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{"title":"Keeping photovoltaics cool","authors":"Xueting Zhao ,&nbsp;Jiefeng Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101845","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a recent issue of <em>Device</em>, Yip and co-workers reported a self-adaptive interfacial evaporation system that integrates passive evaporative cooling with an active water management pathway. The semi-passive/semi-active system offers a novel and intelligent paradigm for high-efficiency photovoltaic cooling, characterized by near-zero energy usage and low water consumption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101845"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445325","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":"Sulfonated poly(ether-ether-ketone) membranes with intrinsic microporosity enable efficient redox flow batteries for energy storage","authors":"Toby Wong,&nbsp;Yijie Yang,&nbsp;Rui Tan,&nbsp;Anqi Wang,&nbsp;Zhou Zhou,&nbsp;Zhizhang Yuan,&nbsp;Jiaxi Li,&nbsp;Dezhi Liu,&nbsp;Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez,&nbsp;Chunchun Ye,&nbsp;Mark Sankey,&nbsp;David Ainsworth,&nbsp;Stefan Guldin,&nbsp;Fabrizia Foglia,&nbsp;Neil B. McKeown,&nbsp;Kim E. Jelfs,&nbsp;Xianfeng Li,&nbsp;Qilei Song","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.101814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.101814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101814"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142908360","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}

{"title":"Geological ammonia: Stimulated NH3 production from rocks","authors":"Yifan Gao ,&nbsp;Ming Lei ,&nbsp;Bachu Sravan Kumar ,&nbsp;Hugh Barrett Smith ,&nbsp;Seok Hee Han ,&nbsp;Lokesh Sangabattula ,&nbsp;Ju Li ,&nbsp;Iwnetim I. Abate","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.12.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although ammonia production is crucial for global agriculture, it comes with substantial carbon footprints. Here, for the first time, we propose and demonstrate a different method for stimulated (proactive) and <em>in situ</em> geological ammonia (Geo-NH₃) production directly from rocks. Our approach demonstrated that NH₃ can be efficiently generated by reacting natural (Fe,Mg)₂SiO₄ (olivine) minerals with nitrate-source water at 130°C–300°C and 0.25–8.5 MPa, and even at ambient temperature and pressure. Using both actual rocks and synthetic mineral Fe(OH)₂, we investigated mechanisms and optimized conditions through experiments and theoretical calculations. We revealed the basic chemistry enabling Geo-NH₃ production: Fe²⁺ contained in rocks reduces the nitrate source to NH₃. Our approach, involving only the injection of nitrate-source water into the subsurface to utilize <em>in situ</em> subsurface heat and pressure, requires no external H₂ or electric current and emits no direct CO₂, offering a feasible alternative to sustainable NH₃ production at scale.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101805"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142991188","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}

{"title":"Tandem electrochemical hydrogen pumps with ion-pair membranes","authors":"Wenjie Shao ,&nbsp;Shuang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The low H₂ concentration in most natural gas pipelines poses challenges, leading to high separation/compression costs. In a recent issue of <em>Nature Energy</em>, Kim and co-workers demonstrated a tandem electrochemical hydrogen pump system that reveals high-purity and low-cost H₂ extraction from mixtures, providing a possibility for transport from H₂ stations to end users.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101848"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445326","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":"Strain-induced power output enhancement in intrinsically stretchable organic solar cells","authors":"Jin-Woo Lee ,&nbsp;Eun Sung Oh ,&nbsp;Seungbok Lee ,&nbsp;Tan Ngoc-Lan Phan ,&nbsp;Taek-Soo Kim ,&nbsp;Jung-Yong Lee ,&nbsp;John R. Reynolds ,&nbsp;Bumjoon J. Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Intrinsically stretchable organic solar cells (IS-OSCs) are a promising class of wearable power sources. Although the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and mechanical stretchability of IS-OSCs have significantly improved, the current stretchability level still falls short of meeting the demands of wearable electronics. The power output (PCE × photoactive area) of these OSCs is a key figure of merit in determining their potential as power sources. However, the impact of stretching on changes in the photoactive area and the resulting power output has not been investigated. In this study, we construct highly stretchable and efficient photoactive systems by designing a polymer donor, PBET-TF. IS-OSCs based on