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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00408

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5503-5510
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01369K, Paper

Sheng Fu, Nannan Sun, Shuaifeng Hu, Hao Chen, Xinxin Jiang, Yunfei Li, Xiaotian Zhu, Xuemin Guo, Wenxiao Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Andrey S. Vasenko, Junfeng Fang
5-AVAI, with its larger dipole and amphoteric nature, can effectively compensate for SAM-deficient interfaces and GB defects in WBG perovskite sub-cells, leading to efficient tandems.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,7082-7088
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01548K, Paper

Ping Fu, Dong Yang, Yihua Chen, Ruixue Lu, Md Azimul Haque, Yucheng Liu, Yaoyao Han, Hui Li, Ruotian Chen, Jieqiong Liu, Wei Qin, Luis Huerta Hernandez, Fengtao Fan, Kaifeng Wu, Derya Baran, Huanping Zhou, Can Li
A record power conversion efficiency of 27.17% was achieved in the photovoltaic cells under a temperature gradient of 10 °C, enabled by synergistic cooperation between photovoltaic and thermoelectric effects.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5811-5832
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00943J, Review Article

Kunjie Wang, Xingyu Cui, Jingxuan Zhao, Qing Wang, Xu Zhao
An understanding of the intrinsic relationship between defined atomic properties of metal-based electrocatalysts and interfacial hydrogen microenvironments in alkaline HOR/HER is provided.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6009-6018
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00845J, Paper

Yuandong Sun, Liang Wang, Dawei Gao, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Jingchao Cheng, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang
The intermolecular interactions and aggregation behaviors of NFAs are manipulated via extending their conjugated framework, towards suppressed excitonic static disorder, fibrillar morphology and reduced energy loss in their organic photovoltaics.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6899-6933
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04526B, Review Article

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Vijay C. Karade, Mingrui He, Zhaoning Song, Abasi Abudulimu, Yeonwoo Park, Donghoon Song, Yanfa Yan, Jin Hyeok Kim, Randy J. Ellingson, Jae Ho Yun, Xiaojing Hao, Seung Wook Shin, Mahesh P. Suryawanshi
This review highlights the potential of emerging inorganic chalcogenide–silicon tandem solar cells, which address efficiency and stability limitations of single-junction devices and offer a less-toxic, more stable alternative for tandem applications.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5287-5297
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00640F, Paper

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Jihoo Lim, Seungmin Lee, Hongjae Shim, Lei Wang, Hyeonah Cho, Jincheol Kim, Claudio Cazorla, Yong-Jin Kim, Hanul Min, Minwoo Lee, Xiaojing Hao, S. Ravi P. Silva, Jan Seidel, Dohyung Kim, Jun Hong Noh, Jae Sung Yun
Ferroelectric properties can be utilized for efficient charge carrier separation by spontaneous electric polarization.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6618-6627
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01110H, Paper

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Hui Li, Davide Regaldo, Chun-Sheng Jack Wu, Mirko Prato, Antonella Treglia, Heyong Wang, Wolfram Hempel, Michele Sessolo, Yang Zhou, Andrea Olivati, Annamaria Petrozza
Low-contact-loss and durable buried interface was engineering by a molecular hybridization strategy. The proton transfer from Me-4PACz to Histamine enables distinguished efficiency and operational stability of PSCs based on mix-halide perovskites.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5599-5609
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01486G, Paper

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Xuzheng Liu, Michael Rienäcker, Mohammad Gholipoor, Lingyi Fang, Tonghan Zhao, Benjamin Hacene, Julian Petermann, Ruijun Cai, Hang Hu, Thomas Feeney, Faranak Sadegh, Paul Fassl, Renjun Guo, Uli Lemmer, Robby Peibst, Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold
A thermal annealing treatment applied to the silicon bottom cell as well as a morphology regulation strategy of buried interface are employed to improve charge carrier management in perovskite/POLO-Si tandem solar cells, achieving a PCE of 31%.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6214-6223
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01525A, Paper

Yue Chen, Xiaopeng Duan, Junjie Zhang, Zhongwei Ge, Haisheng Ma, Xiaobo Sun, Huotian Zhang, Jiaxin Gao, Xuelin Wang, Xunchang Wang, Zheng Tang, Renqiang Yang, Feng Gao, Yanming Sun
A fused non-fullerene acceptor, Z-Tri, with a luminescent triphenylamine unit, forms a mixed phase with enhanced PLQY, lower ΔE_nr, and higher V_oc in ternary devices.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6297-6306
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00563A, Paper

