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{"title":"Rethinking resilience of low-carbon transportation using a multi-system dynamics approach","authors":"Sonia Yeh ,&nbsp;Sergey Paltsev ,&nbsp;John M. Reilly ,&nbsp;David Daniels ,&nbsp;Pedro Linares","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101999","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sonia Yeh is professor of transport and energy systems at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and a globally recognized expert on the decarbonization of transport and energy systems. Her research spans energy economics, alternative fuels, mobility behavior, and sustainability policy. She has advised US federal and state agencies, as well as international governments and organizations, on climate strategies and system transitions. Dr. Yeh is a contributing author to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, a senior editor of <em>Energy Policy</em>, and recipient of the Håkan Frisinger Award from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.</div><div>Sergey Paltsev is deputy director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy and senior research scientist at MIT Energy Initiative . He oversees the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model of the world economy. Dr. Paltsev is an author of more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and books on energy economics, climate policy, transport, advanced energy technologies, and international trade. Sergey is a recipient of the 2012 Pyke Johnson Award from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies USA for the best paper in planning and environment.</div><div>John Reilly is a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at the MIT and a contributor to the Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy at MIT. His research focuses on the economics of energy, environment, and climate change and the interactions between human and natural earth systems.</div><div>David Daniels is a senior researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), where he conducts analyses at the intersection of transport electrification, energy system dynamics, and infrastructure resilience. His recent work focuses on energy transport integration in shipping and aviation, such as ports and airports as energy hubs. He previously served as chief energy modeler at the US Energy Information Administration and developed quantitative terrorism risk methods for the US Department of Homeland Security.</div><div>Pedro Linares is professor of industrial engineering at Comillas Pontifical University – ICAI and affiliate researcher at the MIT CEEPR and the University of Cambridge EPRG. His research focuses on the assessment of energy, climate, transport, and industrial policies and the development of energy and economic models. He has been a consultant for several private and public firms and institutions in Spain, Europe, and Latin America.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 7","pages":"Article 101999"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260268","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}

{"title":"Enhancing data reproducibility and relevance for performance-mechanism studies in CO2 electrocatalysis","authors":"Yu Yang ,&nbsp;Yaohui Shi ,&nbsp;Jiyuan Liu ,&nbsp;Aoni Xu ,&nbsp;Fengwang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101970","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101970","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Yu Yang joined Dr. Fengwang Li’s group as a PhD candidate in 2021 at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on catalyst and system design for the electrochemical CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR).</div><div>Yaohui Shi is a PhD candidate at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale of the University of Science and Technology of China. Her research focuses on the mass-transport effects of CO₂ electrocatalytic reduction.</div><div>Jiyuan Liu received her PhD degree in 2023 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemistry and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney. Her main interest is designing and synthesizing electrocatalysts for the CO₂RR.</div><div>Aoni Xu is a lecturer and Sydney Horizon Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on sustainable energy solutions, electrochemical system modeling, and the integration of artificial intelligence in catalyst discovery.</div><div>Fengwang Li is a senior lecturer at the University of Syndey and a flagship program lead at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2). His research focuses on electrochemical engineering, including CO₂ capture and conversion, green hydrogen, and green ammonia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 7","pages":"Article 101970"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144177253","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}

{"title":"High-emissivity, thermally robust emitters for high power density thermophotovoltaics","authors":"Minok Park ,&nbsp;Shomik Verma ,&nbsp;Alina LaPotin ,&nbsp;Dustin P. Nizamian ,&nbsp;Ravi Prasher ,&nbsp;Asegun Henry ,&nbsp;Sean D. Lubner ,&nbsp;Costas P. Grigoropoulos ,&nbsp;Vassilia Zorba","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Thermal radiative energy transport is essential for high-temperature energy harvesting technologies, including thermophotovoltaics (TPVs) and grid-scale thermal energy storage. However, the inherently low emissivity of conventional high-temperature materials constrains radiative energy transfer, thereby limiting system performance and technoeconomic viability. Here, we demonstrate ultrafast femtosecond laser-material interactions to transform diverse materials into near-blackbody surfaces with broadband spectral emissivity above 0.96. This enhancement arises from hierarchically engineered light-trapping microstructures enriched with nanoscale features, effectively decoupling surface optical properties from bulk thermomechanical properties. These laser-blackened surfaces (LaBS) exhibit exceptional thermal stability, retaining high emissivity for over 100 h at temperatures exceeding 1,000°C, even in oxidizing environments. When applied as TPV thermal emitters, Ta LaBS double electrical power output from 2.19 to 4.10 W cm⁻² at 2,200°C while sustaining TPV conversion efficiencies above 30%. This versatile, largely material-independent technique offers a scalable and economically viable pathway to enhance emissivity for advanced thermal energy applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 7","pages":"Article 102005"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516177","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}

