Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01934-2
M. V. Ramana
Nuclear power continues to pose economic and practical barriers to expanded deployment, argues M. V. Ramana.
拉玛纳认为，核能继续对扩大部署构成经济和实际障碍。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01960-0
Peter G. Bruce
Battery technology has advanced at extraordinary speed over the past decade, yet meeting the world’s accelerating electrification needs will require both continued evolution of lithium-ion systems and further progress in next-generation chemistries, writes Peter Bruce.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01870-1
Destenie Nock
Energy justice has shifted from the margins to become a central aspect of energy transitions research, argues Destenie Nock.
Destenie Nock认为，能源公正已经从边缘问题变成了能源转型研究的中心问题。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-026-01971-5
This issue marks ten years of Nature Energy, offering a moment to reflect on a decade of energy research and to look ahead at what comes next.
本期杂志标志着《自然能源》创刊十年，让我们有机会回顾十年来的能源研究，并展望未来。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01916-4
Jennifer Wilcox
After years of technical advances and billions in public funding, carbon capture’s promise now depends on creative alliances — between incumbents and innovators, across borders and sectors — to safeguard past investments and deliver lasting climate impact, writes Jennifer Wilcox.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01958-8
Jinghan Li, Chang Li, Bo Liu, Yuzhang Li, Oleg Borodin, Linda F. Nazar
Aqueous Zn2+/Zn||MnO2/Mn2+ batteries—operating via electrodeposition/dissolution—offer promising high-voltage, high-capacity grid-storage capabilities but require acidic conditions for MnO2/Mn2+ conversion, and these induce problematic zinc corrosion. Here we present a global approach that identifies deep eutectic aqueous–organic electrolytes that strategically disrupt water’s hydrogen-bonding network, simultaneously enhancing MnO2 reversibility at the cathode while enabling stable zinc cycling at the anode without water decomposition. Such non-flammable electrolytes regulate the cation solvation structure and phase of the deposited MnO2 and its morphology, promoting layered structures with enhanced ion-transport pathways that significantly improve stripping efficiency. These deep eutectics increase the oxygen evolution overpotential well above the MnO2 deposition potential, which completely suppresses unwanted O2 evolution. Moreover, they alter the local environment at the cathode interface to create localized interfacial pH gradients that influence critical processes, including optimizing proton transport and MnO2 stripping. Our Zn2+/Zn||MnO2/Mn2+ dual-electrode-free battery achieves high Coulombic efficiency for extended cycling (>5,000 cycles) without external acid addition, advancing high-energy-density zinc–manganese battery development through rational electrolyte design. Eutectic aqueous–organic electrolytes enable highly reversible zinc–manganese batteries without acid addition. By regulating the water-bonding network, beneficial manganese oxide phases are deposited and stripped while gas formation is suppressed, achieving ultraextended cycling.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-16DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01936-0
Mirjana Dimitrievska, Edgardo Saucedo, Stefaan De Wolf, Billy J. Stanbery, Veronica Bermudez Benito
The growing demand for photovoltaic (PV) technologies that are lightweight and flexible and can be integrated seamlessly into diverse applications has propelled interest in thin-film solar cells. Among these, Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 (CIGS) and metal halide perovskites have garnered significant attention in the past and present, respectively. Although CIGS reached commercial readiness after decades of refinement, its large-scale deployment was hindered by manufacturing complexity, scale-up challenges and a lack of coordination between materials, device design and production systems. Despite setting record efficiencies at an unprecedented pace perovskite solar cells now face similar challenges on their path to commercialization: ensuring long-term stability; translating laboratory performance to scalable architectures; and aligning with industrial realities. Here we revisit the CIGS experience not as a benchmark, but as a blueprint, highlighting how its successes and failures can inform a more deliberate and durable trajectory for perovskite PV. By bridging this historical perspective with the current frontier, we propose that the future of perovskites depends not only on continued innovation, but also on learning from past thin-film PV experiences to avoid repeating their pitfalls. Perovskite photovoltaics could benefit from insights gained through the longer history of other photovoltaic technologies. In this Perspective, Bermudez and colleagues examine how lessons from the successes and failures of copper indium gallium selenide solar cells can guide future progress.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-16DOI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01937-z
Chao Ye, Shuibin Tu, Shao-Jian Zhang, Chunsheng Wang, Shi-Zhang Qiao
Interphase chemistry between electrodes and electrolytes plays a key role in the performance of secondary batteries. Recent studies have revealed that interphase chemistry is closely correlated to the evolution of the interfacial solvation structure (ISS). However, complex ion–solvent interactions in the interfacial region in practical batteries make it challenging to understand the dynamics of the ISS using classical electric double layer models. Here we examine the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the ISS, including the interfacial coordination structure, ion migration and desolvation behaviour. By regulating these properties, the construction of anion- and additive-rich ISSs can facilitate the formation of highly conductive and robust solid–electrolyte interphases in moderately concentrated electrolytes, improving the Coulombic efficiency, stability windows and desolvation kinetics, even under extreme operating conditions. We highlight how interdisciplinary strategies that combine advanced characterization techniques with computational simulations powerfully resolve the dynamic evolution of the ISS at an atomistic level. Lessons from electrocatalysis, where electrolyte effects and interfacial structuring have been successfully deciphered, further illustrate how such approaches can inspire progress in understanding and harnessing the ISS for next-generation batteries. Ion–solvent interactions at battery interfaces share parallels with solvation effects in catalysis. This analysis examines how interfacial solvation structures influence interphase formation and charge transfer, offering insights into electrochemical behaviour under complex conditions.
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