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{"title":"High-flux and stable thin-film evaporation from fiber membranes with interconnected pores","authors":"Tianshi Feng, Yu Pei, Haowen Zhang, Brooklyn Asai, Gaoweiang Dong, Atharva Joshi, Abhishek Saha, Shengqiang Cai, Renkun Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101975","url":null,"abstract":"Capillary-driven thin-film evaporation in nanoporous membranes has emerged as a promising thermal management strategy for high-power electronic devices, owing to its high theoretical critical heat flux (CHF) enabled by the extensive evaporating areas within the nanopores. In this study, we investigate fiber membranes with three-dimensional interconnected open pores as efficient evaporators. Unlike traditional membranes with isolated pores, these open structures facilitate rapid and uniform liquid transport through multiple pathways, effectively reducing clogging and ensuring consistent wetting across the surface. Capillary-driven evaporation achieved a maximum CHF of over 800 W cm⁻² on a relatively large heating area of approximately 0.5 cm², attributed to the larger effective thin-film evaporation areas provided by the open-pore structures. Moreover, the fiber membranes demonstrated long-term stability. These findings suggest that 3D fiber membrane evaporators are highly promising for advanced thermal management, offering efficient, stable cooling solutions to meet the demands of modern electronic systems.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144278771","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":"Aqueous zinc-iodine batteries with ultra-high loading and advanced performance","authors":"Han Wu, Shao-Jian Zhang, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Mietek Jaroniec, Junnan Hao, Shi-Zhang Qiao","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.102000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.102000","url":null,"abstract":"Aqueous zinc-iodine (Zn-I₂) batteries, leveraging abundant resources and inherent safety, face commercialization challenges due to low cathode loading and iodine sublimation in traditional fabrication methods. We introduce a dry electrode preparation technique that significantly enhances the areal capacity to 15.8 mA h cm⁻² (ZnI₂ loading >100 mg cm⁻²), far exceeding previous Zn-I₂ and commercial Li-ion batteries (∼3–5 mA h cm⁻²). This method not only increases cathode loading but also reduces polyiodides' shuttle effects and self-discharge rates, achieving a low discharge rate of 11.16% over 168 h. To address zinc-related issues at high loadings, 1,3,5-trioxane is added to the electrolyte to form a flexible polymer solid electrolyte interphase, preventing zinc dendrite formation. Our approach enables an A h-level pouch cell with remarkable cycling stability, maintaining 88.6% capacity after 750 cycles at 1 C at a high areal capacity of 15.8 mA h cm⁻², demonstrating potential applicability to other aqueous and halogen-based battery systems.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144268954","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":"Little to lose: The case for a robust European green hydrogen strategy","authors":"Koen van Greevenbroek, Johannes Schmidt, Marianne Zeyringer, Alexander Horsch","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101974","url":null,"abstract":"The EU targets 10 Mt of green hydrogen production by 2030 but has not committed to targets for 2040. Green hydrogen competes with carbon capture and storage, biomass, and imports as well as direct electrification in reaching emissions reductions; earlier studies have demonstrated the great uncertainty in future cost-optimal development of green hydrogen. In spite of this, we show that Europe risks little by setting green hydrogen production targets at around 25 Mt by 2040. Employing an extensive scenario analysis combined with novel near-optimal techniques, we find that this target results in systems that are within 10% of cost-optimal in all considered scenarios with current-day biomass availability and baseline transportation electrification. Setting concrete targets is important in order to resolve significant uncertainty that hampers investments. Targeting green hydrogen reduces the dependence on carbon capture and storage and green fuel imports, making for a more robust European climate strategy.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260553","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":"A polymer membrane with integrated microphase separation and intrinsic microporosity for aqueous organic redox flow batteries","authors":"Guang-Hui He, Lu Li, Hua Xu, Yunlong Ji, Pan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101976","url":null,"abstract":"The aqueous organic redox flow battery (AORFB) is a promising electrochemical technology for large-scale and long-duration energy storage, requiring highly conductive and selective ion-exchange membranes. Traditional porous and microphase-separated membranes often present a tradeoff between high ion conductivity and low crossover of active species, remaining a persistent research challenge. Here, we propose a key design strategy that integrates size-confined microphase separation and intrinsic microporosity within a solution-processable Tröger’s base (TB) framework. By introducing a delayed implementation of a three-armed branch linker and a semi-rigid polymer backbone in a sequential synthesis, the resulting branched TB membrane <strong><em>b</em>-DPM-N3</strong>, demonstrates both high conductivity and selectivity (as low as 10⁻¹² cm²/s permeability of various active materials) and showcases its efficiency in AORFBs with record power density and up to 42% energy efficiency under 300 mA/cm² current density. This design concept offers broad potential for membrane applications in electrochemical devices.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260551","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":"Rethinking resilience of low-carbon transportation using a multi-system dynamics approach","authors":"Sonia Yeh, Sergey Paltsev, John M. Reilly, David Daniels, Pedro Linares","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101999","url":null,"abstract":"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.