Editors' selection

Read the latest selection of articles by our editors.

• The TWh challenge: Next generation batteries for energy storage and electric vehicles Jun Liu | Jie Xiao | Jihui Yang | Wei Wang | Yuyan Shao | Ping Liu | M. Stanley Whittingham

• Overall water splitting: What’s next? Takashi Hisatomi | Kazunari Domen

• Perovskite solar cell developments, what’s next? Qiang Fu | Alex K.Y. Jen

• What matters in engineering next-generation rechargeable Zn-air batteries? Qian Lu | Xiaohong Zou | Yunfei Bu | Liang An | Ying Wang | Zongping Shao

• Designing lithium-ion batteries for recycle: The role of adhesives Sean Scott | Zayd Islam | Jack Allen | Tanongsak Yingnakorn | Ali Alflakian | Jamie Hathaway | Alireza Rastegarpanah | Gavin D.J. Harper | Emma Kendrick | Paul A. Anderson | Jacqueline Edge | Laura Lander | Andrew P. Abbott

• Lead-free perovskite solar cells, what's next? Xinhui Luo | Xiao Liu | Liyuan Han

• Electrolyte science, what’s next? Seongjae Ko | Norio Takenaka | Atsushi Kitada | Atsuo Yamada

• Dry battery electrode processing, what's next? Benjamin Schumm | Stefan Kaskel

• Wind energy value and deep decarbonization design, what’s next? Eric Loth

• Reducing the carbon foot-print of lithium-ion batteries, what’s next? Leopold Peiseler | Vanessa Wood | Tobias S. Schmidt

• Flexibility provisions through local energy communities: A review Pavani Ponnaganti | Rakesh Sinha | Jayakrishnan R. Pillai | Birgitte Bak-Jensen

• 2D graphdiyne, what’s next? Siao Chen | Yurui Xue | Yuliang Li

• Obtention and characterization of nano bio-hydroxyapatite particles by combined hydrothermal alkaline and ultrasonic wet milling methods Luis F. Zubieta-Otero | Mario E. Rodriguez-Garcia

• Nanostructure-dependent indentation fracture toughness of metal-organic framework monoliths Michele Tricarico | Jin-Chong Tan

• Electrolytes for better and safer batteries: Liquid, solid or frameworked, what's next? Jianguo Sun | Hao Yuan | Jing Yang | Yong-Wei Zhang | Prof. John Wang

• Semiconductor nanowire, what’s next II? Peidong Yang

• Green solvent for lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment: An overview of the performance of low transition temperature mixtures for enhanced bio-conversion Jung Lin Wong | Sabeeha Nushrat Bibi Aisha Khadaroo | Jonathan Lin Yang Cheng | Jiuan Jing Chew | Deni Shidqi Khaerudini | Jaka Sunarso

• Template-free synthesis of water-vapor stable porous 3D boron nitride Tim Jähnichen | Laura Gehrke | Leon Rasmussen | Christian Bläker | Christoph Pasel | Reinhard Denecke | Dieter Bathen | Dirk Enke

• High-efficiency InAs/GaAs quantum dot intermediate band solar cell achieved through current constraint engineering Tomah Sogabe | Yasushi Shoji | Naoya Miyashita | Daniel J. Farrell | Kodai Shiba | Hwen-Fen Hong | Yoshitaka Okada

• Canola oil transesterification for biodiesel production using potassium and strontium supported on calcium oxide catalysts synthesized from oyster shell residues M.A. Hernández-Martínez | J.A. Rodriguez | G. Chavez-Esquivel | D. Ángeles Beltrán | J. A. Tavizón - Pozos

• Carbon capture and utilization via electrochemistry, what’s next? Yuhou Pei | Bing Zhang | Yingying Lu

• Optoelectronic applications of surface acoustic waves in visible and infrared wavelengths Dong-Qing Wang | Tian-Rui Cui | Zhen Li | Hou-Fang Liu | Yi Yang | Tian-Ling Ren

• Extended-gate field-effect transistor chemo- and biosensors: State of the art and perspectives Željko Janićijević | Trang-Anh Nguyen-Le | Larysa Baraban

• Continuous production of O2-free enriched CO2 from ambient air using moisture swing sorbents Shinta Miyazaki | Masaki Yoshihara | Takashi Toyao | Zen Maeno | Ken-ichi Shimizu

• Redox chemistry in solid catalysts for regulating oxygen electrode working mechanism in aqueous electrolytes, what’s next? Junyuan Xu | Zhangquan Peng

• Current updated review on preparation of polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery and biomedical applications Harish Bhardwaj | Rajendra Kumar Jangde

• Self-supporting scaffolds with lithiophilic gradient and polar functional groups for stable Li-S full batteries Ting Meng | Zeyu Geng | Yong Gao | Fei Ma | Xiaohan Wang | Jipeng Chen | Haifeng Zhang | Cao Guan

• Recent advances in targeted drug delivery using metal-organic frameworks: toxicity and release kinetics Sanjeev Gautam | Ishita Lakhanpal | Lidiya Sonowal | Navdeep Goyal

• Nanotechnology in solid state batteries, what’s next? Yu-Han Zhang | Lin-Rong Wu | Jun Ma | Guanglei Cui