Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01653-2
Yunlong Li, Lichang Yin, Jianan Liu, Xiaolan Qin, Xingyu Lu, Xueya Dai, Ke Qi, Yongqiang Yang, Wei Qi, Gang Liu
Integration of efficient value-added electrochemical oxidation with hydrogen evolution reaction presents a promising sustainable route for both hydrogen energy and the electrochemical refinery industry. However, the serious competition of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with targeted oxidation reactions at high current densities forms a substantial hurdle for industrial application. Here we report a straightforward approach to inhibit OER side reaction by introducing a trace amount of Cu2+ into the electrolyte for efficient glycerol oxidation reaction (GOR). Such a strategy enables improved Faradaic efficiency of glycerol to the target product formic acid from 62.2% (without Cu2+ addition) to 99.3% at a high current density of 800 mA cm−2. The underlying mechanism is that a reversible redox process of Cu2+/Cu+ fully suppresses the formation of OER-active-phase hydroxy peroxide on the surface of GOR-active Co3O4 catalyst. The current strategy also applies to other important electrochemical oxidation reactions, paving the way for developing efficient non-OER electrochemical oxidation reactions for various chemical conversion processes. Glycerol electro-oxidation to valuable chemicals could play an important role in sustainable chemical processes. Here the authors realize near-unity Faradaic efficiency for such reaction at an industrially relevant current density, by introducing a trace amount of copper ions to electrolytes.
高效增值电化学氧化与析氢反应相结合，为氢能和电化学炼化工业提供了一条有前景的可持续发展途径。然而，在高电流密度下，析氧反应（OER）与靶向氧化反应的激烈竞争对工业应用构成了重大障碍。在这里，我们报告了一种直接的方法，通过引入微量的Cu2+到有效的甘油氧化反应（GOR）的电解质抑制OER副反应。在800 mA cm−2的高电流密度下，这种策略可以将甘油对目标产物甲酸的法拉第效率从62.2%（未添加Cu2+）提高到99.3%。其潜在机制是Cu2+/Cu+的可逆氧化还原过程充分抑制了氧化还原活性Co3O4催化剂表面oer活性相羟基过氧化物的形成。目前的策略也适用于其他重要的电化学氧化反应，为开发各种化学转化过程的高效非oer电化学氧化反应铺平了道路。甘油电氧化制有价化学品在可持续化学过程中发挥着重要作用。在这里，作者通过向电解质中引入微量铜离子，实现了这种反应在工业相关电流密度下的接近统一的法拉第效率。
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Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, fluctuate on timescales of seconds to hours. Harnessing such intermittent energy to drive chemical synthesis represents a major challenge, as conventional 3d-block metal catalysts are prone to degradation even under small variations in operating potential. Here we report an electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction system that is tolerant to voltage fluctuations through the design of catalytic pathways. By leveraging the redox chemistry of manganese oxide, we integrated the Guyard reaction (4Mn2+ + Mn7+ → 5Mn3+) as a regeneration pathway into the catalytic cycle. Unlike other 3d-block metal catalysts, which rapidly degrade under fluctuating conditions, the constructed manganese oxide system shows resilience to voltage fluctuations by alternating between decomposition and regeneration. When the voltage is switched between 1.68 and 3.00 V repeatedly, the catalyst can maintain an oxygen evolution reaction at pH 2 for more than 2,000 h, highlighting the importance of pathway design for sustainable energy conversion from intermittent renewable sources. One major problem with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power is their intermittent supply. Here the authors present an Earth-abundant manganese oxide electrocatalyst that is resilient to voltage fluctuations and maintains oxygen evolution reaction activities for 2,000 h.