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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.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.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.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.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","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":"High-efficiency, ultra-flexible organic solar cells enabled by chloroprene rubber as both a non-volatile solid additive and plasticizer","authors":"Zhengdong Wei, Yifan Wang, Yonghuan Li, Shida Gong, Xiaolin Jiang, Yueheng Liu, Dayong Zhang, Yongjoon Cho, Andong Zhang, Lin Gao, Yetai Cheng, Hao Lu, Hongxiang Li, Yahui Liu, Yao Yao, Chenyi Zhang, Qihang Liu, Pei Cheng, Antonio Facchetti, Zhishan Bo, Tobin J. Marks","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101996","url":null,"abstract":"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%.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"585 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","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":"Solid-state batteries enabled by ultra-high-frequency self-heating","authors":"Buyi Zhang, Divya Chalise, Yuqiang Zeng, Fengyu Shen, Michael Tucker, Sumanjeet Kaur, Chris Dames, Ravi Prasher","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101973","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","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":"Lithium enrichment threatens to curb fusion deployment","authors":"Samuel H. Ward, Richard J. Pearson, Thomas Scott, Niek J. Lopes Cardozo","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101997","url":null,"abstract":"Samuel Ward has close to a decade of experience across the commercialization stack of nuclear fusion, from plasma physics research and engineering to policy and strategy. He aims to help fusion generate value, not just power. He spent his time as a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology researching fusion technoeconomics, previously working on plasma physics at CCFE and ITER for his PhD at the University of York. He holds an MPhys from the University of Manchester and currently performs market, technoeconomic, and strategic analysis for firms in the nuclear fusion space.Richard J. Pearson is chief innovator and co-founder of Kyoto Fusioneering and visiting senior research associate at the University of Bristol. Holding a PhD in fusion engineering and innovation (Open University) and an MSc in nuclear engineering (Imperial College London), he aligns industrial practice with academic inquiry, translating complex fusion concepts into bankable, policy-aligned technologies through rigorous systems thinking, including specifically on the topic of fuel supply for fusion. Richard is the author of 15+ publications on technology roadmapping, tritium supply, and deep-tech commercialization and also serves as field editor for commercialization at the <em>Journal of Fusion Energy</em>.Thomas Scott is a professor of materials at the University of Bristol, holding a 5-year RAEng chair in actinide materials. He has published over 60 academic papers and holds 3 patents, having co-founded Imitec and Arkenlight. He is the academic lead for the Sellafield UK Centre of Expertise for Uranium and Reactive Metals, having developed two novel radiation detection techniques. His research interests are in aging, corrosion, and characterization of radioactive materials in engineered and environmental systems.Niek Lopes Cardozo is professor emeritus of science and technology of nuclear fusion at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, where he initiated the dedicated, interdisciplinary MSc program on fusion energy. Before focusing on education, he directed the Dutch fusion research program and served on many European scientific and managerial fusion committees. In parallel with his work as a researcher and educator, he has been active in science policy on the national level. In recent years, his research has focused on the socio- and techno-economics of the energy transition and the potential role of fusion energy therein.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219162","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":"Pathways to national-scale adoption of enhanced geothermal power through experience-driven cost reductions","authors":"Wilson Ricks, Jesse D. Jenkins","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101971","url":null,"abstract":"Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are one of a small number of emerging energy technologies with the potential to deliver firm carbon-free electricity at a large scale but are often excluded from macro-scale decarbonization studies due to uncertainties regarding their cost and resource potential. Here, we combine empirically grounded near-term EGS cost estimates with an experience curves framework, by which costs fall as a function of cumulative deployment, to model EGS deployment pathways and impacts on the United States (US) electricity sector from the present through 2050. We find that by initially exploiting limited high-quality geothermal resources in the western US, EGS can achieve early commercialization and experience-based cost reductions that enable it to supply up to a fifth of total US electricity generation by 2050 and substantially reduce the cost of decarbonization nationwide. Higher-than-expected initial EGS costs could inhibit early growth and constrain the technology’s long-run potential, though supportive policies counteract these effects.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211249","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, Yaohui Shi, Jiyuan Liu, Aoni Xu, Fengwang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101970","url":null,"abstract":"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).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.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.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.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.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","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}