PRX Energy - March 2023

PRX Energy View Email Online   Volume 2, Issue 1 January - March 2023   View Issue   Advertisement PRX Life is Open for Submissions! PRX Life, the first multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of biological organization, is now open for submissions! Take advantage of Gold Open Access for your publication with zero article publication charges until 2024. Submit your research today! Don't forget to sign up to receive alerts and follow the journal on Twitter.     Advertisement Discuss canopy elastic turbulence live The Physical Review Journal Club returns April 28 with an exclusive conversation with Charlotte de Blois (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon: Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France) and colleagues on their recently published Physical Review Fluids paper: "Canopy elastic turbulence: Spontaneous formation of waves in beds of slender microposts." Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement APS Prizes and Awards - Nominations Now Open APS is seeking nominations for all APS Honors, recognizing outstanding achievements in physics. Nominate a colleague for APS Fellowship, Prizes, and Awards. They are open to all members of the scientific community. Please consider nominating deserving colleagues. Learn more.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   Evidence of Polaron Formation in Halide Perovskites via Carrier Effective Mass Measurements Di Bao, Qing Chang, Bingbing Chen, Xiaoxuan Chen, Handong Sun, Yeng Ming Lam, Daming Zhao, Jian-Xin Zhu, and Elbert E.M. Chia PRX Energy 2, 013001 (2023) – Published 2 February 2023 A combination of transient spectroscopy techniques provides an estimate of the time-resolved effective carrier mass and carrier-phonon coupling constant in a photovoltaic absorber, here applied to lead-halide perovskites.     Light Harvesting Enhanced by Quantum Ratchet States Nicholas Werren, Will Brown, and Erik M. Gauger PRX Energy 2, 013002 (2023) – Published 9 February 2023 A theoretical study of bio-inspired ring systems demonstrates optical ratcheting as a means to enhance efficiencies of solar energy harvesting devices.     Revisiting the Storage Capacity Limit of Graphite Battery Anodes: Spontaneous Lithium Overintercalation at Ambient Pressure Cristina Grosu, Chiara Panosetti, Steffen Merz, Peter Jakes, Stefan Seidlmayer, Sebastian Matera, Rüdiger-A. Eichel, Josef Granwehr, and Christoph Scheurer PRX Energy 2, 013003 (2023) – Published 1 March 2023 Unexpected experimental and computational evidence of spontaneous lithium overintercalation challenges the currently accepted upper capacity limit of graphite battery anodes.     Relevance of Long Diffusion Lengths for Efficient Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Samah Akel, Ashish Kulkarni, Uwe Rau, and Thomas Kirchartz PRX Energy 2, 013004 (2023) – Published 9 March 2023 Carrier diffusion length is not a reliable indicator of performance in some halide perovskite solar cells; instead, experiments and modeling show that properties of the carrier transport layers limit the performance.     Oxygen-Redox Activity in Non-Lithium-Excess Tungsten-Doped LiNiO2 Cathode A.S. Menon, B.J. Johnston, S.G. Booth, L. Zhang, K. Kress, B.E. Murdock, G. Paez Fajardo, N.N. Anthonisamy, N. Tapia-Ruiz, S. Agrestini, M. Garcia-Fernandez, K. Zhou, P.K. Thakur, T.L. Lee, A.J. Nedoma, S.A. Cussen, and L.F.J. Piper PRX Energy 2, 013005 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023 An experimental study reveals that the same oxidized O2− species appear in conventional layered cathodes as in oxygen-redox-active alkali-excess cathodes.     Energy Conversion Efficiency of the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect Andreas Pusch, Udo Römer, Dimitrie Culcer, and Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes PRX Energy 2, 013006 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023 Energy conversion efficiency limits for the bulk photovoltaic effect, a mechanism for conversion of light into electricity in solids, are formulated and are more stringent than the Shockley Queisser limit.     Theory of Cation Solvation and Ionic Association in Nonaqueous Solvent Mixtures Zachary A.H. Goodwin, Michael McEldrew, Boris Kozinsky, and Martin Z. Bazant PRX Energy 2, 013007 (2023) – Published 23 March 2023 A simple theory is developed to understand the underlying physical principles of competitive ionic aggregation and solvation for electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries.     Iodine Vacancies do not Cause Nonradiative Recombination in Halide Perovskites Jingda Zhang, Xie Zhang, Mark E. Turiansky, and Chris G. Van de Walle PRX Energy 2, 013008 (2023) – Published 24 March 2023 A systematic first-principles study shows that the iodine vacancy does not lead to strong nonradiative losses in halide perovskites as commonly believed; thus, performance optimization strategies for perovskite solar cells should focus on other defects.     Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Wind-Farm Power Prediction: Toward Interpretability and Generalizability Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, Alexandros Iosifidis, and Mahdi Abkar PRX Energy 2, 013009 (2023) – Published 30 March 2023 A machine-learning model is developed and used to predict the performance of individual wind turbines in wind farms; the strategy leads to an accurate, lightweight, and generalizable data-driven model for wind-farm power prediction.       American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2023 American Physical Society | All rights reserved   You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. 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