PBET-TF maintain over 80% of their original PCE up to 50% strain (strain at PCE_80% = 50%), which significantly outperforms the reference PBDB-TF-based IS-OSCs (strain at PCE_80% = 11%). Importantly, for the first time, we demonstrate strain-induced power output increases in IS-OSCs using the developed PBET-TF-based photoactive systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101792"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142804721","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":"Promising excitonic absorption for efficient perovskite solar cells","authors":"Biao Li ,&nbsp;Yuxin Yao ,&nbsp;Chenxia Kan ,&nbsp;Pengjie Hang ,&nbsp;Jiangsheng Xie ,&nbsp;Qixin Yin ,&nbsp;Daoyong Zhang ,&nbsp;Xuegong Yu ,&nbsp;Deren Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.10.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tuning the band gap of perovskites toward the ideal band gap enables the enhancement of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here, we demonstrate that the optical band-gap narrowing can be achieved by employing the excitonic absorption in perovskites through tuning their exciton binding energy (<em>E</em>_b), which directly leads to a photocurrent gain and hence improves the PCE of PSCs. With combined theoretical and experimental studies, it is revealed that the <em>E</em>_b is deeply correlated with the density of vacancy defects in perovskites due to their potential screening effect. Using the precursor engineering, we enhance the <em>E</em>_b by decreasing the density of vacancy defects in perovskites films. As a result, the improved excitonic absorption in formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI₃) obviously broadens the spectral response and thus boosts the efficiency of the champion PSC up to 26.31% (certified 26.09%), mainly due to an enhanced photocurrent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101780"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142599685","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":"Grid connection barriers to renewable energy deployment in the United States","authors":"Will Gorman ,&nbsp;Julie Mulvaney Kemp ,&nbsp;Joseph Rand ,&nbsp;Joachim Seel ,&nbsp;Ryan Wiser ,&nbsp;Nick Manderlink ,&nbsp;Fredrich Kahrl ,&nbsp;Kevin Porter ,&nbsp;Will Cotton","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bulk-power grid connection is an emerging bottleneck to the entry of wind, solar, and storage but has been understudied due to a lack of data. We create and analyze two novel interconnection datasets with more than 38,000 project-level observations that provide new information documenting interconnection challenges in the United States. Active grid connection requests are more than double the total installed capacity of the US power plant fleet (2,600 vs. 1,280 GW). The time required to secure a connection has increased by 70% over the last decade, and withdrawal rates remain high at 80%, suggesting a constrained transmission system that jeopardizes energy transition targets. Wide distributions of interconnection costs indicate the inherent uncertainty of the interconnection process. Interconnection requests that identify large transmission upgrades tend to withdraw from the process. These findings suggest the need for interconnection reforms, tighter links between long-term transmission planning and project-level interconnection processes, and more interconnection outcome transparency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101791"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142783245","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}

{"title":"24/7 carbon-free electricity matching accelerates adoption of advanced clean energy technologies","authors":"Iegor Riepin ,&nbsp;Jesse D. Jenkins ,&nbsp;Devon Swezey ,&nbsp;Tom Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.101808","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.101808","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span><figure><span><img><ol><li><span><span>Download: <span>Download high-res image (136KB)</span></span></span></li><li><span><span>Download: <span>Download full-size image</span></span></span></li></ol></span></figure></span></div><div>Iegor Riepin is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in energy systems at the Technische Universität Berlin. His work focuses on energy system modeling, energy economics and policy, and operations research. Iegor’s expertise and research interests encompass mathematical models, their applications to real-world problems, their limitations, and their impacts on decision-making. He contributes to advancing open and reproducible research practices and is a member of the Python for power system analysis (PyPSA) maintainers group.