Direct seawater electrolysis could produce hydrogen using ocean water and offshore renewables. This Perspective outlines scaling strategies and key challenges in catalysts, membranes, and system design to enable stable, industrial-scale operation.

Renewable hydrogen could reshape industry and global value chains. This Perspective explores fuel-switch, relocation, and hybrid pathways, highlighting geoeconomic, environmental, and justice implications for a fair hydrogen transition.

In this Tools of the Trade article, Hala Farghaly explains how DLS can be used for battery, catalytic and photovoltaic materials.

Retired lithium-ion batteries can still hold 70–80% of their original capacity. This Perspective shows how AI can enable smarter life-cycle decisions, improving safety, efficiency, and value recovery across battery supply chains.

A just energy transition needs equitable access, but costs, credit limits, and housing barriers exclude many. This Review shows how policies can fall short and highlights community-based solutions and design principles.

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In this Tools of the Trade article, Blaž Tomc explains how electrocatalytic reactions can be stabilized using pulsed electrolysis.

Housing drives emissions, but high well-being with low demand is possible. This Review shows how design, efficiency, and behavior can cut energy and materials while boosting health and resilience.

This recent Review examines the impact of both the IRA and the OBBB on the energy system of the US

This Review explores seawater batteries as an alternative to lithium-based systems. Beyond energy storage, they can integrate seawater desalination, carbon capture, and resource recovery into a single platform.

Our May issue is online today! It includes articles on battery recycling, atmospheric water harvesting, industrial wastewater reuse, and our cover feature —policy pathways for just clean energy transitions. You can read more here: www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...

Large-scale use of renewable hydrogen in industry could affect the geography of production. This Perspective examines factors related to the production of renewable hydrogen and the potential changes in industrial production.

In this Tool of the Trade, Ogechi Vivian Nwadiaru discusses how community-based participatory research can be used to inform clean energy and infrastructure planning and decision-making.

The reuse and recycling of batteries rely on knowing their condition and energy capacity. This Perspective explores how artificial intelligence can be used to help with this.

Quantum computing's energy demands are unknown but could potentially be very large. This Comment highlights how a range of research disciplines need to work together to quantify and plan for the resource needs of quantum computing at scale.

New paper in Nature Reviews Clean Technology with @rynacui.bsky.social and co-authors: What did the IRA actually accomplish, and what does the One Big Beautiful Bill Act undo? We’re on Shift Key with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social today breaking it down: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Direct seawater electrolysis could be used in conjunction with offshore renewable energy sources to produce green hydrogen. This Perspective explores potential routes to scaling up the technology.

In this Tool of the Trade, Kiruba Catherine Vincent explains how XRF can be used to characterize materials for clean technology research

Drinking water can be harvested from air, even in arid climates, but can be energy intensive. This Review explores non-thermal techniques to reduce the energy consumption of the process

Sea water batteries offer a potential platform for several applications. This Perspective explores the technology and the advances required to increase their scale.

How can policies to facilitate the adoption of clean technologies ensure that disadvantaged households are able to benefit from them?

Energy systems research focuses on net-zero target dates, but increasing the robustness of energy planning will require expanding horizons further into the future, argues @jannweinand.bsky.social in this new comment:

Housing should be both comfortable and sustainable. This Review discusses best practices for developing High Wellbeing with Low demand (HwL) housing

The US Inflation Reduction Act aimed to increase the deployment of clean technology. This Review takes a look at its impact on the energy system, and explores the potential impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Housing needs to be energy efficient, but comfortable. This Review examines trade-offs in building design and operation that maximise efficiency while considering well-being.

Our April issue is available online🐟. This issue features two perspectives on potential clean technology applications for seawater, as well as increasing the sustainability of housing and magnesium battery electrolytes. You can read the full issue online here: www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...

Producing hydrogen directly from sea water could take advantage of the potential abundance of both offshore renewable energy, and sea water. This perspective discusses routes to overcoming technical barriers