Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01664-x
Jagjit Nanda
{"title":"Polyanions stabilize anion redox","authors":"Jagjit Nanda","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01664-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01664-x","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, lithium-ion battery cathodes face a trade-off between the energy density afforded by high-voltage anion reduction−oxidation and long-term stability. Now, incorporating polyanion motifs into a disordered oxide crystal structure is shown to stabilize the oxygen sublattice, improving capacity retention at high energy densities.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 12","pages":"1457-1458"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637124","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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-11-12DOI: 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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01666-9
Yi Guo, Xing-Yuan Miao
{"title":"A wind of change in sustainability","authors":"Yi Guo, Xing-Yuan Miao","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01666-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01666-9","url":null,"abstract":"Fibre-reinforced epoxy-amine resins are common materials for wind turbine blades, yet they are challenging to recycle. Now, researchers formulate an alternative resin using biomass-derived polyester with easier-to-break covalent linkages, demonstrating the industrial manufacturability and recyclability of the resin with a nine-metre blade prototype.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 12","pages":"1455-1456"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142580267","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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01665-w
Max Vanatta, William R. Stewart, Michael T. Craig
{"title":"The role of policy and module manufacturing learning in industrial decarbonization by small modular reactors","authors":"Max Vanatta, William R. Stewart, Michael T. Craig","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01665-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01665-w","url":null,"abstract":"Small modular reactors (SMRs) offer a unique solution to the challenge of decarbonizing mid- and high-temperature industrial processes. Here we develop deployment pathways for four SMR designs displacing natural gas in industrial heat processes at 925 facilities across the United States under diverse policy and factory or onsite learning conditions. We find that widespread SMR deployment in industry requires gas prices above US$6 per metric million British thermal unit, low capital cost over-runs and/or aggressive carbon taxes. At gas prices of US$6–10 per metric million British thermal unit, 7–55 gigawatt-thermal (GWt) of SMRs could be economically deployed by 2050, reducing annual emissions by up to 59 Mt of CO2-equivalent. Of this deployment, 2–24 GWt rely on module manufacturing learning within a factory. Widespread deployment potential hinges on avoiding substantial cost escalation for early investments. Policy levers such as direct subsidies are not effective at incentivizing sustainable deployment, but aggressive carbon taxes and investment tax credits provide effective support for SMR success. Nuclear small modular reactors could help decarbonize industrial heat processes in the United States, but widespread deployment (of up to a thousand reactors) hinges on factory learning, extended tax credits and avoiding cost escalations.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 1","pages":"77-89"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574597","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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01660-1
Kyle Frohna, Cullen Chosy, Amran Al-Ashouri, Florian Scheler, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Milos Dubajic, Julia E. Parker, Jessica M. Walker, Lea Zimmermann, Thomas A. Selby, Yang Lu, Bart Roose, Steve Albrecht, Miguel Anaya, Samuel D. Stranks
{"title":"The impact of interfacial quality and nanoscale performance disorder on the stability of alloyed perovskite solar cells","authors":"Kyle Frohna, Cullen Chosy, Amran Al-Ashouri, Florian Scheler, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Milos Dubajic, Julia E. Parker, Jessica M. Walker, Lea Zimmermann, Thomas A. Selby, Yang Lu, Bart Roose, Steve Albrecht, Miguel Anaya, Samuel D. Stranks","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01660-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01660-1","url":null,"abstract":"Microscopy provides a proxy for assessing the operation of perovskite solar cells, yet most works in the literature have focused on bare perovskite thin films, missing charge transport and recombination losses present in full devices. Here we demonstrate a multimodal operando microscopy toolkit to measure and spatially correlate nanoscale charge transport losses, recombination losses and chemical composition. By applying this toolkit to the same scan areas of state-of-the-art, alloyed perovskite cells before and after extended operation, we show that devices with the highest macroscopic performance have the lowest initial performance spatial heterogeneity—a crucial link that is missed in conventional microscopy. We show that engineering stable interfaces is critical to achieving robust devices. Once the interfaces are stabilized, we show that compositional engineering to homogenize charge extraction and to minimize variations in local power conversion efficiency is critical to improve performance and stability. We find that in our device space, perovskites can tolerate spatial disorder in chemistry, but not charge extraction. Conventional microscopy is unable to correlate nanoscale properties of metal halide perovskites with the performance of solar cells. Frohna et al. present a multimodal operando microscopy toolkit as a diagnostic tool to address the issue.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"10 1","pages":"66-76"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01660-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01661-0
Julie Michelle Klinger, Gwendolyn K. Murphy, Coryn Wolk
{"title":"A nationally determined contribution framework for energy transition minerals","authors":"Julie Michelle Klinger, Gwendolyn K. Murphy, Coryn Wolk","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01661-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01661-0","url":null,"abstract":"A framework for governments to define their domestic energy transition mineral needs, sources, and contributions to the global energy transition can improve domestic policies around the world and enable greater national and global coordination to avoid supply crises and resource conflicts.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 12","pages":"1452-1454"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142520062","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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01658-9
Isabella Gee
{"title":"Transparency is key for energy and environment philanthropy","authors":"Isabella Gee","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01658-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01658-9","url":null,"abstract":"Transparency between researchers and funders is necessary to ensure interdisciplinary energy system decarbonization research is well funded, argues Isabella Gee.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 12","pages":"1451-1451"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142519224","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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01663-y
{"title":"The path to accurate reporting","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01663-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01663-y","url":null,"abstract":"Inconsistent reporting on energy materials and devices in research papers underscores the need for standardized protocols and greater transparency. Collaborative benchmarking initiatives are paving the way for more reliable and reproducible results.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 10","pages":"1175-1176"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01663-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01657-w
{"title":"Weather-sensitive renewable energy sources do not subject power systems to blackouts","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01657-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01657-w","url":null,"abstract":"Power grids with high penetration of weather-dependent renewable energy sources (WD-RESs) tend to have reduced blackout intensities and weather vulnerability. WD-RESs such as wind and solar are not responsible for the occurrence of blackouts in bad weather conditions.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 11","pages":"1331-1332"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451847","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}
Nature EnergyPub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01656-x
Fei Li, Mei Wang
{"title":"Producing methane through organocatalysis","authors":"Fei Li, Mei Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41560-024-01656-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41560-024-01656-x","url":null,"abstract":"Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to fuels and chemicals is usually mediated by metal-based catalysts. Now, a carbon electrode modified with an organic molecular catalyst demonstrates promising activity and selectivity for carbon dioxide electroreduction to methane via an unusual pathway.","PeriodicalId":19073,"journal":{"name":"Nature Energy","volume":"9 11","pages":"1329-1330"},"PeriodicalIF":49.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451850","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}