials and the solvent as well as the interactions between the donor and acceptor materials. Our work provides new understanding on the long-standing question of morphology control and effective guides to design OSC materials towards practical applications, where green solvents are required for large-scale processing.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142763691","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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Electrochemical pumps based on ion-pair membranes for separation of hydrogen from low-concentration mixtures

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01669-6

Manjeet Chhetri, Daniel Philip Leonard, Sandip Maurya, Prashant Sharan, Youngkwang Kim, Alisa Kozhushner, Lior Elbaz, Nasser Ghorbani, Mehdi Rafiee, Cortney Kreller, Yu Seung Kim

{"title":"Electrochemical pumps based on ion-pair membranes for separation of hydrogen from low-concentration mixtures","authors":"Manjeet Chhetri, Daniel Philip Leonard, Sandip Maurya, Prashant Sharan, Youngkwang Kim, Alisa Kozhushner, Lior Elbaz, Nasser Ghorbani, Mehdi Rafiee, Cortney Kreller, Yu Seung Kim","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01669-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01669-6","url":null,"abstract":"Producing pure, compressed hydrogen from gas mixtures is a crucial, but expensive, aspect of hydrogen distribution. Electrochemical hydrogen pumps offer a promising energy-efficient solution, but struggle with gas mixtures containing less than 20% hydrogen. Here we show that electrochemical hydrogen pumps equipped with phosphate-coordinated quaternary ammonium ion-pair polymer membranes can overcome this challenge. By using a protonated phosphonic acid ionomer and selective cathode humidification, mass transport of the device is enhanced, boosting hydrogen production from low-concentration hydrogen gas mixtures. A tandem ion-pair electrochemical hydrogen pump system achieves high-purity hydrogen (>99.999%) from a 10% hydrogen–methane mixture with nearly 100% faradaic efficiency and hydrogen recovery. A techno-economic analysis reveals that electrochemical hydrogen pumps can reduce hydrogen delivery costs by up to 95% and energy consumption by up to 65% by allowing the use of existing natural gas pipelines, compared to traditional pressure swing adsorption and mechanical compression techniques. Electrochemical pumps can effectively purify and compress hydrogen for subsequent use in energy and industrial applications but struggle with low hydrogen concentrations. Here the authors present an electrochemical pump based on an ion-pair membrane that can produce high-purity hydrogen from a 10% blend in methane.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 12","pages":"1517-1528"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142760035","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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Breaking the molecular symmetricity of sulfonimide anions for high-performance lithium metal batteries under extreme cycling conditions 打破磺酰亚胺阴离子的分子对称性，实现极端循环条件下的高性能锂金属电池

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01679-4

Yang Lu, Qingbin Cao, Weili Zhang, Tianyou Zeng, Yu Ou, Shuaishuai Yan, Hao Liu, Xuan Song, Haiyu Zhou, Wenhui Hou, Pan Zhou, Nan Hu, Qingqing Feng, Yong Li, Kai Liu

{"title":"Breaking the molecular symmetricity of sulfonimide anions for high-performance lithium metal batteries under extreme cycling conditions","authors":"Yang Lu, Qingbin Cao, Weili Zhang, Tianyou Zeng, Yu Ou, Shuaishuai Yan, Hao Liu, Xuan Song, Haiyu Zhou, Wenhui Hou, Pan Zhou, Nan Hu, Qingqing Feng, Yong Li, Kai Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01679-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01679-4","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium metal batteries operating under extreme conditions are limited by the sluggish desolvation process and poor stability of the electrode–electrolyte interphase. However, rational interphase design is hindered by the ill-defined understanding of interphasial chemistry at the molecular level. Here we design and synthesize a series of sulfoximide salts, lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfinyl)imide (LiBSTFSI) and lithium (trifluoromethanesulfinyl)(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiSTFSI), that possess distinctive oxidizability. Their molecular structure and interphasial chemistry were correlated. An anionic electro-polymerization was induced by the asymmetric LiSTFSI to establish a bilayer catholde–electrolyte interphase (CEI) with LiF dominated inner covered by negative-charged inorganic polymers. LiSTFSI-derived CEI enables superior mechanical stability and accelerated Li+ desolvation that contribute to the stable cycling and superior energy and power densities under ultra-high rate and ultra-low temperature conditions. Industrial pouch cells of 474 Wh kg−1 achieved extreme power density of 5,080 W kg−1 at 30 °C and exceptional low-temperature energy and power densities at −20 °C (382 Wh kg−1, 3,590 W kg−1) and −40 °C (321 Wh kg−1, 1,517 W kg−1).","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"194 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142735608","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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A hybrid modelling approach to compare chemical separation technologies in terms of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions 从能耗和二氧化碳排放角度比较化学分离技术的混合建模方法

