PERSPECTIVE
Fully autonomous discovery of new materials could rapidly accelerate the development of better batteries, solar cells, high-power electronics, and more. This Perspective highlights current limitations in the autonomous identification of truly new materials and identifies bottlenecks where attention should be focused.
Josh Leeman et al.
PRX Energy 3, 011002 (2024)
NEW ARTICLE
Overcoming the limited availability of power network data is key to ensuring power grid reliability and sustainability. Using an Exponential Random Graph model, a versatile method is introduced for creating synthetic power grids that capture complex topological features of real grids with high accuracy.
Francesco Giacomarra, Gianmarco Bet, and Alessandro Zocca
PRX Energy 3, 023005 (2024)
NEW ARTICLE
Combined experimental and theoretical studies on the bulk photovoltaic effect in a van der Waals ferroelectric material reveal decoupling of the photocurrent and spontaneous polarization directions, which could have implications for photoelectric applications.
Yinxin Bai et al.
PRX Energy 3, 023004 (2024)
NEW ARTICLE
Toward enhancing performance in reservoir-free solid-state batteries, confocal imaging experiments are combined with meso-scale modeling to unveil vertical and horizontal growth mechanisms at varying temperatures of lithium metal at an agyrodite solid electrolyte|stainless steel interface.
Min-Gi Jeong et al.
PRX Energy 3, 023003 (2024)
NEW ARTICLE
Varying the thickness of a CdSe layer affects the structure and chemistry of CdTe solar cells; thicker CdSe layers cause over-alloying of Se and result in a significant drop in photocurrent.
T.F.S. Altamimi et al.
PRX Energy 3, 023002 (2024)
NEW ARTICLE
Toward understanding a relationship between the shapes of electrochemical impedance plots and volcano plots for electrocatalytic activity, a systematic mathematical analysis of electrocatalytic reactions is presented and compared to experimental data.
Jun Huang
PRX Energy 3, 023001 (2024)
PERSPECTIVE
In the pursuit of advancing particle physics and gaining deeper insights into the Higgs boson, proposals for electron-positron colliders are being examined. This Perspective takes a closer look at one such collider, the Cool Copper Collider, and introduces strategies aimed at minimizing its carbon footprint, while also conducting a thoughtful comparison with other Higgs factories.
Martin Breidenbach et al.
PRX Energy 2, 047001 (2023)