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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9991-10035
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02910D, Review Article

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Shaowen Mao, Siqin Yu, Jianping Xu, Hang Chen, Wen Zhao, Martin J. Blunt, Qinjun Kang, Michael Gross, Bailian Chen, Jolante Van Wijk, Qingwang Yuan, Kai Gao, Saif R. Kazi, Mohamed Mehana
This paper provides a comprehensive review of geologic hydrogen, covering its resource potential, origins, migration and trapping mechanisms, exploration techniques, production strategies, and pipeline transportation.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,10164-10179
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE05342K, Paper

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Top Archie Dela Peña, Yongmin Luo, Yulong Hai, Ruijie Ma, Andrew Dolan, Sepideh Khanmohammadi, Jessica M. de la Perrelle, Yuanzhi Zheng, Qi Wei, Yao Li, Longfei Jia, Sheena Anne Garcia, King Lun Yeung, Kateryna Kushnir Friedman, Lyubov V. Titova, Tao Jia, He Yan, Tak W. Kee, Wenchao Zhao, Wei Gao, Mingjie Li, Jiaying Wu
Understanding how to optimize the electronic processes and material selections are fundamental to fostering the development of organic solar cells (OSCs).
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02115

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9550-9560
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE04137F, Paper

Ben Zhang, Nuo Xu, Juanyong Wan, Hongxiang Li, Jinfeng Xia, Juan Zhu, Jiacheng Xu, Haiyang Chen, Weijie Chen, Guang Zeng, Yaowen Li, Yongfang Li
Dual-functional solid additives induce oriented attachment of ZnO nanoparticles, simultaneously regulating nanoparticle ordering and defect passivation, enabling record efficiencies in  both rigid and flexible organic solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9423-9434
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01576F, Perspective

Alain R. Puente Santiago, Tianwei He, Md Ariful Ahsan, Mohamed Noufal, Edison Huixiang Ang, Jamie Warner, Christopher Dares
Understanding the dynamic evolution of single and nanocluster electrocatalytic sites at the atomic level is essential for controlling the activity and selectivity of key electrocatalytic reactions.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9217-9229
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02742J, Paper

Qinqin Wang, Kaiyuan Guo, Wangping Wu, Siwen Gu, Xinyu Zhang, Jingyu Cao, Zhao Wang, Yusif Mohammed Mukhtar, Jianning Ding
Double-layered SiO_x/n⁺-poly-Si films with laterally modulated thickness applied in TOPCon solar cells can reduced recombination, enhance contact quality, decrease risk of paste burn-through of the passivation layer and reduce parasitic absorption.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c03367

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9149-9157
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE04570C, Paper

Cun Zhou, Weicheng Wang, Haotian Wu, Jinsen Zhang, Ying Zhou, Yao Wang, Gang Wu, Weifei Fu, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Hongzheng Chen
A bimolecular amine vapor passivation (BAVP) strategy enables 25.2% efficient blade-coated FAPbI₃ solar cells with outstanding thermal stability.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9194-9204
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE04322K, Paper

Kewei Hu, Yu Ge, Hang Yang, Yue Xu, Jiahao Qian, Xuncheng Zhu, Yue Wu, Chaohua Cui, Yongfang Li
We demonstrated the significance of a polarizable dispersion effect of a chlorine substituent in optimizing the intermolecular π–π stacking of a small-molecule acceptor for efficient organic solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,9105-9113
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02650D, Paper

So Jeong Park, Changhoon Yu, Kyu In Shim, Geon Pyo Hong, Sunwu Song, Jae Hyun Park, Sun Kyung Hwang, Yeo Jin Choi, Jeong Woo Han, Min Sang Kwon, Ik Jae Park, Jin Young Kim
The fluorine substitution strategy, with asymmetric structure and larger dipole moment, enhances charge transport and stabilizes the perovskite/SAM interface. A cost-effective perovskite/PERC tandem solar cell achieved a record efficiency of 30.05%.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01314

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00872

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01203

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,7635-7647
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01977J, Paper

Zhicheng Zhong, Sergio Gámez-Valenzuela, Jin-Woo Lee, Yufei Wang, Bolin Li, Guanshui Xie, Weijie Zhou, Changjing Xu, Dingqin Hu, Haihui Cai, Qing Lian, Longbin Qiu, Guangye Zhang, Mingwei An, Yang Wang, Bumjoon J. Kim, Xugang Guo, Bin Liu
The incorporation of bowl-shaped corannulene as a solid additive in the active layer enhances organic solar cell efficiency to 20.52%, alongside remarkable thermal stability with a T₈₅ lifespan of 2007 h.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,8171-8181
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01828E, Paper

