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Employment dynamics in a rapid decarbonization of the US power sector 美国电力行业快速脱碳中的就业动态

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.12.004

Joris Bücker , R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Anton Pichler , Matthew C. Ives , J. Doyne Farmer

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Perovskite facet heterojunction solar cells 钙钛矿面异质结太阳能电池

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.004

Feng Gao , Hang Li , Boxin Jiao , Liguo Tan , Chengtang Deng , Xianjin Wang , Chao Luo , Changling Zhan , Elke Debroye , Yingchen Peng , Ye Yang , Chenyi Yi , Qing Zhao

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In situ hydrogen generation from underground fossil hydrocarbons 从地下化石碳氢化合物就地制氢

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.101809

Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband , Moein Jahanbani Veshareh , Mark Wilkinson , Hamidreza M. Nick , Bryne T. Ngwenya , R. Stuart Haszeldine

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Empowering quality education through sustainable and equitable electricity access in African schools 通过在非洲学校提供可持续和公平的电力供应，加强优质教育

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.12.005

Magda Moner-Girona , Fernando Fahl , Georgia Kakoulaki , Do-Hyung Kim , Iyke Maduako , Sándor Szabó , Godwell Nhamo , Benjamin K. Sovacool , Daniel J. Weiss

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A dynamically bare metal interface enables reversible magnesium electrodeposition at 50 mAh cm−2 动态裸金属界面使50 mAh cm−2的可逆镁电沉积成为可能

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.007

Chang Li , Rishabh D. Guha , Stephen D. House , J. David Bazak , Yue Yu , Laidong Zhou , Kevin Zavadil , Kristin A. Persson , Linda F. Nazar

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Crosslinker-stabilized quasi-two-dimensional perovskite for solar modules with certified stability 具有稳定性认证的太阳能组件用交联剂稳定准二维钙钛矿

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.010

Fumeng Ren , Xiaoxuan Liu , Rui Chen , Zhaoyi Jiang , Zhenxing Sun , Qisen Zhou , Xueqing Cai , Jing Zhou , Jianan Wang , Sanwan Liu , Guanhaojie Zheng , Wenxi Liang , Zonghao Liu , Pavel A. Troshin , Yabing Qi , Wei Chen

{"title":"Crosslinker-stabilized quasi-two-dimensional perovskite for solar modules with certified stability","authors":"Fumeng Ren , Xiaoxuan Liu , Rui Chen , Zhaoyi Jiang , Zhenxing Sun , Qisen Zhou , Xueqing Cai , Jing Zhou , Jianan Wang , Sanwan Liu , Guanhaojie Zheng , Wenxi Liang , Zonghao Liu , Pavel A. Troshin , Yabing Qi , Wei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Upscaling perovskite solar cells to the module level while ensuring long-term stability is crucial for their commercialization. Here, we report a bottom-up crosslinking strategy utilizing 4-(aminomethyl)benzoic acid as a dual-anchor linker integrated into quasi-two-dimensional (2D) perovskite to reduce the weak van der Waals gap between individual 3D perovskite layers and to functionalize the NiO<sub>x</sub>/perovskite interface. This approach not only enhances the coupling of the perovskite slabs within the quasi-2D structure, leading to enhanced stability, but it also promotes the vertical growth of highly ordered, phase-pure low-dimensional perovskite films with improved carrier transport. The quasi-2D perovskite solar modules (PSMs) fabricated using this method have demonstrated an optimal efficiency of 16.05% over an aperture area of 9.66 cm<sup>2</sup>, utilizing a blade-coating technique in ambient air. Meanwhile, the PSMs have passed the standard damp-heat and operational stability tests for 1,000 h with negligible degradation, as verified by the VDE Prüfund Zertifizierungsinstitut GmbH (VDE Institute).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"9 2","pages":"Article 101793"},"PeriodicalIF":38.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142804968","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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Skills-based and regionally explicit labor market exposure to the low-carbon transition in Europe

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.101813

Felix Zaussinger , Tobias S. Schmidt , Florian Egli

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Grain selection growth of soft metal in electrochemical processes