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01668-7

Gergo Ignacz, Aron K. Beke, Viktor Toth, Gyorgy Szekely

{"title":"A hybrid modelling approach to compare chemical separation technologies in terms of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions","authors":"Gergo Ignacz, Aron K. Beke, Viktor Toth, Gyorgy Szekely","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01668-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01668-7","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate energy system modelling of chemical separations is a critical component of technology selection to minimize operating costs, energy consumption and emissions. Here we report a hybrid modelling approach based on data-driven and mechanistic models to holistically compare chemical separation performance. Our model can be used to select the most suitable technology for a given chemical separation, such as membrane separation, evaporation, extraction or hybrid configurations, by training a machine learning model to predict solute rejection using an open-access membrane dataset. We estimated an average 40% reduction in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions for industrially relevant separations using our methodology. We predicted and analysed 7.1 million solute rejections across several industrial sectors. Pharmaceutical purification could realize carbon dioxide emissions reductions of up to 90% by selecting the most efficient technology. We mapped the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and the reduction in operating costs globally, establishing parameter thresholds to facilitate corporate and governmental decision-making.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142718300","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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Topological semimetals with intrinsic chirality as spin-controlling electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction 具有本征手性的拓扑半金属作为氧进化反应的自旋控制电催化剂

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01674-9

Xia Wang, Qun Yang, Sukriti Singh, Horst Borrmann, Vicky Hasse, Changjiang Yi, Yongkang Li, Marcus Schmidt, Xiaodong Li, Gerhard H. Fecher, Dong Zhou, Binghai Yan, Claudia Felser

{"title":"Topological semimetals with intrinsic chirality as spin-controlling electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction","authors":"Xia Wang, Qun Yang, Sukriti Singh, Horst Borrmann, Vicky Hasse, Changjiang Yi, Yongkang Li, Marcus Schmidt, Xiaodong Li, Gerhard H. Fecher, Dong Zhou, Binghai Yan, Claudia Felser","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01674-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01674-9","url":null,"abstract":"Electrocatalytic water splitting is a promising approach for clean hydrogen production, but the process is hindered by the sluggish kinetics of the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) owing to the spin-dependent electron transfer process. Efforts to control spin through chirality and magnetization have shown potential in enhancing OER performance. Here we harnessed the potential of topological chiral semimetals (RhSi, RhSn and RhBiS) and their spin-polarized Fermi surfaces to promote the spin-dependent electron transfer in the OER, addressing the traditional volcano-plot limitations. We show that OER activities follow the trend RhSi < RhSn < RhBiS, corresponding to the increasing extent of spin–orbit coupling (SOC). The chiral single crystals outperform achiral counterparts (RhTe2, RhTe and RuO2) in alkaline electrolyte, with RhBiS exhibiting a specific activity two orders of magnitude higher than RuO2. Our work reveals the pivotal roles of chirality and SOC in spin-dependent catalysis, facilitating the design of ultra-efficient chiral catalysts.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696683","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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Capacity estimation of home storage systems using field data 利用现场数据估算家庭存储系统的容量

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01662-z

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Scalable fabrication of wide-bandgap perovskites using green solvents for tandem solar cells 利用绿色溶剂为串联太阳能电池规模化制造宽带隙过氧化物

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01672-x

Chenyang Duan, Han Gao, Ke Xiao, Vishal Yeddu, Bo Wang, Renxing Lin, Hongfei Sun, Pu Wu, Yameen Ahmed, Anh Dinh Bui, Xuntian Zheng, Yurui Wang, Jin Wen, Yinke Wang, Wennan Ou, Chenshuaiyu Liu, Yuhong Zhang, Hieu Nguyen, Haowen Luo, Ludong Li, Ye Liu, Xin Luo, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Hairen Tan