{"title":"Organic semiconductors for solar fuel production: Enhance and protect!","authors":"Ewan McQueen ,&nbsp;Reiner Sebastian Sprick","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, Daboczi et al. demonstrated anodes based on bulk heterojunction organic photoactive materials protected by graphite layers and loaded with NiFeOOH as a water oxidation catalyst showing remarkable photocurrent densities of up to 26.4 mA cm⁻² at +1.23 V vs. NHE with excellent stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 7","pages":"Article 102041"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144631545","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}

{"title":"Solid-state batteries enabled by ultra-high-frequency self-heating","authors":"Buyi Zhang ,&nbsp;Divya Chalise ,&nbsp;Yuqiang Zeng ,&nbsp;Fengyu Shen ,&nbsp;Michael Tucker ,&nbsp;Sumanjeet Kaur ,&nbsp;Chris Dames ,&nbsp;Ravi Prasher","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Solid-state batteries (SSBs) are promising next-generation batteries due to their high energy density and enhanced thermal stability and safety. However, their sluggish kinetics and transport at room temperature result in high internal impedance and critically reduce the attainable discharge energy density. Taking advantage of their strong temperature-dependent ionic conductivity, here we introduce ultra-high-frequency (greater than 10⁵ Hz) self-heating (UHFSH) of SSBs, which can rapidly warm up the batteries from room temperature to operating temperature (∼65°C) in less than a minute. As proof of concept, UHFSH experiments were conducted on symmetric solid-state cells with lithium aluminum germanium phosphate electrolyte in different configurations. Using an experimentally validated model, pack-level simulations predict fast heating (50 K/min) and minimized heating energy consumption (less than 4%). Without any modification of the materials or structure of the batteries, our non-intrusive self-heating strategy potentially enables SSBs to discharge more than 2-fold energy in 25°C ambient.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 7","pages":"Article 101973"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144252633","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}

{"title":"High-efficiency, ultra-flexible organic solar cells enabled by chloroprene rubber as both a non-volatile solid additive and plasticizer","authors":"Zhengdong Wei ,&nbsp;Yifan Wang ,&nbsp;Yonghuan Li ,&nbsp;Shida Gong ,&nbsp;Xiaolin Jiang ,&nbsp;Yueheng Liu ,&nbsp;Dayong Zhang ,&nbsp;Yongjoon Cho ,&nbsp;Andong Zhang ,&nbsp;Lin Gao ,&nbsp;Yetai Cheng ,&nbsp;Hao Lu ,&nbsp;Hongxiang Li ,&nbsp;Yahui Liu ,&nbsp;Yao Yao ,&nbsp;Chenyi Zhang ,&nbsp;Qihang Liu ,&nbsp;Pei Cheng ,&nbsp;Antonio Facchetti ,&nbsp;Zhishan Bo ,&nbsp;Tobin J. Marks","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Organic solar cells (OSCs) offer the attraction of mechanical flexibility, enabling unique application scenarios for wearable devices. This study reports the incorporation of chloroprene rubber (CR) as a third component in D18:L8BO OSCs. CR not only serves as a plasticizer that enhances the OSC photoactive film’s stretchability and robustness by incorporating elastomeric chains as well as by promoting three-dimensional non-covalent crosslinking but also acts as a non-volatile additive that enhances D18 molecular packing, thereby increasing the power conversion efficiency (PCE). Thus, rigid substrate OSCs with 5 wt % CR (versus D18 weight reference) exhibit an impressive PCE = 19.25%, and the device containing 50 wt % CR demonstrates both relatively high photovoltaic performance (PCE = 15.95%) and exceptional ductility, exhibiting a crack onset strain of 23.5%. Finally, ultra-flexible OSCs with high performance and mechanical stability are successfully fabricated using 5 wt % CR, achieving a remarkable PCE of 16.91%.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 7","pages":"Article 101996"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260550","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}