{"title":"Oxygen evolution electrocatalysis resilient to voltage fluctuations","authors":"Ailong Li, Hideshi Ooka, Shuang Kong, Kiyohiro Adachi, Yuchen Zhang, Kazuna Fushimi, Satoru Hamamoto, Masaki Oura, Sun Hee Kim, Daisuke Hashizume, Ryuhei Nakamura","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01665-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01665-y","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, fluctuate on timescales of seconds to hours. Harnessing such intermittent energy to drive chemical synthesis represents a major challenge, as conventional 3d-block metal catalysts are prone to degradation even under small variations in operating potential. Here we report an electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction system that is tolerant to voltage fluctuations through the design of catalytic pathways. By leveraging the redox chemistry of manganese oxide, we integrated the Guyard reaction (4Mn2+ + Mn7+ → 5Mn3+) as a regeneration pathway into the catalytic cycle. Unlike other 3d-block metal catalysts, which rapidly degrade under fluctuating conditions, the constructed manganese oxide system shows resilience to voltage fluctuations by alternating between decomposition and regeneration. When the voltage is switched between 1.68 and 3.00 V repeatedly, the catalyst can maintain an oxygen evolution reaction at pH 2 for more than 2,000 h, highlighting the importance of pathway design for sustainable energy conversion from intermittent renewable sources. One major problem with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power is their intermittent supply. Here the authors present an Earth-abundant manganese oxide electrocatalyst that is resilient to voltage fluctuations and maintains oxygen evolution reaction activities for 2,000 h.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 12","pages":"1533-1540"},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01665-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145772837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01658-x
Juanjuan Zhao, Baichuan Mo, Nicholas S. Caros, Jinhua Zhao
Prevailing strategies for commuting efficiency focus predominantly on land-use and transportation policies, whereas research on the environmental benefits of housing reallocation strategies to mitigate excess commuting remains critically underexplored. Here this study proposes an information-enabled housing exchange framework and quantifies the potential reduction of commuting-related carbon emissions it can achieve. Leveraging housing and travel survey data from Beijing (n = 2,032), Munich (n = 3,131) and Singapore (n = 7,418), at the household level, our analysis reveals that commuting distances could be reduced by approximately 10.49%–12.70%, corresponding to CO2 emissions reductions of 11.33%, 12.09% and 13.42%, respectively. Crucially, strategic relocation of the households with the 5% highest carbon reduction potential could yield more than 50% of total achievable emissions reduction. These results demonstrate that enhancing housing market efficiency through information transparency can generate substantial environmental co-benefits. The integration of conventional policies with this approach would enable a viable pathway to sustainable urban development. Little is known about the environmental benefits of housing reallocation. This study fills the gap, presenting an information-enabled housing exchange framework that, in the case of Beijing, Munich and Singapore, could substantially reduce the carbon emissions from commuting.
{"title":"Housing exchange framework to reduce carbon emissions from commuting","authors":"Juanjuan Zhao, Baichuan Mo, Nicholas S. Caros, Jinhua Zhao","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01658-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01658-x","url":null,"abstract":"Prevailing strategies for commuting efficiency focus predominantly on land-use and transportation policies, whereas research on the environmental benefits of housing reallocation strategies to mitigate excess commuting remains critically underexplored. Here this study proposes an information-enabled housing exchange framework and quantifies the potential reduction of commuting-related carbon emissions it can achieve. Leveraging housing and travel survey data from Beijing (n = 2,032), Munich (n = 3,131) and Singapore (n = 7,418), at the household level, our analysis reveals that commuting distances could be reduced by approximately 10.49%–12.70%, corresponding to CO2 emissions reductions of 11.33%, 12.09% and 13.42%, respectively. Crucially, strategic relocation of the households with the 5% highest carbon reduction potential could yield more than 50% of total achievable emissions reduction. These results demonstrate that enhancing housing market efficiency through information transparency can generate substantial environmental co-benefits. The integration of conventional policies with this approach would enable a viable pathway to sustainable urban development. Little is known about the environmental benefits of housing reallocation. This study fills the gap, presenting an information-enabled housing exchange framework that, in the case of Beijing, Munich and Singapore, could substantially reduce the carbon emissions from commuting.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 11","pages":"1259-1269"},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01658-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145547302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl/BrPAHs) are emerging organic pollutants that pose severe risks to both the natural environment and public health. However, the limited understanding of their global emission sources and levels hinders effective control measures. Here we present a comprehensive global inventory and source attribution analysis of Cl/BrPAH emissions from 11 key industrial sectors. By integrating emission data with machine learning models, we estimate that global industrial Cl/BrPAH emissions in 2018 were 5,143 kg (94.3% ClPAHs and 5.7% BrPAHs) across 184 countries. Emission hotspots, in terms of total estimated Cl/BrPAH emissions, were concentrated in Oceania, East Asia and Latin America, collectively accounting for over 66% of the global total emissions. Iron ore sintering was identified as the largest industrial source (86.1% of total emissions). These findings can facilitate policy-making and the development of mitigation strategies for Cl/BrPAH emissions, and eventually contribute to greener industries. Understanding the emission patterns of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl/BrPAHs), a group of persistent organic pollutants, is critical to control them. This study presents a global inventory and source attribution analysis of Cl/BrPAH emissions.