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2025.101847

Minghao Zhang, Karnpiwat Tantratian, So-Yeon Ham, Zhuo Wang, Mehdi Chouchane, Ryosuke Shimizu, Shuang Bai, Hedi Yang, Zhao Liu, Letian Li, Amir Avishai, Lei Chen, Ying Shirley Meng

{"title":"Grain selection growth of soft metal in electrochemical processes","authors":"Minghao Zhang, Karnpiwat Tantratian, So-Yeon Ham, Zhuo Wang, Mehdi Chouchane, Ryosuke Shimizu, Shuang Bai, Hedi Yang, Zhao Liu, Letian Li, Amir Avishai, Lei Chen, Ying Shirley Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2025.101847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101847","url":null,"abstract":"Soft metals like lithium and sodium play a critical role in battery technology owing to their high-energy density. Texture formation by grain selection growth of soft metals during electrochemical processes is a crucial factor affecting power and safety. Here, a general thermodynamic theory and phase-field model are formulated to study the grain selection growth of soft metals. Our study focuses on the interplay between surface energy and atomic mobility-related intrinsic strain energy in grain selection growth. Differences in grain selection growth arise from the anisotropy in surface energy and the diffusion barrier of soft metal atoms. Our findings highlight the kinetic limitations of solid-state Li metal batteries, which originate from load stress-induced surface energy anisotropy. These insights lead to the development of an amorphous Li<sub>x</sub>Si<sub>1−x</sub> (0.50 < x < 0.79) seed layer, improving the critical current density at room temperature for anode-free Li solid-state batteries through the control of grain selection growth.","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143375525","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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Additive engineering enables aggressive high-voltage LiCoO2 lithium-ion batteries

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2025.101846

Ling Lv, Haikuo Zhang, Di Lu, Ruhong Li, Haotian Zhu, Baochen Ma, Shuoqing Zhang, Yiqiang Huang, Tao Zhou, Zunhao Fan, Jing Zhang, Lixin Chen, Xiayin Yao, Tao Deng, Xiulin Fan

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Solubilizing and stabilizing C60 with n-type polymer enables efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

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Joule Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.101817

Zhou Xing, Suxiang Ma, Bin-Wen Chen, Mingwei An, Ajuan Fan, Xinqiong Hu, Yang Wang, Lin-Long Deng, Qiufeng Huang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Fahad Gallab Al-Amri, Gainluca Pozzi, Yi Zhang, Jianxing Xia, Jiazhen Wu, Xugang Guo, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

{"title":"Solubilizing and stabilizing C60 with n-type polymer enables efficient inverted perovskite solar cells","authors":"Zhou Xing, Suxiang Ma, Bin-Wen Chen, Mingwei An, Ajuan Fan, Xinqiong Hu, Yang Wang, Lin-Long Deng, Qiufeng Huang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Fahad Gallab Al-Amri, Gainluca Pozzi, Yi Zhang, Jianxing Xia, Jiazhen Wu, Xugang Guo, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin","doi":"10.1016/j.joule.2024.101817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.101817","url":null,"abstract":"Pristine fullerene C<sub>60</sub> is currently the best-performing electron transport layer (ETL) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) but suffers from significant aggregation in solution. Consequently, the high-cost and complex thermal evaporation method is typically used to deposit high-quality C<sub>60</sub> ETLs. To address this challenge, we introduce an n-type polymeric additive that can solubilize and stabilize C<sub>60</sub> molecules for solution processing, leading to efficient and stable solution-processed-C<sub>60</sub> (SP-C<sub>60</sub>) ETLs. The achievement is attributed to the well-matched properties of the n-type polymer and the precisely controlled intermolecular interactions between the polymer and C<sub>60</sub>. As a result, the SP-C<sub>60</sub> ETL with 5-wt % polymer addition afforded a champion power conversion efficiency of 25.60% (certified 25.09%). This is not only the highest performance among the current SP-C<sub>60</sub> devices but also highly competitive to the state-of-the-art thermally evaporated C<sub>60</sub> devices. Importantly, the champion device showed significantly enhanced stability (<em>T</em><sub>95, light</sub> > 1,800 h; <em>T</em><sub>80, heat</sub> = 700 h).","PeriodicalId":343,"journal":{"name":"Joule","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":39.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143124950","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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