Biao Shi, Pengfei Liu, Zetong Sunli, Wei Han, Cong Sun, Ying Liu, Yuan Luo, Jin Si, Pengcheng Du, Fu Zhang, Miao Yang, Yongcai He, Bo He, Dekun Zhang, Xiaona Du, Xixiang Xu, Rui Xia, Xueling Zhang, Yifeng Chen, Jifan Gao, Ying Zhao, Xiaodan Zhang
A halogen pre-homogenizing approach enables a perovskite/Si tandem module of 64.64 cm² achieving a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 27.1%.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6076-6084
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00735F, Paper

Seungon Jung, Yunjeong Jang, Hohyun Jung, Yujin Kim, Eunbin Son, Seulgi Jeong, Yihan Zhang, Joohoon Kang, Jeong Min Baik, Jianfeng Lu, Hyesung Park
TEMPOL serves as a radical scavenger that suppresses Sn²⁺ oxidation, facilitates controlled perovskite growth, and improves charge transport at the HTL/perovskite interface, thereby enhancing the performance and stability of Sn-based PSCs.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6273-6282
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01387A, Paper

Guanghui Xu, Jinsheng Li, Youze Zeng, Zhaoping Shi, Wei Qi, Kai Li, Meiling Xiao, Changpeng Liu, Wei Xing, Jianbing Zhu
The synergistic interplay between an Ni single-atom and an Ru₃Ni alloy nanocluster achieves superior hydrogen evolution activity in an alkaline medium.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6094-6105
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01604E, Paper

Xiaoqi Yu, Jintao Zhu, Lin Xie, Haotian Hu, Tongqiang Liu, Pengfei Ding, Xueliang Yu, Jinfeng Ge, Chengcheng Han, Wei Song, Ziyi Ge
The ability of asymmetric ternary components to regulate crystallization kinetics enables a trade-off between charge generation and recombination, achieving synchronized improvements in both V_OC and J_SC.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5632-5642
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE06038E, Paper

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Jing Li, Xiang Qiao, Bingchen He, Yuan Zhang, Subhajit Pal, Linchao Sun, Muhammad Bilal, Zhenhuang Su, Xingyu Gao, Joe Briscoe, Isaac Abrahams, Meng Li, Zhe Li, Yao Lu
The functional biomass additive TBA-Alg simultaneously improves the PCE, stability and lead immobility of lead halide perovskite solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6456-6529
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03084B, Review Article

Liangshuang Fei, Hainan Sun, Yu Li, Yuxing Gu, Wei Zhou, Zongping Shao
This study focuses exclusively on innovative electrocatalytic hydrogen production systems through water electrolysis, specifically addressing the inherent limitations of conventional approaches.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6237-6247
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00383K, Paper

Yinhua Lv, Chi Yang, Zhenhuang Su, Tianwei He, Ruohao Wang, Ruihao Chen, Xingyu Gao, Wen-Hua Zhang
A molecular integration strategy is proposed to identify a novel yet efficient Lewis base for effective defect passivation, thereby enabling the realization of high-performance p–i–n perovskite solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,6344-6365
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01504A, Review Article

Jingyu Zuo, Dexia Han, Huifeng Yao, Vakhobjon Kuvondikov, Long Ye
This review consolidates the latest advancements in stretchable organic photovoltaic (s-OPV) materials, providing a comprehensive overview of the field's progress.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5437-5447
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00189G, Paper

Boxin Jiao, Liguo Tan, Yiran Ye, Ningyu Ren, Minghao Li, Hang Li, Xiaoyi Li, Chenyi Yi
Parabanic acid serves to concurrently align perovskite crystal growth and passivate interface defects, enabling highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5356-5364
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00878F, Paper

Wendi Shi, Qiansai Han, Wenkai Zhao, Ruohan Wang, Longyu Li, Guangkun Song, Xin Chen, Guankui Long, Zhaoyang Yao, Yan Lu, Chenxi Li, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Chen
A dimer acceptor QD-1 with a large conjugated rigid skeleton is reported, showing low disorder, weak electro-photon coupling, and thus low non-radiative recombination loss. An efficiency of 20.19% is achieved for the QD-1-based ternary device.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5539-5551
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00605H, Paper