</div><div>Tom Brown leads a group of energy system modelers at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he holds the professorship for digital transformation in energy systems. His group researches future pathways for the energy system, with a particular focus on revealing the trade-offs between energy resources, network expansion, flexibility, and public acceptance of new infrastructure. He is a supporter of openness in research and is one of the lead developers of the widely used open-source software PyPSA. Tom holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, and a BA and MMath from the University of Cambridge.</div><div>Jesse D. Jenkins is an assistant professor at Princeton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. He leads the Princeton ZERO Lab, which focuses on improving and applying optimization-based macro-energy system models to evaluate low-carbon energy technologies and generate insights to guide policy and planning decisions. Jesse earned a PhD and SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was previously a postdoctoral environmental fellow at Harvard University.</div><div>Devon Swezey is senior manager for global energy and climate at Google, where he leads global clean energy advocacy. He is an author of numerous Google publications on 24/7 carbon-free electricity, including Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) policy roadmap and paper on the corporate role in accelerating advanced clean electricity technologies. Devon earned a MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in international relations from Stanford University.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101808"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143050431","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":"Technoeconomic analysis of perovskite/silicon tandem solar modules","authors":"Jacob J. Cordell ,&nbsp;Michael Woodhouse ,&nbsp;Emily L. Warren","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.10.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.10.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules offer an opportunity to improve the efficiency and energy yield of available solar resources compared with single-junction devices. We present a cost model and sensitivity analysis of perovskite/silicon (Si) tandem modules to understand how design choices impact overall module costs. We find a minimum sustainable price (MSP) of $0.428/W_DC for our baseline two-terminal design and $0.423/W_DC for our baseline four-terminal design, each at a module efficiency of 25% and module production of 3 GW per year in the United States. We find that the choice of Si cell architecture, overall module efficiency, and factory throughput have the most significant impacts on cost and competitiveness. The dynamic model provided is designed for researchers, companies, and interested individuals to use and edit as needed to better understand the trade-offs among PV module technologies and enable targeted research to improve module design and fabrication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101781"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637568","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}

{"title":"Fast ionic conduction achieved through the design and synthesis of ceramic heterointerfaces","authors":"Shingo Ohta ,&nbsp;Nikhilendra Singh ,&nbsp;Rajeev Kumar Rai ,&nbsp;Hyeongjun Koh ,&nbsp;Yihui Zhang ,&nbsp;Wonjoon Suk ,&nbsp;Max J. Palmer ,&nbsp;Son-Jong Hwang ,&nbsp;Michael Jones ,&nbsp;Chuhong Wang ,&nbsp;Chen Ling ,&nbsp;Kimber Stamm Masias ,&nbsp;Eli Stavitski ,&nbsp;Jeff Sakamoto ,&nbsp;Eric A. Stach","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lithium (Li) chloride and iron oxychloride (FeOCl), typically nonconductive, were combined to form a [Li_{1+<em>δ</em>}Cl]^<em>δ</em>+/[FeOCl]^{<em>δ</em>−} heterointerface composite material (LFH), achieving ionic conductivities of &gt;1 mS cm⁻¹. Analysis techniques (scanning transmission electron microscopy [STEM] and electron energy-loss spectroscopy [EELS]) indicated that the microstructure of LFH consisted of an amorphous LiCl-based shell surrounding a crystalline FeOCl-based core. Electrochemical measurements alongside solid-state ^6,7Li nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamic simulations revealed Li⁺ as the sole conductive species, with a diffusion barrier of ∼0.25 eV. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) results further supported interstitial Li⁺ diffusion at the heterointerface and within the LiCl phase, made possible by the heterointerface. Despite susceptibility to electronic conductivity, iron’s defects and multivalency (Fe³⁺, Fe²⁺) enable the Fe–O–Cl framework to accept Cl⁻, facilitating Li⁺ ionic conduction. A prototype solid-state cell (showing 97% Coulombic efficiency) demonstrated the viability of this heterointerface design for applications in energy storage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101789"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142760636","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}