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

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2009

Lee, Zonghoon, Ki-Joon Jeon, Albert Dato, Rolf Erni, Thomas J Richardson, Michael Frenklach, and Velimir Radmilovic."Direct Imagining of Soft-hard Interfaces Enabled by Graphene."NanoLetters 9.9 (2009) 3365-3369. DOI

Rogers, Matthew, Steven J Barcelo, Xiaobo Chen, Thomas J Richardson, Vincent Berube, Gang Chen, Mildred S Dresselhaus, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Storage Characteristics of Nanograined Free-Standing Magnesium-Nickel Films."Applied Physics A 96.2 (2009) 349-352. DOI

Zhang, Yuxi, Honghe Zheng, Gao Liu, and Vincent S Battaglia."Synthesis and electrochemical studies of a layered spheric TiO₂ through low temperature solvothermal method."Electrochimica Acta 54.16 (2009) 4079-4083. DOI

Wilcox, James D, Sébastien Patoux, and Marca M Doeff."Structure and Electrochemistry of LiNi_1/3Co_1/3-yM_yMn_1/3O₂ (M= Ti, Al, Fe) Positive Electrode Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156 (2009) A192-A198. DOI

Sethuraman, Vijay A, Laurence J Hardwick, Venkat Srinivasan, and Robert Kostecki."A Study of the Mechanism of Surface Structural Disordering in Graphite upon Lithium Intercalation/Deintercalation."Journal of Power Sources (2009).

Dato, Albert, Zonghoon Lee, Ki-Joon Jeon, Velimir Radmilovic, Thomas J Richardson, and Michael Frenklach."Clean and Highly-Ordered Graphene Synthesized in the Gas-Phase."Chemical Communications (2009) 6095-6097. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, Philip N Ross, and Vincent S Battaglia."Effect of Vinylene Carbonate on Graphite Anode Cycling Efficiency."Electrochemical Society 19.25 (2009) 51-57. DOI

Albertus, Paul, John Christensen, and John S Newman."Experiment on a Modeling of Positive Electrodes with Multiple Active Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Electrochemical Society 156 (2009) A606.

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Improving the Performance of Lithium Manganese Phosphate."Journal of Electrochemical Society (2009).

Lucas, Ivan T, Elad Pollak, and Robert Kostecki."In situ AFM studies of SEI formation at a Sn electrode."Electrochemistry Communications 11.11 (2009) 2157-2160. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, James D Wilcox, Marca M Doeff, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Coatings on LiNi_1/3Co_1/3Mn_1/3O₂ for Li-ion Battery Composite Cathodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156.1 (2009) A48-A51. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Solid Solution Phases in Olivine-Type LiMnPO₄/MnPO₄ System."Journal of Electrochemical Society 156.9 (2009) A756-A762. DOI

2008

Shin, Joon Ho, Pratyay Basak, John B Kerr, and Elton J Cairns."Rechargeable LiFePO₄ Cells Using N-Methyl-N-butyl pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethane sulfonyl)imide-LiTFSI Electrolyte Incorporating Polymer Additives."Electrochimica Acta 54.2 (2008) 410-414. DOI

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, S Kim, Yonghong Deng, Andrew M Minor, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Effects of Various Conductive Additive and Polymeric Binder Contents on the Performance of a Lithium-Ion Composite Cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.12 (2008) A887-A892. DOI

Hardwick, Laurence J, Juliette A Saint, Ivan T Lucas, Marca M Doeff, and Robert Kostecki."FTIR and Raman Study of the Li_xTi_yMn_1-yO₂ (y= 0, 0.11) Cathodes in Methylpropyl Pyrrolidinium Bis(fluoro-sulfonyl)imide, LiTFSI Electrolyte."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156.2 (2008) A120-A127. DOI

Albertus, Paul, Jeremy Couts, Venkat Srinivasan, and John S Newman."II. A combined model for determining capacity usage and battery size for hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles."Journal of Power Sources 183.2 (2008) 771-782. DOI

Delacourt, Charles, and John S Newman."Mathematical Modeling of a Cation-Exchange Membrane Containing Two Cations."Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) B1210-B2328. DOI

McGrath, Patrick, Aurora Marie Fojas, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Site-dependent C chemical shifts of CO adsorbed on Pt electrocatalysts."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112 (2008) 14702-14705. DOI

Thomas, Edward V, Ira Bloom, Jon P Christophersen, and Vincent S Battaglia."Statistical methodology for predicting the life of lithium-ion cells via accelerated degradation testing."Journal of Power Sources 184.1 (2008) 312-317. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, James D Wilcox, Rong Yu, Albert Aumentado, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Impact of carbon structure and morphology on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO₄/C composites."Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 12.7-8 (2008) 995-1001. DOI

Chen, Guoying, James D Wilcox, and Thomas J Richardson."Improving the performance of lithium manganese phosphate through divalent cation substitution."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 11.11 (2008) A190-A194. DOI

Stewart, Sarah G, Venkat Srinivasan, and John S Newman."Modeling the performance of lithium-ion batteries and capacitors during hybrid-electric-vehicle operation."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.9 (2008) A664-A671. DOI

Saint, Juliette A, Marca M Doeff, and James D Wilcox."Electrode materials with the Na_0.44MnO₂ structure: Effect of titanium substitution on physical and electrochemical properties."Chemistry of Materials 20 (2008) 3404-3411. DOI

Shin, Joon Ho, and Elton J Cairns."Characterization of N-methyl-N-butylpyrrolidinium bis (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide-LiTFSI-tetra (ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether mixtures as a Li metal cell electrolyte."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) A368-A373. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Li[Ni_1/3Mn_1/3Co_1/3]O₂-based electrodes for PHEV applications: an optimization."ECS Transactions 11.32 (2008) 1-9. DOI