Yuhao Guo, Qinhui Guan, Xingjuan Li, Mengjun Zhao, Na Li, Zizhong Zhang, Guiqiang Fei, Tingjiang Yan
The catalyst derived from Prussian blue precursor, using the “internal and external cultivation” strategy, fully exploits the potential of each step of photogenerated carriers in photocatalytic CO₂ hydrogenation, effectively promoting CO production.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,4962-4970
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00458F, Paper

Yang Yang, Shuyuan Wan, Hang Wei, Lijun Yang, Zhiyuan Dai, Haoze Lu, Zhe Liu, Bo Chen, Ruihao Chen, Hongqiang Wang
By introducing diallyl disulfide to regulate and stabilize the perovskite films through intramolecular chemical rearrangement, the corresponding device achieved 26.08% of efficiency with improved photothermal stability.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,4787-4799
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00632E, Paper

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Luis Huerta Hernandez, Luis Lanzetta, Anna M. Kotowska, Ilhan Yavuz, Nikhil Kalasariya, Badri Vishal, Marti Gibert-Roca, Matthew Piggott, David J. Scurr, Stefaan De Wolf, Martin Stolterfoht, Derya Baran
In this work, we demonstrate that a high concentration of hole carriers and tin vacancies facilitates the migration of iodide, enhancing ionic conductivity and mobile ion density in Sn-based halide perovskites.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,7023-7033
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00689A, Paper

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Yongpeng Liu, Celine Wing See Yeung, Erwin Reisner
An organic–inorganic photoelectrochemical (PEC) tandem device for converting polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics and carbon dioxide (CO₂) to formate under simulated solar irradiation.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,4982-4995
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00101C, Paper

Junwei Dong, Yinfeng Li, Chentong Liao, Xiaopeng Xu, Liyang Yu, Ruipeng Li, Qiang Peng
Two nonfullerene acceptors with trifluoromethyl end-capped alkyl side chains increased the dielectric constant and optimized optoelectronic properties, achieving an impressive power conversion efficiency of 20.80% in organic solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,5378-5388
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01165E, Paper

Junjie Zhang, Xiaopeng Duan, Xiaoming Li, Guangkuo Dai, Jiawei Deng, Xunchang Wang, Jiawei Qiao, Hanzhi Wu, Liming Liu, Haodong Huang, Sha Liu, Jun Yan, Huotian Zhang, Xiao-Tao Hao, Renqiang Yang, Feng Gao, Yanming Sun
A series of high fluorescence triphenylamine halides are proposed as solid additives to reduce the static disorder and thus improve the luminescence performance of the active layer to suppress non-radiative recombination loss.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,4348-4361
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00020C, Paper

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Liao Shen, Kaiwen Sun, Fengshuo Xi, Zhitao Jiang, Shaoyuan Li, Yanfeng Wang, Zhongqiu Tong, Jijun Lu, Wenhui Ma, Martin A. Green, Xiaojing Hao
A high-performance self-supporting electrode was developed that converts photovoltaic waste silicon into amorphous silicon nanowires.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00065

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,4431-4446
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04647A, Paper

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Seán R. Kavanagh, Rasmus S. Nielsen, John L. Hansen, Rasmus S. Davidsen, Ole Hansen, Alp E. Samli, Peter C. K. Vesborg, David O. Scanlon, Aron Walsh
Intrinsic point defects are found to be inactive for electron–hole recombination, while extrinsic impurities do not contribute significantly to doping, pointing to extended defects and interfaces as limiting factors in selenium solar cells.
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18,4470-4479
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE06155A, Paper

Jian Liu, Ruohan Wang, Longyu Li, Wenkai Zhao, Zhaochen Suo, Wendi Shi, Guankui Long, Zhaoyang Yao, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Chen
An atom-level asymmetric molecular design strategy was proposed to develop and synthesize two asymmetric acceptors, CH-Bzq and CH-Bzq-Br. The PM6:CH-Bzq-Br-based binary device achieves an impressive efficiency of 19.42%.
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