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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2005

Parkhutik, Vitali, Eugenia Matveeva, Yuri Makushok, Emilio Rayon, and Thomas J Richardson."Optical and Electrical Properties of Mg/Ni Alloy Subjected to Electrochemical Hydrogenation."The Electrochemical Society 152.12 (2005) H209-H212. DOI

Haas, Otto, Aniruddha Deb, Elton J Cairns, and Alexander Wokaun."Synchrotron X-Ray Absorption Study of LiFePO₄ Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 152.1 (2005) A191-A196. DOI

Monroe, Charles, and John S Newman."The Impact of Elastic Deformation on Deposition Kinetics at Lithium /Polymer Interfaces."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 152.2 (2005) A369-A404. DOI

2004

Dolle, Mickaël, Joel Hollingsworth, Thomas J Richardson, and Marca M Doeff."Investigation of layered intergrowth Li_xM_yMn_1-yO_2+z (M= Ni, Co, Al) compounds as positive electrodes for Li-ion batteries."Solid State Ionics 175 (2004) 225-228. DOI

Xie, Jiangbing, Robert G Duan, Yongbong Han, and John B Kerr."Morphological, rheological and electrochemical studies of Poly(ethylene oxide) electrolytes containing fumed silica nanoparticles."Solid State Ionics 175.1-4 (2004) 755-758. DOI

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Elton J Cairns, and Stephen P Cramer."X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the Li_xFePO₄ cathode during cycling using a novel electrochemical in situ reaction cell."Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 11 (2004) 497-504. DOI

Srinivasan, Venkat, and John S Newman."Design and optimization of a natural graphite/iron phosphate lithium-ion cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.10 (2004) A1530-A1538. DOI

Srinivasan, Venkat, and John S Newman."Discharge model for the lithium iron-phosphate electrode."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.10 (2004) A1517-A1529. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Thomas J Richardson, and Kwang-Taek Hwang."Electrochemical and structural characterization of titanium-substituted manganese oxides based on Na_0.44MnO₂."Journal of Power Sources 135 (2004) 240-248. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R McLarnon."Local-Probe Studies of Degradation of Composite LiNi_0.8Co_0.15Al_0.05O₂ Cathodes in High-Power Lithium-Ion Cells."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 7.10 (2004) A380-A383. DOI

Patoux, Sébastien, and Marca M Doeff."Direct synthesis of LiNi_1/3Co_1/3Mn_1/3O₂ from nitrate precursors."Electrochemistry Communications 6.8 (2004) 767-772. DOI

Zhuang, Guorong V, Guoying Chen, Joongpyo Shim, Xiangyun Song, Philip N Ross, and Thomas J Richardson."Li₂CO₃ in LiNi_0.8Co_0.15AI_0.05O₂ cathodes and its effects on capacity and power."Journal of power sources 134 (2004) 293-297. DOI

Dı́az-Morales, Robert R, Renxuan Liu, Esteban Fachini, Guoying Chen, Carlo U Segre, Antonio Martı́nez, Carlos Cabrera, and Eugene S Smotkin."XRD and XPS analysis of as-prepared and conditioned DMFC array membrane electrode assemblies."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.9 (2004) A1314-A1318. DOI

Hu, Yaoqin, Marca M Doeff, Robert Kostecki, and Rita Fiñones."Electrochemical performance of sol-gel synthesized LiFePO₄ in lithium batteries."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.8 (2004) A1279-A1285. DOI

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Elton J Cairns, and Stephen P Cramer."Structural investigations of LiFePO₄ electrodes by Fe X-ray absorption spectroscopy."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 7046-7051. DOI

Song, Seung-Wan, Ronald P Reade, Elton J Cairns, Jack T Vaughey, Michael M Thackeray, and Kathryn A Striebel."Cu₂Sb thin-film electrodes prepared by pulsed laser deposition for lithium batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151 (2004) A1012-A1019. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Joongpyo Shim, Elton J Cairns, Robert Kostecki, Young Joo Lee, Jeffrey A Reimer, Thomas J Richardson, Philip N Ross, Xiangyun Song, and Guorong V Zhuang."Diagnostic analysis of electrodes from high-power lithium-ion cells cycled under different conditions."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.6 (2004) A857-A866. DOI

Hu, Felix, and Marca M Doeff."Electrochemical characterization of manganese oxide cathode materials based on Na_0.4MnO₂."Journal of Power Sources 129 (2004) 296-302. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Laura Norin, Xiangyun Song, and Frank R McLarnon."Diagnostic studies of polyolefin separators in high-power Li-ion cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A522-A526. DOI

Thomas-Alyea, Karen E, John S Newman, Guoying Chen, and Thomas J Richardson."Modeling the behavior of electroactive polymers for overcharge protection of lithium batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A509-A521. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Overcharge protection for rechargeable lithium batteries using electroactive polymers."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 7.2 (2004) A23-A26. DOI

Christensen, John, and John S Newman."A Mathematical Model for the Lithium-Ion Negative Electrode Solid Electrolyte Interphase."Electrochemical Society 151 (2004) A1977.

Cairns, Elton J, and Cutler J Cleveland."Batteries, Overview."Encyclopedia of Energy 1 (2004) 117 - 126. DOI

Roberts, Gregory A, Elton J Cairns, and Jeffrey A Reimer."Mechanism of Lithium Insertion into Magnesium Silicide."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A493-A496. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R McLarnon."Power and Capacity Fade Mechanism of LiNi_0.8Co_0.15Al_0.05O₂ Composite Cathodes in High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries."International Symposium on Lithium and Lithium-ion Batteries (2004) 114-119.