{"title":"Beyond cooling: Radiative thermoregulation in the Earth’s glow with micropatterned directional emitters","authors":"Mathis Degeorges ,&nbsp;Jyothis Anand ,&nbsp;Yung Chak Anson Tsang ,&nbsp;Zhenpeng Li ,&nbsp;Nithin Jo Varghese ,&nbsp;Jyotirmoy Mandal","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101956","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101956","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We demonstrate a micropatterned directional emitter (μDE) with an ultrabroadband directional thermal emittance. The μDE enables a previously unexplored passive seasonal thermoregulation of buildings by reducing terrestrial heat flows. μDEs with metallic and white appearances can be made using low-cost materials and scalable manufacturing techniques and have their directional emittance geometrically tailored to different urban scenarios. We also show a novel, visibly transparent variant. In outdoor experiments, μDEs stay 1.53°C to 3.26°C cooler than traditional omnidirectional building envelopes in warm weather and up to 0.46°C warmer in cold weather. Additionally, our μDEs demonstrate significant cooling powers of up to 40 W.m⁻² in warm conditions and heating powers of up to 35 W.m⁻² in cool conditions relative to typical building envelopes. A building energy model shows that μDEs can achieve all-season energy savings similar to or higher than those of cool roofs. Collectively, our findings show μDEs as highly promising for thermoregulating buildings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 6","pages":"Article 101956"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979820","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}

{"title":"Green separation of driving electrodes for water electrolysis","authors":"Pengwei Li ,&nbsp;Xiaoning Xia ,&nbsp;Li Wang ,&nbsp;Xiangming He","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The effective separation of electrode materials poses a challenge to the industrial application of direct regeneration of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). In a recent issue of <em>Nature Sustainability</em>, Wang et al. introduced a water-electrolysis-induced separation (WES) technology for rapid separation of electrode materials, achieving a recovery rate exceeding 99.5%.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 6","pages":"Article 102003"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144306898","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}

{"title":"Multilevel emission impacts of electrification and coal pathways in China’s net-zero transition","authors":"Chen Chris Gong ,&nbsp;Falko Ueckerdt ,&nbsp;Christoph Bertram ,&nbsp;Yuxin Yin ,&nbsp;David Bantje ,&nbsp;Robert Pietzcker ,&nbsp;Johanna Hoppe ,&nbsp;Robin Hasse ,&nbsp;Michaja Pehl ,&nbsp;Simón Moreno-Leiva ,&nbsp;Jakob Duerrwaechter ,&nbsp;Jarusch Muesse ,&nbsp;Gunnar Luderer","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decarbonizing China's energy system requires both greening the power supply and electrifying end-use sectors. However, concerns exist that electrification may increase emissions while coal power dominates. Using a global climate model, we explore electrification scenarios with varying coal phase-out timelines and assess their climate impact on China’s sectors. A 10-year delay in coal phase-out could increase global peak temperature by about 0.02°C. However, on a sectoral level, there is no evidence of significant additional emissions from electrification, even with a slower coal phase-out. This challenges the sequential “order of abatement” view, showing electrification can start before the power sector is fully decarbonized. As long as power emission intensity drops below 150 gCO₂/kWh by 2040, electrification can substantially reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, steel, and transport services, and along with energy-efficiency measures, it can avoid approximately 0.035°C of additional global warming by 2060.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 6","pages":"Article 101945"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905446","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}

{"title":"Controlling orientational anisotropy boosts organic thermoelectrics","authors":"Kenneth R. Graham","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a recently published article in <em>Nature Materials</em>,<span><span>¹</span></span> Rosas Villalva et al. report a new approach for increasing the thermoelectric performance of conjugated polymer films. Their approach is based on tuning intermolecular interactions through systematic solvent and dopant selection to control orientational anisotropy and increase the in-plane electrical conductivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 6","pages":"Article 102002"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144306900","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}