Energy Technologies Area

Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2013

Tucker, Michael C, Venkat Srinivasan, Philip N Ross, and Adam Z Weber."Performance and cycling of the iron-ion/hydrogen redox flow cell with various catholyte salts."Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 43.7 (2013) 637-644. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Bin Xiang, Andrew M Minor, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer and Silicon Composite Secondary Particles for a High Area-Loading Negative Electrode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) A1380-A1383. DOI

Duncan, Hugues, Nuha Salem, and Yaser Abu-Lebdeh."Electrolyte Formulations Based on Dinitrile Solvents for High Voltage Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.6 (2013) A838-A848. DOI

Wang, Lei, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."SBR–PVDF based binder for the application of SLMP in graphite anodes."RSC Advances 3.35 (2013) 15022-15027. DOI

Wang, Bin, Thomas J Richardson, and Guoying Chen."Stable and high-rate overcharge protection for rechargeable lithium batteries."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15 (2013) 6849-6855. DOI

Amrose, Susan, Ashok J Gadgil, Venkat Srinivasan, Kristin Kowolik, Marc F Müller, Jessica Huang, and Robert Kostecki."Arsenic Removal from Groundwater Using Iron Electrocoagulation: Effect of Charge Dosage Rate."Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering 48.9 (2013) 1019-1030. DOI

Xu, Linping, Chunjoong Kim, Alpesh K Shukla, Angang Dong, Tracy M Mattox, Delia J Milliron, and Jordi Cabana."Monodisperse Sn nanocrystals as a platform for the study of mechanical damage during electrochemical reactions with Li."Nano letters 13.4 (2013) 1800-1805. DOI

Song, Min-Kyu, Elton J Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Lithium/sulfur batteries with high specific energy: old challenges and new opportunities."Nanoscale 5 (2013) 2186-2204. DOI

Kim, Chunjoong, Nick S Norberg, Caleb T Alexander, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Mechanism of Phase Propagation During Lithiation in Carbon-Free Li₄Ti₅O₁₂ Battery Electrodes."Advanced Functional Materials 23.9 (2013) 1214-1222. DOI

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Florian Meirer, Yijin Liu, Alpesh K Shukla, Rossana Dell’Anna, Tolek Tyliszczak, Guoying Chen, Joy C Andrews, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Mesoscale phase distribution in single particles of LiFePO₄ following lithium deintercalation."Chemistry of Materials 25.9 (2013) 1664-1672. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z Weber."Role of Chemical-Mechanical Energies in Understanding Structure and Properties of Aged and Degraded Membranes."ECS Transactions 50.2 (2013) 961 - 965. DOI

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, and Vincent S Battaglia."Surface stabilized LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ cathode materials with high-rate capability and long cycle life for lithium ion batteries."Nano energy 2.2 (2013) 283-293. DOI

Zhang, Liying, Lei Cheng, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, and Thomas J Richardson."Effect of lithium borate addition on the physical and electrochemical properties of the lithium ion conductor Li_3.4Si_0.4P_0.6O₄."Solid State Ionics 231 (2013) 109-115. DOI

Slater, Michael D, Donghan Kim, Eungje Lee, Christopher S Johnson, and Marca M Doeff."Sodium-Ion Batteries."Advanced Functional Materials 23 (2013) 947-958. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder-Enabled Cycling of Pure Tin Nanoparticle Composite Anode Electrodes for a Lithium-Ion Battery."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 160.6 (2013) A849 - A855. DOI

Hai, Bin, Alpesh K Shukla, Hugues Duncan, and Guoying Chen."Effect of Particle Surface Facets on the Kinetic Properties of LiMn_1.5Ni_0.5O₄ Cathode Material."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1 (2013) 759-769. DOI

Cook, John B, Chunjoong Kim, Linping Xu, and Jordi Cabana."The effect of Al substitution on the chemical and electrochemical phase stability of orthorhombic LiMnO₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160 (2013) A46-A52. DOI

Park, Jung Hoon, Wan-Shick Hong, Joong Sun Park, Lei Cheng, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, Yuyi Li, Thomas J Richardson, and Ji-Won Son."Aluminum Migration during Deposition of Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ Thin Films on Aluminum Oxide Substrates."ECS Transactions 53.36 (2013) 1-4. DOI

Doeff, Marca M."Battery Cathodes."Batteries for Sustainability (2013) 5-49. DOI

Courtel, Fabrice M, Hugues Duncan, and Yaser Abu-Lebdeh."Beyond Intercalation: Nanoscale-Enabled Conversion Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Nanotechnology for Lithium-Ion Batteries (2013) 85-116. DOI

Duncan, Hugues, Ali Abouimrane, and Yaser Abu-Lebdeh."Nanosized and Nanostructured Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Nanotechnology for Lithium-Ion Batteries (2013) 163-177. DOI

Lux, Simon F, Ivan T Lucas, Julie S Chevalier, Thomas J Richardson, and Robert Kostecki."Time-Dependent Determination of HF Formation in LiPF₆-Containing Electrolytes in Different Cell Types by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry."ECS Transactions 50.1 (2013) 27-30. DOI

Syzdek, Jaroslaw S, Vassilia Zorba, Xianglei Mao, Richard E Russo, and Robert Kostecki."Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Electrode/Electrolyte Interfaces."ECS Transactions 50.1 (2013) 39-48. DOI

2012

Sethuraman, Vijay A, Venkat Srinivasan, and John S Newman."Analysis of electrochemical lithiation and delithiation kinetics in silicon."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.2 (2012) A394-A403. DOI

Cai, Kunpeng, Min-Kyu Song, Elton J Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Nanostructured Li₂S–C composites as cathode material for high-energy lithium/sulfur batteries."Nano Letters 12 (2012) 6474-6479. DOI