Water electrolysis

AJ Shih, MCO Monteiro, F Dattila, D Pavesi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemistry has the potential to sustainably transform molecules with electrons
supplied by renewable electricity. It is one of many solutions towards a more circular …

The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys

D Raabe - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

Energy transition minerals and their intersection with land-connected peoples

JR Owen, D Kemp, AM Lechner, J Harris, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rapidly transitioning the global energy system to renewables is considered necessary to
combat climate change. Current estimates suggest that at least 30 energy transition minerals …

A perspective on the sustainability of cathode materials used in lithium‐ion batteries

BE Murdock, KE Toghill… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electric vehicles powered by lithium‐ion batteries are viewed as a vital green technology
required to meet CO2 emission targets as part of a global effort to tackle climate change …

Sulfur vacancies engineered self-supported Co3S4 nanoflowers as an efficient bifunctional catalyst for electrochemical water splitting

Q Wang, H Xu, X Qian, G He, H Chen - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023 - Elsevier
Optimizing electron distribution and expediting electron transfer efficiency are two of the
major strategies for developing non-noble difunctional catalysts in the overall water splitting …

What derives renewable energy transition in G-7 and E-7 countries? The role of financial development and mineral markets

M Irfan, MA Rehman, A Razzaq, Y Hao - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The enduring impact of the synergy between environmental sustainability and natural
resources varies across countries depending on the economic structure. Though the …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting circular economy transition: A study about perceptions and awareness by different stakeholders groups

SK van Langen, C Vassillo, P Ghisellini… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The interest into Circular Economy (CE), mainly emerged recently in response to
climate change, environmental damage, and the limits of a linear economy, requires a …

Impacts of metal mining on river systems: a global assessment

MG Macklin, CJ Thomas, A Mudbhatkal, PA Brewer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
An estimated 23 million people live on floodplains affected by potentially dangerous
concentrations of toxic waste derived from past and present metal mining activity. We …

[HTML][HTML] European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring 'green'energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization

A Dunlap, L Laratte - Political Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
This article critically examines the GND (Green New Deal) platform by exploring the reality of
energy development under the European Green Deal (EGD). Taking a special interest in …

The security–sustainability nexus: Lithium onshoring in the Global North

T Riofrancos - Global Environmental Politics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
The political economy of lithium, a “critical mineral” for the renewable energy transition, is
marked by two striking developments. First, Global North governments that have historically …