{"title":"Scalable fabrication of wide-bandgap perovskites using green solvents for tandem solar cells","authors":"Chenyang Duan, Han Gao, Ke Xiao, Vishal Yeddu, Bo Wang, Renxing Lin, Hongfei Sun, Pu Wu, Yameen Ahmed, Anh Dinh Bui, Xuntian Zheng, Yurui Wang, Jin Wen, Yinke Wang, Wennan Ou, Chenshuaiyu Liu, Yuhong Zhang, Hieu Nguyen, Haowen Luo, Ludong Li, Ye Liu, Xin Luo, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Hairen Tan","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01672-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01672-x","url":null,"abstract":"Commercializing perovskite-based tandems necessitates environmentally friendly solvents for scalable fabrication of efficient wide-bandgap (WBG) (1.65–1.80 eV) perovskites. However, the green solvents developed for formamidinium lead iodide-based ~1.50-eV-bandgap perovskites are unsuitable for WBG perovskites due to the low solubility of caesium and bromide salts, leading to reliance on toxic N,N-dimethylformamide solvent. Here we present a green solvent system comprising dimethyl sulfoxide and acetonitrile to effectively dissolve the named salts, with the addition of ethyl alcohol to prevent precursor degradation and to extend the solution processing window. Using this green solvent mixture, we achieve blade-coated WBG perovskite solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 19.6% (1.78 eV) and 21.5% (1.68 eV). We then demonstrate 20.25-cm2 all-perovskite tandem solar modules with a power conversion efficiency of 23.8%. Furthermore, we achieved WBG perovskites deposited in ambient air and narrow-bandgap perovskites fabricated using the same green solvents, which promotes the viability of environmentally friendly fabrication.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637106","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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Polyanions stabilize anion redox 多阴离子可稳定阴离子氧化还原

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01664-x

Jagjit Nanda

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Homogeneous coverage of the low-dimensional perovskite passivation layer for formamidinium–caesium perovskite solar modules 用于甲脒铯包晶太阳能模块的低维包晶石钝化层的均匀覆盖率

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01667-8

Jing Li, Chengkai Jin, Ruixuan Jiang, Jie Su, Ting Tian, Chunyang Yin, Jiashen Meng, Zongkui Kou, Sai Bai, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Fuzhi Huang, Liqiang Mai, Yi-Bing Cheng, Tongle Bu

{"title":"Homogeneous coverage of the low-dimensional perovskite passivation layer for formamidinium–caesium perovskite solar modules","authors":"Jing Li, Chengkai Jin, Ruixuan Jiang, Jie Su, Ting Tian, Chunyang Yin, Jiashen Meng, Zongkui Kou, Sai Bai, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Fuzhi Huang, Liqiang Mai, Yi-Bing Cheng, Tongle Bu","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01667-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01667-8","url":null,"abstract":"The formation of a homogeneous passivation layer based on phase-pure two-dimensional (2D) perovskites is a challenge for perovskite solar cells, especially when upscaling the devices to modules. Here we reveal a chain-length-dependent and halide-related phase separation problem of 2D perovskite growing on top of three-dimensional perovskites. We demonstrate that a homogeneous 2D perovskite passivation layer can be formed upon treatment of the perovskite layer with formamidinium bromide in long-chain ( >10) alkylamine ligand salts. We achieve champion active-area efficiencies of 25.61%, 24.62% and 23.60% for antisolvent-free processed small- (0.14 cm2) and large-size (1.04 cm2) devices and mini-modules (13.44 cm2), respectively. This passivation strategy is compatible with printing technology, enabling champion aperture-area efficiencies of 18.90% and 17.59% for fully slot-die printed large solar modules with areas of 310 cm2 and 802 cm2, respectively, demonstrating the feasibility of the upscaling manufacturing. Achieving uniform coverage of interfacial layers in perovskite solar cells is challenging, especially over large areas. Li et al. present design guidelines to fabricate these layers with uniform morphology, suppressed defects and improved charge transport.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 12","pages":"1540-1550"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142599772","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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A wind of change in sustainability 可持续发展的变革之风

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Nature Energy Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01666-9

Yi Guo, Xing-Yuan Miao

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