Recent publications in the Nature family and Science publications

December 12, 2024

A roundup of 5 recent publications from UVic researchers in the prestigious Nature family and Science journals.

• Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks, Nature, November 2024
  
  UVic Earth and Ocean Sciences’ Andrew Weaver and an international team discuss measures to ensure residual fossil fuel use does not cause further global warming.
  
  On the same topic:  Conversation Canada article by Weaver: COP29: Only by returning carbon to the ground is net zero truly possible

• Reproducible high-quality perovskite single crystals by flux-regulated crystallization with a feedback loop, Nature Synthesis, October 2024
  
  An all-UVic team from Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technologies describe a new, highly reliable method for synthesizing perovskite crystals to commercial quality.
  
  Saidaminov and Chemistry graduate students Vishal Yeddu and Yameen Ahmed, with an international team, published Scalable fabrication of wide-bandgap perovskites using green solvents for tandem solar cells in Nature Energy, November 2024.
  
  
• Protect kelp forests, Science, November 2024
  
  A letter penned by UVic Geography post-doctoral fellows Alejandra Mora-Soto and Romina Vanessa Barbosa with an international team describes strategies that national governments should apply to protect kelp forests that will enhance equitable outcomes for local and Indigenous communities, global biodiversity conservation, food security, and cultural and socioeconomic needs.

• A 3D ray traced biological neural network learning model, Nature Communications, December 2024
  
  UVic Electrical and Computer Science researchers Brosnan Yuen, Xiaodai Dong and Tao Lu have designed a dynamic neural network using raytracing to connect neurons in a three-dimensional space, allowing the network to grow into any shape or size.