PRX Energy - February 2024

PRX Energy View Email Online   Volume 3, Issue 1 (partial) January - March 2024   View Issue   Advertisement Congratulations to the 2024 Outstanding Referees In this year, 2024, 156 Outstanding Referees were selected from the 91,600 currently active referees. The honorees come from over 42 different countries and will be recognized at the upcoming March Meeting. Read more.     Advertisement Don't miss these exciting Physical Review Journals events at the 2024 APS March Meeting Sunday, March 3, 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. CT - Mastering the Art of Refereeing in Soft and Living Matter: Insights from the Editors of Physical Review (Registration required) Tuesday, March 5, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. CT - Physical Review Journals Editor Roundtables - discuss publishing with experts in several fields. Complimentary food and drinks served. All are welcome Tuesday, March 5, 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. CT - Physical Review Journals Referee Appreciation Event - celebrate the contributions of our referees. 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Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   Perspective Inductive and Capacitive Hysteresis of Current-Voltage Curves: Unified Structural Dynamics in Solar Energy Devices, Memristors, Ionic Transistors, and Bioelectronics Juan Bisquert PRX Energy 3, 011001 (2024) – Published 8 January 2024 This Perspective considers current-voltage hysteresis across a wide range of systems, including photovoltaics, memristors, and ion-conducting channels, and finds that all exhibit one of two primary hysteresis types.     Complex Structure of Molten FLiBe (2LiF–BeF2) Examined by Experimental Neutron Scattering, X-Ray Scattering, and Deep-Neural-Network Based Molecular Dynamics Sean Fayfar, Rajni Chahal, Haley Williams, D. Nathanael Gardner, Guiqiu Zheng, David Sprouster, Jörg C. Neuefeind, Dan Olds, Andrea Hwang, Joanna Mcfarlane, Ryan C. Gallagher, Mark Asta, Stephen Lam, Raluca O. Scarlat, and Boris Khaykovich PRX Energy 3, 013001 (2024) – Published 5 January 2024 Using neutrons and x-rays, along with large-scale molecular dynamics simulations that incorporate machine learning, the authors report the liquid structure of 2LiF-BeF2, a molten salt for next-generation nuclear reactors.     Population-Density Bounds for 100% Domestic Renewable Energy Generation Dorte Nørgaard Madsen, Jan Petter Hansen, and Jan Emblemsvåg PRX Energy 3, 013002 (2024) – Published 12 January 2024 By introducing a "One Hectare Country" model that supports a fully sustainable European-like lifestyle for one person, the authors find that the size is at least a factor of two too small; huge land areas are required to maintain the assumed standard of living with fully renewable energy.     Revealing the Bonding Nature and Electronic Structure of Early-Transition-Metal Dihydrides Curran Kalha, Laura E. Ratcliff, Giorgio Colombi, Christoph Schlueter, Bernard Dam, Andrei Gloskovskii, Tien-Lin Lee, Pardeep K. Thakur, Prajna Bhatt, Yujiang Zhu, Jürg Osterwalder, Francesco Offi, Giancarlo Panaccione, and Anna Regoutz PRX Energy 3, 013003 (2024) – Published 16 January 2024 By combining experiment and theory, this study unveils a direct link between the electronic states in metal hydrides and their enthalpy of formation, advancing our understanding and potential applications in energy materials, catalysis, and gas storage.     Quantifying Electrochemical Degradation in Single-Crystalline LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2–Graphite Pouch Cells through Operando X-Ray and Postmortem Investigations Ashok S. Menon, Nickil Shah, James A. Gott, Eleni Fiamegkou, Matthew J. W. Ogley, Galo J. Páez Fajardo, Naoum Vaenas, Ieuan Ellis, N. Ravichandran, P. Cloetens, D. Karpov, J.M. Warnett, Paul Malliband, David Walker, Geoff West, Melanie Loveridge, and Louis F.J. Piper PRX Energy 3, 013004 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024 Using lab-based operando X-ray and post-mortem techniques, researchers visualize the origins of electrochemical capacity fade under high-voltage conditions in pilot line single-crystalline LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2-graphite cells.     Complex Couplings - A Universal, Adaptive, and Bilinear Formulation of Power Grid Dynamics Anna Büttner and Frank Hellmann PRX Energy 3, 013005 (2024) – Published 7 February 2024 In a shift towards renewable energy, power grids are going through significant transformations. Here, the authors employ analytical tools from various fields to unveil a universal model that, despite its simplicity, robustly captures the complexities of the entire grid.     Grain-Boundary Structural Relaxation in Sb2Se3 Thin-Film Photovoltaics R.A. Lomas-Zapata, K.P. McKenna, Q.M. Ramasse, R.E. Williams, L.J. Phillips, K. Durose, J.D. Major, and B.G. Mendis PRX Energy 3, 013006 (2024) – Published 8 February 2024 Experiment and theory suggest that Sb2Se3 is intrinsically tolerant to defects at grain boundaries, a key requirement for highly efficient thin-film photovoltaics.     Featured in Physics Ternary Oxides of s- and p-Block Metals for Photocatalytic Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion Simon Gelin, Nicole E. Kirchner-Hall, Rowan R. Katzbaer, Monica J. Theibault, Yihuang Xiong, Wayne Zhao, Mohammed M. Khan, Eric Andrewlavage, Paul Orbe, Steven M. Baksa, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov, Quinn Campbell, Héctor Abruña, Raymond E. Schaak, and Ismaila Dabo PRX Energy 3, 013007 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 Synopsis:A Sunny Path to Green Hydrogen Computational materials design is combined with synthesis and electrochemical characterization to propose nine oxide semiconductors as water-splitting photocatalysts.     Predicting Thermochemical Equilibria with Interacting Defects: Sr1−xCexMnO3−δ Alloys for Water Splitting Anuj Goyal, Michael D. Sanders, Ryan P. O'Hayre, and Stephan Lany PRX Energy 3, 013008 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024 Thermochemical equilibria are predicted for water splitting redox processes for Sr-Ce-Mn oxide alloys by combining a first principles simulations study with a statistical mechanics-based approach.     Theory of Tribovoltaics: Direct Current Generation at a p-n Semiconductor Interface Morten Willatzen, Zhiwei Zhang, and Zhong Lin Wang PRX Energy 3, 013009 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 A quantum-mechanical model of tribovoltaics is developed and numerically verified, providing an understanding of direct current generation at a sliding p−n semiconductor interface.     Stability Criterion for Electrodeposition in Solid-State Batteries with Metallic Anodes Yuanpeng Liu, Jiawei Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Haowen Gao, Dongjiang Chen, Mingsheng Wang, and Changguo Wang PRX Energy 3, 013010 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024 To benefit material selection and design of solid electrolytes for high-energy-density batteries, molecular simulations are combined with in situ experiments to understand and provide guidance for achieving stable electrodeposition.     Stability Analysis of Electrical Microgrids and Their Control Systems O. Smith, S. Coombes, and R.D. O'Dea PRX Energy 3, 013011 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024 This work presents a versatile and efficient mathematical framework for analyzing the stability of a decentralized renewable power grid, allowing rapid benchmarking of control system prototypes.       American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2024 American Physical Society | All rights reserved   You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your preferences.