Themed collection Energy Advances – 2023 Outstanding Papers

This perspective highlights the material properties, cell design decisions, and manufacturing costs with the biggest influence on the energy, power, cost, lifetime, and safety of a battery.

This review explores machine learning's role in energy chemistry, spanning organic photovoltaics, perovskites, catalysis, and batteries, highlighting its potential to accelerate eco-friendly, sustainable energy development.

This review summarizes the superiorities and utilizations of 2D materials for photoelectrochemical water splitting including transition metal dichalcogenides, graphene, graphdiyne, black phosphorus, layered double hydroxides, g-C₃N₄, and MXenes.

The complicated and unconventional defect chemistry of Sb₂Se₃ largely dictates photovoltaic device performance. This comprehensive review aims to increase understanding of defect engineering, which is essential for further efficiency improvements.

High-capacity electrode materials made of abundant elements are necessary to develop cost-effective energy storage applications.

Highly concentrated electrolytes (HCEs) have attracted great interest as electrolyte candidates for Li metal batteries because of their functionalities in improving the reversibility and cycling performance of the Li metal negative electrode.

The percent change in solar photovoltaic potential lost due to snow cover for the optimistic SSP126 scenarios between 2019 and 2040.

Using satellite imagery we show that the installation footprint of grid-scale lithium-ion batteries is often comparable to much less energy-dense technologies such as aqueous battery systems.

Selective uranium extraction from seawater by dopant engineered layered double hydroxide.

Percolated electroactive material as electronically conductive network enables the high energy electroactive material with low intrinsic electronic conductivity at extremely high loading over 100 mg cm⁻².

Schematic illustration of light harvesting and role of Ti_1−xFe_xO₂ photoanodes in PCE enhancement. This enhanced PCE is ascribed to the increased surface adsorption and reduced charge recombination via new electron state creation with Fe³⁺ doping.