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We have reviews covering:
🚜 Agrivoltaics
♻️ Life cycle assessment
☀️Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
💧Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier
We have reviews covering:
🚜 Agrivoltaics
♻️ Life cycle assessment
☀️Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
💧Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier
ICYMI: Rapid decarbonization requires industrial efficiency
Rapid decarbonization requires industrial efficiency - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
The potential of efficiency to support decarbonization is underestimated and overlooked relative to more expensive and intensive actions. Implementing resource and energy efficiency strategies in industry could deliver rapid and cost-effective decarbonization.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
ICYMI: Rapid decarbonization requires industrial efficiency
New Online: Quantum magnetic microscopy for advancing batteries
Quantum magnetic microscopy for advancing batteries
Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00124-3Fardin Ghaffari-Tabrizi explains how scanning nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry can be used to improve battery materials.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New Online: Quantum magnetic microscopy for advancing batteries
ICYMI: New Online: Publisher Correction: Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment
Publisher Correction: Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment
Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00127-0Publisher Correction: Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment
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November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
ICYMI: New Online: Publisher Correction: Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment
ICYMI: New Online: Feasibility, cost and decarbonization potential of clean pathways for heavy-duty road transportation
Feasibility, cost and decarbonization potential of clean pathways for heavy-duty road transportation
Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00119-0Electric trucks and/or liquid fuels such as biodiesel and e-diesel could enable reductions of heavy-duty vehicle emissions and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. This Review discusses the feasibility, costs and decarbonization potential of these technologies and approaches.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
ICYMI: New Online: Feasibility, cost and decarbonization potential of clean pathways for heavy-duty road transportation
We're revisiting Comment articles from 2025. Today, take a read of "Planning for equitable carbon removal governance" by @holcaggiano.bsky.social
Planning for equitable carbon removal governance - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
With growing investment in technological options for durable, large-scale carbon removal projects, there is an opportunity for planners to consider what equitable models of carbon removal development and deployment might look like in practice.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We're revisiting Comment articles from 2025. Today, take a read of "Planning for equitable carbon removal governance" by @holcaggiano.bsky.social
New Online: Feasibility, cost and decarbonization potential of clean pathways for heavy-duty road transportation
Feasibility, cost and decarbonization potential of clean pathways for heavy-duty road transportation
Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00119-0Electric trucks and/or liquid fuels such as biodiesel and e-diesel could enable reductions of heavy-duty vehicle emissions and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. This Review discusses the feasibility, costs and decarbonization potential of these technologies and approaches.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New Online: Feasibility, cost and decarbonization potential of clean pathways for heavy-duty road transportation
ICYMI: Keeping Energy Star is the smart choice for efficient buildings
Keeping Energy Star is the smart choice for efficient buildings - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Energy Star has transformed the market for energy-efficient products and buildings by establishing clear, trusted standards that drive innovation, reduce energy consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions. As the programme faces potential cuts, understanding its impact is crucial to maintaining progress in reducing energy use and promoting sustainable practices.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
ICYMI: Keeping Energy Star is the smart choice for efficient buildings
This week we're revisiting comment articles from earlier this year, including this piece on heat electrification by @janrosenow.bsky.social
Opportunities for heat electrification and energy efficiency in European industry - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
New heat electrification markets offer European industry a unique opportunity to electrify its process heat, boost its energy efficiency and stay competitive while meeting climate goals.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This week we're revisiting comment articles from earlier this year, including this piece on heat electrification by @janrosenow.bsky.social
From earlier this year: Informing net-zero policies in the European Union with evidence-based approaches
Informing net-zero policies in the European Union with evidence-based approaches - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Leveraging experimental methods, such as randomized controlled trials, can inform energy and climate policy delivery in the European Union and maximize its effectiveness.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
From earlier this year: Informing net-zero policies in the European Union with evidence-based approaches
ICYMI: Improving organic photovoltaic performance with ultrafast snapshots
Improving organic photovoltaic performance with ultrafast snapshots - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Tariq Hussein explains how femtosecond lasers can be used to help design better organic photovoltaics by monitoring charge carrier dynamics.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
ICYMI: Improving organic photovoltaic performance with ultrafast snapshots
ICYMI: Environment–process–structure–property linkages in additive manufacturing
Environment–process–structure–property linkages in additive manufacturing - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Environmental conditions fundamentally shape the reliability and sustainability of additive manufacturing. As additive manufacturing moves into real-world environments, these factors need to be considered in modelling and design.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ICYMI: Environment–process–structure–property linkages in additive manufacturing
Automated platforms for electrocatalyst discovery
Automated platforms for electrocatalyst discovery - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Zhen Zhang describes how artificial intelligence algorithms, robotic laboratory equipment and automated characterization techniques can accelerate materials discovery for electrochemical reactions.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Automated platforms for electrocatalyst discovery
