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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2008

Stewart, Sarah G, Paul Albertus, Venkat Srinivasan, Irene Plitz, Nathalie Pereira, Glenn G Amatucci, and John S Newman."Optimizing the performance of lithium titanate spinel paired with activated carbon or iron phosphate."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.3 (2008) A253-A261. DOI

Gabrisch, Heike, James D Wilcox, and Marca M Doeff."TEM study of fracturing in spherical and plate-like LiFePO₄ particles."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 11 (2008) A25-A29. DOI

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L Ridgway, John B Kerr, and John S Newman."Design of an Electrochemical Cell Making Syngas (CO + H₂) from CO₂ and H₂O Reduction at Room Temperature."Journal of Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) B42-B49. DOI

Hardwick, Laurence J, Marek Marcinek, Leanne Beer, John B Kerr, and Robert Kostecki."An Investigation of the Effect of Graphite Degradation on Irreversible Capacity in Lithium-Ion Cells."Electrochemical Society 155.6 (2008) A442-A447. DOI

Wilcox, James D, and Marca M Doeff."Characterization and Electrochemical Performance of Substituted LiNi_0.4Co_0.2-yAl_yMn_0.4O₂ (0≤y≤0.2) Cathode Materials."ECS Transactions 11.29 (2008) 27-33. DOI

Saint, Juliette A, Adam S Best, Anthony F Hollenkamp, Joon Ho Shin, and Marca M Doeff."Compatibility of Lix TiyMn1-y02 (y=0,0.11) electrode materials with pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid electrolyte systems."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.2 (2008) A172-A180. DOI

Albertus, Paul, John Christensen, and John S Newman."Modeling Side Reactions and Nonisothermal Effects in Nickel Metal-Hydride Batteries."Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) A48-A60.

Shin, Joon Ho, and Elton J Cairns."N-Methyl-(n-butyl)pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide-LiTFSI-poly(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether mixture as a Li/S cell electrolyte."Journal of Power Sources 177 (2008) 537-545. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J."Overcharge Protection Shuttles for Lithium Ion Batteries."Journal of Electrochemical Society (2008).

Ridgway, Paul L, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Abdelbast Guerfi, Patrick Charest, Karim Zaghib, and Vincent S Battaglia."Performance of Lithium Ion Cell Anode Graphites Under Various Cycling Conditions."ECS Trans. 13 (2008).

Hardwick, Laurence J, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Studying the Origin and Mechanism of Irreversible Capacity in Lithium-Ion Cells."ECS Transactions 11.29 (2008) 139-148. DOI

Stewart, Sarah G, and John S Newman."The Use of UV/vis Absorption to Measure Diffusion Coefficients in LiPF₆ Electrolytic Solutions."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.1 (2008) F13-F16. DOI

2007

McGrath, Patrick, Aurora Marie Fojas, Benjamin M Rush, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Characterizing electrocatalytic surfaces: Electrochemical and NMR studies of methanol and carbon monoxide on Pt/C."Electrochimica Acta 53.3 (2007) 1365-1371. DOI

Kerlau, Marie, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Diagnostic evaluation of detrimental phenomena in 13C-labeled composite cathodes for Li-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 174.2 (2007) 1046-1051. DOI

Salminen, Justin, Nicolas Papaiconomou, R. R Anand Kumar, Jong-Min Lee, John B Kerr, John S Newman, and John M Prausnitz."Physicochemical properties and toxicities of hydrophobic piperidinium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids."Fluid Phase Equilibria 261.1-2 (2007) 421-426. DOI

Kerlau, Marie, Marek Marcinek, Venkat Srinivasan, and Robert Kostecki."Reprint of "Studies of local degradation phenomena in composite cathodes for lithium-ion batteries"."Electrochimica Acta 53.3 (2007) 1385-1392. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J, and Guoying Chen."Solid solution lithium alloy cermet anodes."Journal of Power Sources 174 (2007) 810-812. DOI

Park, Moon Jeong, Kenneth H Downing, Andrew Jackson, Enrique D Gomez, Andrew M Minor, David Cookson, Adam Z Weber, and Nitash P Balsara."Increased water retention in polymer electrolyte membranes at elevated temperatures assisted by capillary condensation."Nano Letters 7.11 (2007) 3547-3552. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, Laurence J Hardwick, Thomas J Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nano-Structured Sn/C Composite Thin-Film anodes for Li-ion Batteries."Journal of Power Sources 173.2 (2007) 965-971. DOI

Saint, Juliette A, Marca M Doeff, and John S Reed."Synthesis and electrochemistry of Li₃MnO₄: Mn in the +5 oxidation state."Journal of Power Sources 172 (2007) 189-197. DOI

Son, Jong-Tae, and Elton J Cairns."Structure and electrochemical characterization of LiNi_0.3Co_0.3Mn_0.3Fe_0.1O₂ cathode for lithium secondary battery."Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 24 (2007) 888-891. DOI

Chen, Y H, C W Wang, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Ann M Sastry."Selection of Conductive Additives in Li-Ion Battery Cathodes A Numerical Study."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 154 (2007) A978-A986. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, Xiangyun Song, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition of nano-composite C/Pt thin-films."Electrochemistry Communications 9.7 (2007) 1739-1743. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J Richardson."Metastable Solid-Solution Phases in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 154.7 (2007) A627-A632. DOI

Kerlau, Marie, Marek Marcinek, Venkat Srinivasan, and Robert Kostecki."Studies of local degradation phenomena in composite cathodes for lithium-ion batteries."Electrochimica acta 52.17 (2007) 5422-5429. DOI