{"title":"Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons","authors":"Yueyao Yang, Yahui Liu, Zhefu Yu, Guohua Zhu, Bingcheng Lin, Yunfeng Ma, Guorui Liu, Rong Jin, Minghui Zheng","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01656-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01656-z","url":null,"abstract":"Chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl/BrPAHs) are emerging organic pollutants that pose severe risks to both the natural environment and public health. However, the limited understanding of their global emission sources and levels hinders effective control measures. Here we present a comprehensive global inventory and source attribution analysis of Cl/BrPAH emissions from 11 key industrial sectors. By integrating emission data with machine learning models, we estimate that global industrial Cl/BrPAH emissions in 2018 were 5,143 kg (94.3% ClPAHs and 5.7% BrPAHs) across 184 countries. Emission hotspots, in terms of total estimated Cl/BrPAH emissions, were concentrated in Oceania, East Asia and Latin America, collectively accounting for over 66% of the global total emissions. Iron ore sintering was identified as the largest industrial source (86.1% of total emissions). These findings can facilitate policy-making and the development of mitigation strategies for Cl/BrPAH emissions, and eventually contribute to greener industries. Understanding the emission patterns of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl/BrPAHs), a group of persistent organic pollutants, is critical to control them. This study presents a global inventory and source attribution analysis of Cl/BrPAH emissions.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 12","pages":"1582-1591"},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145772839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01647-0
Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Antonio Bontempi
Oil and gas companies have claimed to be part of the transition to renewable energy. Our analysis of the energy assets of 250 of the largest oil and gas companies finds a marginal contribution to global renewable energy deployment and that renewable generation represents a tiny proportion of the total energy production of these companies. This study empirically legitimizes doubts about the commitment of the industry to transition to low-carbon energy production. The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the total energy production by the biggest companies globally.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01664-z
Overcoming the trade-off between the aesthetic requirements and cooling efficiency of passive radiative cooling materials is challenging. Now, composites that use the photoluminescence of rare-earth-doped phosphors to achieve efficient sub-ambient cooling and vibrant colours are demonstrated.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01621-w
Chunsheng Wang
All-solid-state lithium batteries can offer high energy density and safety but suffer from high interfacial resistance owing to the formation of interfacial voids. Now, a self-adaptive interphase has been developed that maintains intimate contact between the lithium metal anode and solid electrolyte without external pressure.
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All-solid-state lithium metal (Li°) batteries (ASSLMBs) are a promising next-generation energy storage technology due to their use of non-flammable solid electrolytes for enhanced safety and the potential for higher energy density. However, void formation and evolution at the interface between anode and solid electrolyte remains a major challenge, leading to accelerated performance degradation. Departing from traditional interfacial design strategies, here we introduce dynamically adaptive interphases, formed by controllable migration of pre-installed anions in solid electrolytes, to operate ASSLMBs stably under low external pressure. The interphases adapt to the Li° anode volume changes, maintaining close physical contact between the Li° anode and ‘rigid’ solid electrolyte under low or zero external pressure. The dynamically adaptive interphase enables Li° full cells to deliver excellent rate performance and 90.7% of capacity retention after 2,400 cycles at a current density of 1.25 mA cm−2. Notably, pouch cells with zero external pressure are assembled with 74.4% of capacity retention after 300 cycles. The present work resolves the critical issue of the continuous solid–solid contact loss between Li° anodes and high-modulus solid electrolytes, advancing the practical deployment of ASSLMBs as high-energy, sustainable electrochemical storage systems. All-solid-state batteries require external high pressure for good contact between the solid electrolyte and electrodes. Here the authors introduce iodine anions into electrolytes to form interphases that adapt to morphology at the interface, lifting the dependence on high pressure.
