GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 14 contributing scholarly metadata sources and uses AI-assisted classification to identify signals related to measurement, policy narratives, outcomes, implementation, industrial adoption, and verification.
The goal is not only to discover papers, but to observe how GX research is distributed across research substance, implementation narratives, external expectations, implementation substance, and judgment formation.
Summaries are AI-assisted. Always refer to the original paper for authoritative conclusions.
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalFrontiers in Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Artificial intelligence for net-zero construction: a bibliometric mapping of research landscape, thematic clusters and emerging directions across the AEC industry
Marcela Pincay-Pilay, Dayana Michelle Castro-Chilán, Marlon Alexander González Regalado +1
The AEC industry emits ~39% of global CO2, making it central to decarbonization. This bibliometric study analyzes 517 Scopus/WoS articles (2017-2026) on AI and net-zero construction, finding 54.45% annual growth with 87.4% published in 2023…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainable Cities and Society2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Pathways to Sustainable Urban Energy Systems: Trade-off and Synergy Between Green Transition and Resilience
Ziwei Zhang, Yinyin Wu, M. Jalili +2
This paper examines the trade-offs and synergies between green transition and resilience in urban energy systems. It frames pathways toward sustainable urban energy, exploring how decarbonization and resilience can be reconciled. Detailed f…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEarth s Future2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Sustainable Management of Global Platinum Group Resources in the Energy Transition: A Group Metabolism Perspective
Wang Gu, Jinze Li, Yue Xu +3
This study uses dynamic material flow analysis to quantify the global metabolism of five PGMs (Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru) across five regions from 2011 to 2025. Demand centers shifted toward East Asia, North America, and Europe, with Pd and Rh sha…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalProcess Safety and Environmental Protection2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Perfluorocarbon Emissions from Aluminum Electrolysis: Generation Mechanisms, Abatement Strategies, and Carbon Neutrality Pathways
Jiefei Li, Yuxuan Yang, Xiang Zheng +2
A review-style study on perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions from aluminum electrolysis, covering generation mechanisms, abatement strategies, and carbon-neutrality pathways. Co-authored by Chinese universities, a provincial academy, and an ener…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalNature Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Navigating the land–energy nexus for carbon-neutral power systems in China
Ziheng Zhu, Runxin Yu, Da Zhang
This study examines the land–energy nexus for building carbon-neutral power systems in China, analyzing how land-use constraints interact with large-scale renewable deployment. It highlights spatial siting limits and land competition as key…
Peer-reviewedJournalElectric Power Systems Research2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A low-carbon economic bidding strategy for power generators considering multi-market coupling: a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach
Haihua Mo, Peng Wang, Jiangfeng Song +2
This work develops a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach for power generators' low-carbon bidding strategies under coupled electricity markets. It optimizes the trade-off between decarbonization and profitability. It applies AI…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnergy Technology2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Hierarchical Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Hosts for Low‐Polarization Sulfur Cathodes in Molten‐Salt Aluminum–Sulfur Batteries
Zhicheng Tang, Guokang Wei, Jia Qiao +6
A corn-cob-derived nitrogen-doped activated carbon (NAC) host was made via one-step activation–carbonization for molten-salt Al–S batteries. NAC's hierarchical porous structure improves sulfur dispersion and ion/electron transport; S@NAC de…
Peer-reviewedJournal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Next-Generation Low-Carbon Structural Materials: Technical Feasibility and Applications in Industrial EPC Projects
Biplab Munshi
This paper examines the technical feasibility and application of next-generation low-carbon structural materials in industrial EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects. No abstract is available, but the focus is on decarbonizin…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalJOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE RESEARCH2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Black Energy in Texas: Energy Transition and Labor Market Equity- Integrating Workforce Development into State Energy Policy
Owen Hetherington