Jiayuan Zhu, Hongxiang Li, Heng Wang, Yufei Gong, Yonghuan Li, Yetai Cheng, Yiling Hu, Jie Xiong, Jiayu Wang, Lei Meng, Jin Fang, Wenjun Zou, Yifan Wang, Yuqiang Liu, Cenqi Yan, Yongfang Li, Pei Cheng
The Cl-16C additive engineers PM6 packing through inducing multidirectional crystallinity and increasing physical crosslinking, achieving tripled elongation at break with 19.7% OPV efficiency for the PM6/BTP-eC9 system.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,8029-8038
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02196K, Paper

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Ziqing Lin, Payal Chaudhary, S. Avery Vigil, Matteo Fratarcangeli, Conner J. Soderstedt, Vitaly Alexandrov, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez
Electroadsorption analysis enables the determination of reaction intermediates to accelerate the design of next generation electrocatalysts.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01127

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01042

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01353

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,7114-7123
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01031D, Paper

Haodan Guo, Yang Wang, Kun Zhang, Mingquan Tao, Lutong Guo, Xiwen Zhang, Zhaofei Song, Jinxu Wen, Tian Hou, Yuelong Huang, Yanlin Song
The intermolecular interactions triggered crystallization strategy modulates the phase transition process and manages quenching defects of perovskite, enabling broad applicability for high-performance perovskite solar cells and scalable modules.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6587-6596
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00668F, Paper

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Ho Ming Ng, Bosen Zou, Aleksandr Sergeev, Yuang Fu, Pok Fung Chan, Zefan Yao, Qingyuan Wang, Zhengkai Li, Chun-Jen Su, U-Ser Jeng, Xiaotian Hu, Gang Li, Xinhui Lu, Kam Sing Wong, Zhi-Guo Zhang, Yiwang Chen, Wai-Yeung Wong, Han Yu, He Yan
Alkoxylated dimeric giant acceptor DYO-V boosts organic solar cell efficiency and stability, achieving 20.2% PCE outdoors and 28.1% indoors, offering a versatile strategy for durable, high-performance photovoltaics.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,7302-7312
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01162K, Paper

Yuan Gao, Lin-Yong Xu, Xingyu Chen, Biao Xiao, Wei Gao, Jianlong Xia, Rui Sun, Jie Min
Highly efficient ternary all-SMOSCs are developed by a donor alloy strategy, which deliver a record-high PCE of 18.51%. They also exhibit excellent operational stability and blend-thickness tolerance.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6667-6675
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01190F, Paper

Zhongwei Ge, Jiawei Qiao, Xiaoming Li, Runzheng Gu, Wenqing Zhang, Bohao Song, Guanghao Lu, Wei Ma, Xiaotao Hao, Yanming Sun
In this study, a high FF was achieved in thick-film OSCs with a thickness of 300 nm by balancing electron and hole transfer, yielding a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.92%.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6655-6666
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE06180B, Paper

Chungil Kim, Jiwon Song, Subin Lee, Chanwoo Kim, Jeongin Seo, Hangil Lee, Jaehwan Ko, Junseop Byeon, Hyung-Jun Song
The distribution of short-circuit current among individual perovskite solar cells significantly affects the performance of large-area modules. To minimize power losses, it is essential to control this variation within 2%.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c03213

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c03468

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c03146

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5973-5984
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00524H, Paper

Menghan Lu, Jike Ding, Quanxing Ma, Zuolin Zhang, Mengjia Li, Wenhuan Gao, Wenlong Mo, Boxue Zhang, Thierry Pauporté, Jiajia Zhang, Yang Wang, Jian-Xin Tang, Jiangzhao Chen, Cong Chen
This work reports a dual-site passivation of anionic and cationic defects through heterocycle functionalized amidinium cations for achieving highly efficient perovskite solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5926-5939
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01722J, Paper

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Shudi Qiu, Martin Majewski, Lirong Dong, Andreas Distler, Chaohui Li, Karen Forberich, Jingjing Tian, Naveen Harindu Hemasiri, Chao Liu, Jiyun Zhang, Fu Yang, Vincent M. Le Corre, Max Bibrack, Robin Basu, Anastasia Barabash, Jens Harting, Olivier J. J. Ronsin, Tian Du, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, Christoph J. Brabec
Guided by phase-field simulations, a pre-coated 2D perovskite layer enables the growth of void-free perovskite layers over one-micron-thick, achieving high-efficiency, fully printed solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5952-5960
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00851D, Paper

Mengjiong Chen, Zhenzhen Qin, Ziyang Zhang, Yanbo Wang, Liyuan Han
Gas-medium annealing simultaneously accomplished crystallization and surface passivation, contributing to high-quality perovskite films with much fewer defects from bulk to surface. A minimized energy loss of 0.29 eV was obtained for efficient PSCs.
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