Electrochemical membrane reactors for magnesium waste valorization
Electrochemical membrane reactors for magnesium waste valorization - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Mohamed H. Ibrahim discusses how electrochemical membrane reactors can be used for magnesium waste valorization.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Electrochemical membrane reactors for magnesium waste valorization
Incorporating captured carbon into polymers for essential products
Incorporating captured carbon into polymers for essential products - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Most manufactured products contain materials produced with carbon from fossil feedstocks. Econic Technologies has developed a process for replacing fossil feedstocks used to produce polymers with captured carbon from waste carbon dioxide.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Incorporating captured carbon into polymers for essential products
ICYMI: The promises and reality of metal–CO2 batteries
The promises and reality of metal–CO2 batteries - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Metal–CO2 batteries offer the dual benefits of energy storage and carbon utilization, but their commercial viability is limited by drawbacks in performance, cost and safety. This Review discusses barriers to the development and commercialization of aqueous and non-aqueous metal–CO2 batteries and how to overcome them.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
ICYMI: The promises and reality of metal–CO2 batteries
Our November issue is live: www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
We have reviews covering:
🚜 Agrivoltaics
♻️ Life cycle assessment
☀️Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
💧Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier
We have reviews covering:
🚜 Agrivoltaics
♻️ Life cycle assessment
☀️Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
💧Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Our November issue is live: www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
We have reviews covering:
🚜 Agrivoltaics
♻️ Life cycle assessment
☀️Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
💧Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier
We have reviews covering:
🚜 Agrivoltaics
♻️ Life cycle assessment
☀️Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
💧Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier
ICYMI: End-of-life management for wind turbines
End-of-life management for wind turbines - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Wind turbine retirement will result in large end-of-life material flows that must be managed. This Review discusses material reuse and recycling options for composites, steel, rare-earth elements and concrete.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ICYMI: End-of-life management for wind turbines
ICYMI: Considerations for the global commercialization of floating offshore wind energy
Considerations for the global commercialization of floating offshore wind energy - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Floating offshore wind farms can harvest the steady winds found at sea in locations where the seabed is too deep for fixed-bottom wind turbines. This Perspective explores the technical, industrial and social implications of deploying floating offshore wind on a commercial scale.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
ICYMI: Considerations for the global commercialization of floating offshore wind energy
ICYMI: Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Multi-junction solar cells can provide a way to increase the efficiency of solar cells beyond the theoretical efficiency limits of single-junction devices. This Review explores the design and performance of multi-junction devices that use perovskite materials for the two wide bandgap middle and top layers.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ICYMI: Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells
ICYMI: Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment
Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Life cycle assessment (LCA) can measure the environmental impact of products and technologies, but it faces challenges in data quality and system interoperability. This Review examines the need for standardized methodologies, improved transparency, open-source tools, and the integration of artificial intelligence and blockchain to develop global LCA data systems.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
ICYMI: Addressing critical challenges towards a robust data system for life cycle assessment
ICYMI: Going slow to go fast: public response and engagement in renewable energy projects
Going slow to go fast: public response and engagement in renewable energy projects
Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 06 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00116-3Public responses are critical in renewable energy project planning and siting. This Review examines these responses and describes the need for effective and meaningful public engagement.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
ICYMI: Going slow to go fast: public response and engagement in renewable energy projects
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ICYMI: Quantum sensing for emerging energy technologies
Quantum sensing for emerging energy technologies - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
The development and deployment of clean technologies requires high-precision sensing, which quantum sensors can provide. This Review explores the development of quantum sensing technologies for emerging energy generation, transmission and storage applications.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A nice review published by our friends at @natrevcleantech.nature.com
ICYMI: Trends and 2025 insights on the rise of electric vehicles in the USA
Trends and 2025 insights on the rise of electric vehicles in the USA - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Electric vehicles are increasingly adopted in the USA, with concurrent expansion of charging infrastructure and electricity demand. This Review details these trends and discusses their drivers and broader implications.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
ICYMI: Trends and 2025 insights on the rise of electric vehicles in the USA
Going slow to go fast: public response and engagement in renewable energy projects
Going slow to go fast: public response and engagement in renewable energy projects
Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Published online: 06 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00116-3Public responses are critical in renewable energy project planning and siting. This Review examines these responses and describes the need for effective and meaningful public engagement.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Going slow to go fast: public response and engagement in renewable energy projects
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Bio-inspired multiscale design for perovskite solar cells - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Perovskite solar cells have stability issues that prevent their widespread adoption as a photovoltaic technology. This Review explores how natural biomaterial structures have evolved to solve similar ...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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