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This perspective highlights the challenges and opportunities in interfacial evaporation, heat and water management, materials synthesis, and device development for solar steam generation.

Systematic insights into the recent attainments, limitations, and future directions of hydrogen production, storage, delivery, and usage are provided, aiming at offering critical guidance for the future establishment of a hydrogen society.

This review comprehensively summarizes the recent advances on crystalline carbon nitrides, including their preparation, optimization strategies, photocatalytic applications, as well as challenges and prospects.

Recent progresses of value-added electrolysis that replace OER with value-added anodic reactions. Representation of the elements: hydrogen (white color), carbon (gray), oxygen (red), nitrogen (blue), and iodine (magenta).

This article reviews organic photocatalyst hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), discussing the excitonic behaviour and improvement strategies. It also covers progress in organic photocatalysts, and assesses HER efficiency and stability.

Critical review of main aging mechanisms and health prognostic methods for lithium-ion batteries. Comprehensive summary of challenges and prospects for future trends with potential solutions.

The proposal of dispersion region can complete the HC model, explain the anomalous diffusion in the low-voltage region, guide the microstructure design of high-performance HC materials, and provide new insights into the storage mechanism of SIBs.

The optimized cupric oxide nanoparticles on gas diffusion electrodes exhibited ultra-high-rate CO₂ reduction reactions to multicarbon products with a current density of 1.7 A cm⁻² in neutral electrolytes.

A urea-assisted water splitting electrolyzer based on Pt nanoparticle-anchored Ni(OH)₂@Ni-CNF catalyst and Pt@Ni-CNF catalyst is constructed for effectively reducing the energy consumption of H₂ production.

Meticulously designed neighboring WOR and ORR active sites significantly enhance the overall photocatalytic synthesis of hydrogen peroxide.

A single frequency impedance method is introduced, based on an optimum high frequency of minimum phase and faradaic processes, to monitor gas bubble evolution during water electrolysis in operando.

CO₂ reduction in gas diffusion electrodes is modeled using direct numerical simulation, with species transport resolved in 2D throughout the catalyst layer, including steric effects. Modeling yields numerous ways to optimize GDE performance.

Combining theory and experiment, we unveil the mechanisms for furfural electroreduction on copper and provide a rationale to tune reaction conditions to increase activity towards value-added products.

A zwitterionic additive (L-CN) with a positively charged quaternary ammonium site and multifunctional polar groups was employed to achieve ultralong-life Zn-ion batteries.

The grain boundary defect engineered Ni nanoparticles has been explored for boosting selective nitrate electroreduction to ammonia, and its NH₃ generation rate is much higher than those of the reported copper or noble metal-based catalysts.

A hydrated deep eutectic electrolyte with a water-deficient solvation structure and reduced free water in bulk solution is proposed, resulting in highly reversible and stable Zn anodes.

An electronegativity-dominant high-entropy atomic environment regulation strategy was developed to manipulate the electrocatalytic properties by tailoring the competitive adsorption sites in HEA NPs.

The defect-copper chalcopyrite CuGa₃Se₅ is a promising photocathode material for solar hydrogen generation. Here we assess its performance with photoelectrochemical measurements and vibrating Kelvin probe surface photovoltage spectroscopy.

In a direct carbonate electrolysis system, a CO₂ diffusion layer enabled the production of CO-rich syngas.

PdCu/CBC exhibited a remarkable R_urea of 763.8 ± 42.8 μg h⁻¹ mg_cat.⁻¹ at −0.50 V (vs. RHE) and an exceptional FE of 69.1 ± 3.8% at −0.40 V (vs. RHE). Taking advantage of operando spectroscopy characterization, the C–N coupling mechanism was verified.