• Battery technology and recycling alone will not save the electric mobility transition from future cobalt shortages 

      Zeng, Anqi; Chen, Wu; Dalgas Rasmussen, Kasper; Zhu, Xuehong; Lundhaug, Maren Cathrine; Mueller, Daniel Beat; Tan, Juan; Keiding, Jakob K.; Liu, LiTao; Dai, Tao; Wang, Anjian; Liu, Gang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In recent years, increasing attention has been given to the potential supply risks of critical battery materials, such as cobalt, for electric mobility transitions. While battery technology and recycling advancement are ...
    • Correspondence: Reply to ‘Challenges with dating weathering products to unravel ancient landscapes’ 

      Fredin, Ola; Viola, Giulio; Zwingmann, Horst; Sørlie, Ronald; Brönner, Marco; Lie, Jan-Erik; Grandal, Else Margrethe; Müller, Axel; Margreth, Annina; Vogt, Christoph; Knies, Jochen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Deconvoluting complex structural histories archived in brittle fault zones 

      Viola, Giulio; Scheiber, Thomas; Fredin, Ola; Zwingmann, Horst; Margreth, A; Knies, Jochen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Brittle deformation can saturate the Earth’s crust with faults and fractures in an apparently chaotic fashion. The details of brittle deformational histories and implications on, for example, seismotectonics and landscape, ...
    • Detangling electrolyte chemical dynamics in lithium sulfur batteries by operando monitoring with optical resonance combs 

      Liu, Fu; Lu, Wenqing; Huang, Jiaqiang; Pimenta, Vanesssa; Boles, Steven; Demir-Cakan, Rezan; Tarascon, Jean-Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Challenges in enabling next-generation rechargeable batteries with lower cost, higher energy density, and longer cycling life stem not only from combining appropriate materials, but from optimally using cell components. ...
    • Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies 

      Luderer, Gunnar; Pehl, Michaja; Arvesen, Anders; Gibon, Thomas; Bodirsky, Benjamin L.; de Boer, Harmen-Sytze; Fricko, Oliver; Hejazi, Mohamad; Humpenöder, Florian; Iyer, Gokul; Mima, Silvana; Mouratiadou, Ioanna; Pietzcker, Robert C.; Popp, Alexander; van den Berg, Maarten; van Vuuren, Detlef; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A rapid and deep decarbonization of power supply worldwide is required to limit global warming to well below 2 °C. Beyond greenhouse gas emissions, the power sector is also responsible for numerous other environmental ...
    • Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals 

      Lawrence, Mark G.; Schãfer, Stefan; Muri, Helene; Scott, Vivian; Oschlies, Andreas; Vaughan, Naomi E.; Boucher, Olivier; Schmidt, Hauke; Haywood, Jim M.; Scheffran, Jürgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Current mitigation efforts and existing future commitments are inadequate to accomplish the Paris Agreement temperature goals. In light of this, research and debate are intensifying on the possibilities of additionally ...
    • Frictional fluid instabilities shaped by viscous forces 

      Zhang, Dawang; Campbell, James; Eriksen, Jon Alm; Flekkøy, Eirik Grude; Måløy, Knut Jørgen; MacMinn, Christopher W.; Sandnes, Bjørnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Multiphase flows involving granular materials are complex and prone to pattern formation caused by competing mechanical and hydrodynamic interactions. Here we study the interplay between granular bulldozing and the stabilising ...
    • Global scenarios of resource and emission savings from material efficiency in residential buildings and cars 

      Pauliuk, Stefan; Heeren, Niko; Berrill, Peter; Fishman, Tomer; Nistad, Andrea Arntzen; Tu, Qingshi; Wolfram, Paul; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Material production accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Resource-efficiency and circular-economy strategies, both industry and demand-focused, promise emission reductions through reducing ...
    • Imaging high-speed friction at the nanometer scale 

      Thorén, Per-Anders; de Wijn, Astrid S.; Borgani, Riccardo; Forchheimer, Daniel; Haviland, David B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Friction is a complicated phenomenon involving nonlinear dynamics at different length and time scales. Understanding its microscopic origin requires methods for measuring force on nanometer-scale asperities sliding at ...
    • Mechanical instability of monocrystalline and polycrystalline methane hydrates 

      Wu, Jianyang; Ning, Fulong; Trinh, Thuat; Kjelstrup, Signe; Vlugt, Thijs J.H.; He, Jianying; Skallerud, Bjørn Helge; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Despite observations of massive methane release and geohazards associated with gas hydrate instability in nature, as well as ductile flow accompanying hydrate dissociation in artificial polycrystalline methane hydrates ...
    • On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures 

      Zhang, Mingyang; Zhao, Ning; Yu, Qin; Liu, Zengqian; Qu, Ruitao; Zhang, Jian; Li, Shujun; Ren, Dechun; Berto, Filippo; Zhang, Zhefeng; Ritchie, Robert O. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Bioinspired architectures are effective in enhancing the mechanical properties of materials, yet are difficult to construct in metallic systems. The structure-property relationships of bioinspired metallic composites also ...
    • Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe 

      Huang, Bo; Hu, Xiangping; Fuglstad, Geir-Arne; Zhou, Xu; Zhao, Wenwu; Cherubini, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Around 70 Mha of land cover changes (LCCs) occurred in Europe from 1992 to 2015. Despite LCCs being an important driver of regional climate variations, their temperature effects at a continental scale have not yet been ...
    • Pricing indirect emissions accelerates low—carbon transition of US light vehicle sector 

      Wolfram, Paul; Weber, Stephanie; Gillingham, Kenneth T.; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    • Reply to 'Challenges with dating weathering products to unravel ancient landscapes' 

      Fredin, Ola; Viola, Giulio; Zwingmann, Horst; Sørlie, Ronald; Brönner, Marco; Lie, Jan-Erik; Grandal, Else Margrethe; Müller, Axel; Margreth, Annina; Vogt, Christoph; Knies, Jochen (Others, 2017)
    • Role of export industries on ozone pollution and its precursors in China 

      Ou, Jiamin; Huang, Zhijiong; Klimont, Zbigniew; Jia, Guanglin; Zhang, Shaohui; Li, Cheng; Meng, Jing; Mi, Zhifu; Zheng, Heran; Shan, Yuli; Louie, Peter K. K.; Zheng, Junyu; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This study seeks to estimate how global supply chain relocates emissions of tropospheric ozone precursors and its impacts in shaping ozone formation. Here we show that goods produced in China for foreign markets lead to ...
    • The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia 

      Fredin, Ola; Viola, Giulio; Zwingmann, Horst; Sørlie, Ronald; Brönner, Marco; Lie, Jan-Erik; Grandal, Else Margrethe; Müller, Axel Bernd; Margreth, Annina; Vogt, Christoph; Knies, Jochen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In-situ weathered bedrock, saprolite, is locally found in Scandinavia, where it is commonly thought to represent pre-Pleistocene weathering possibly associated with landscape formation. The age of weathering, however, ...
    • Understanding the friction of atomically thin layered materials 

      Andersson, Sven Per David; de Wijn, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Friction is a ubiquitous phenomenon that greatly affects our everyday lives and is responsible for large amounts of energy loss in industrialised societies. Layered materials such as graphene have interesting frictional ...