全固态锂金属（Li°）电池（asslmb）是一种很有前途的下一代储能技术，因为它们使用不易燃的固体电解质来提高安全性和更高的能量密度。然而，阳极和固体电解质界面上的空洞形成和演变仍然是一个主要挑战，导致性能加速下降。与传统的界面设计策略不同，本文引入了动态自适应界面，通过固体电解质中预安装阴离子的可控迁移形成界面，使asslmb在低外部压力下稳定运行。界面相适应Li°阳极体积的变化，在低或零外部压力下保持Li°阳极和“刚性”固体电解质之间的紧密物理接触。动态自适应间期使Li°满电池在1.25 mA cm−2的电流密度下，经过2400次循环后，能够提供出色的倍率性能和90.7%的容量保持率。值得注意的是，零外部压力的袋状电池在300次循环后的容量保留率为74.4%。本工作解决了Li°阳极与高模量固体电解质之间连续固-固接触损耗的关键问题，推进了asslmb作为高能量、可持续的电化学存储系统的实际部署。全固态电池需要外部高压才能使固体电解质和电极之间良好接触。在这里，作者将碘阴离子引入电解质中，形成适应界面形态的界面相，从而消除了对高压的依赖。
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Pub Date : 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01657-y
Yang Fu, Xue Ma, Xiao-Wen Zhang, Ze Li, Chuyao Wang, Kaixin Lin, Yiying Zhou, Aiqiang Pan, Xu Chen, Xin Li, Wenqi Wang, Chui Ting Kwok, Yi-Hao Zhu, Xiao Xue, Xin Zhao, Andrey L. Rogach, Longnan Li, Wei Li, Chi Yan Tso
Passive radiative cooling offers a sustainable solution to reduce carbon emissions in space cooling by simultaneously reflecting sunlight and emitting thermal radiation. However, the super-white property of conventional passive radiative cooling materials poses challenges for large-scale urban applications by conflicting with aesthetic requirements and neglecting impacts on urban microclimate and pedestrian thermal and visual comfort. Here inspired by the biological photoadaptation of coral, we present photoluminescence-based aesthetic composites as innovative urban skins that harness the enhanced light conversion of rare-earth-doped phosphors while decoupling from light-scattering-based whiteness, providing cool colours with improved urban compatibility. These composites demonstrate effective spectral reflectance of over 100% and peak reflectance up to 141% in their emission regions, despite a moderate overall solar reflectance (90.2–93.2%). With vivid yet angle-insensitive green, yellow and red appearances, the composites achieve subambient temperature reductions of 2.2–3.7 °C compared with ambient air and 6.1–7.9 °C relative to their non-photoluminescent counterparts. Moreover, their moderate whiteness alleviates excessive thermal and visual stress induced by trapping of sunlight in urban environments. Featuring excellent durability, compatibility and stability, these composites offer a scalable solution for energy-efficient and aesthetically pleasing radiative cooling in architecture, textiles and beyond, advancing passive radiative cooling technologies towards diverse real-world implementations. Radiative cooling is an emerging technology for cooling with reduced energy consumption. Here the authors present photoluminescent composites that combine subambient cooling with aesthetic colour, hydrophobicity and durability.
{"title":"Photoluminescent radiative cooling for aesthetic and urban comfort","authors":"Yang Fu, Xue Ma, Xiao-Wen Zhang, Ze Li, Chuyao Wang, Kaixin Lin, Yiying Zhou, Aiqiang Pan, Xu Chen, Xin Li, Wenqi Wang, Chui Ting Kwok, Yi-Hao Zhu, Xiao Xue, Xin Zhao, Andrey L. Rogach, Longnan Li, Wei Li, Chi Yan Tso","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01657-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01657-y","url":null,"abstract":"Passive radiative cooling offers a sustainable solution to reduce carbon emissions in space cooling by simultaneously reflecting sunlight and emitting thermal radiation. However, the super-white property of conventional passive radiative cooling materials poses challenges for large-scale urban applications by conflicting with aesthetic requirements and neglecting impacts on urban microclimate and pedestrian thermal and visual comfort. Here inspired by the biological photoadaptation of coral, we present photoluminescence-based aesthetic composites as innovative urban skins that harness the enhanced light conversion of rare-earth-doped phosphors while decoupling from light-scattering-based whiteness, providing cool colours with improved urban compatibility. These composites demonstrate effective spectral reflectance of over 100% and peak reflectance up to 141% in their emission regions, despite a moderate overall solar reflectance (90.2–93.2%). With vivid yet angle-insensitive green, yellow and red appearances, the composites achieve subambient temperature reductions of 2.2–3.7 °C compared with ambient air and 6.1–7.9 °C relative to their non-photoluminescent counterparts. Moreover, their moderate whiteness alleviates excessive thermal and visual stress induced by trapping of sunlight in urban environments. Featuring excellent durability, compatibility and stability, these composites offer a scalable solution for energy-efficient and aesthetically pleasing radiative cooling in architecture, textiles and beyond, advancing passive radiative cooling technologies towards diverse real-world implementations. Radiative cooling is an emerging technology for cooling with reduced energy consumption. Here the authors present photoluminescent composites that combine subambient cooling with aesthetic colour, hydrophobicity and durability.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 11","pages":"1328-1339"},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145547322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01673-y
Bo Xu, Zhanwei Liu, Shuyue Yan, Rafael J. P. Schmitt, Xiaogang He
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