This policy brief examines structural barriers limiting Black Texans' representation and advancement across oil, gas, and renewable energy industries. Drawing on workforce data and policy analysis, it identifies inequities in recruitment, l…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research Letters2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Future Energy Transition Mineral Demands and Barriers for South and Southeast Asia
Seaver Wang, Peter J. Cook, Ryan Alimento +4
This study models future energy transition mineral demand for power and transport in India, Bangladesh, and ASEAN. By 2050 these regions may consume at levels comparable to the US, yet domestic mining falls short—especially for graphite and…
Peer-reviewedJournalEconomic Analysis and Policy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Temperature shocks, renewable energy transition and inflation in island economies
Paresh Kumar Narayan, Karan Rai, Bhavesh Garg +1
This study examines how temperature shocks and the renewable energy transition affect inflation in island economies. It links climate variability to macroeconomic price dynamics through the lens of energy transition. Without an abstract, me…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research Letters2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Assessing irrigation-driven carbon emissions across the Murray–Darling Basin: first insight from publicly available datasets
Arezoo Boroomandnia, Reihaneh Bandari, Behzad Rismanchi +1
First basin-scale estimate of irrigation energy use and emissions in Australia's Murray–Darling Basin, built from public datasets in a transparent top-down framework. Irrigation emissions range 4.5–9.01 Mt CO2-e/yr (0.53–1.06 t CO2-e per ML…
Peer-reviewed🇯🇵 JapanJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The Macroeconomic and Ecological Metamorphosis of a Monocentric Extractive Basin: Transforming Dhanbad from the "Coal Capital" to the "Food Diamond Capital" of India
Aditya Chauhan
This paper proposes a structural blueprint to transition Dhanbad, India's monocentric coal-extractive basin, into a circular, regenerative "Food Diamond" economy centered on decentralized mushroom cultivation. Leveraging existing rail logis…
Peer-reviewed🇯🇵 JapanJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The Macroeconomic and Ecological Metamorphosis of a Monocentric Extractive Basin: Transforming Dhanbad from the "Coal Capital" to the "Food Diamond Capital" of India
Aditya Chauhan
This paper proposes a structural blueprint to transition Dhanbad, India's monocentric coal-extractive economy, into a circular regenerative "Food Diamond" paradigm. It models large-scale integration of decentralized mycology/mushroom cultiv…
Peer-reviewedJournalEnergy & Fuels2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Process Modeling and Techno-Environmental Assessment of Lignin Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Aromatics and Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Yi-Ming Chen, Wei-En Huang, Bor‐Yih Yu
This study models lignin hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) into oxygenated aromatics for phenolic resin precursors (Scenario 1) and SAF blendstock (Scenario 2), using TEA and LCA. Scenario 1 achieves net-negative GWP across lignin sources, re…
Preprint🌍 GlobalZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Regional energy integration in the Southern African Development Community
Klaasen, Abraham
SADC members face electricity generation challenges that hinder socio-economic growth, sustainable development, and industrialisation. The region relies heavily on coal and on climate-vulnerable hydropower, as the current drought demonstrat…
🇪🇺 EuropeDatasetZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
MicroSTEP — Distributed small-reservoir pumped-storage hydropower screening across Europe (code and reference results)
Girard, Robin, Rogeau, Antoine, Quaranta, Emanuele
Reproducible GIS screening code and reference results for distributed small-reservoir pumped-storage hydropower across Europe. The latest release fixes a France-exclusion bug, rebuilds Norway/Sweden from national LiDAR DEMs, adds karst and …
🌍 GlobalDatasetZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
urbs energy-system models for a rural ecotourism development (six scenarios)
Puente Antonio, Iván, García Kerdan, Iván
Using the open-source urbs model, this study optimizes six distributed-energy scenarios for a rural ecotourism site in Singuilucan, Hidalgo, Mexico. It combines conventional vs. passive building envelopes with grid-connected, off-grid, and …
Peer-reviewedJournalJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Techno-Economic and Decarbonisation Assessment of Small Modular Reactor Propulsion for Large Container Ships Under the IMO Net-Zero Framework
Tae-Youl Jeon, Young-Chan Lee
A stochastic model endogenising the IMO Net-Zero Framework's two-tier compliance mechanism assesses SMR propulsion for a 15,000 TEU container ship over 25 years. The SMR abates 96.6% of life-cycle emissions, but its cost versus the best con…
JournalJapanese Political Economy of the Environment2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Prolonging the Use of Nuclear and Thermal Power Proceeds under Decarbonization Policy
Kenichi Oshima
This paper examines how proceeds from nuclear and thermal power generation can be used and prolonged under decarbonization policy. Without an abstract, details are unclear, but it addresses the intersection of power-mix strategy and financi…
