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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2002

Tucker, Michael C, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Rita Fiñones, Elton J Cairns, and Jeffrey A Reimer."Hyperfine fields at the Li site in LiFePO₄-type olivine materials for lithium rechargeable batteries: A ⁷Li MAS NMR and SQUID study."Journal of the American Chemical Society 124.15 (2002) 3832-3833. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Rita Fiñones, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."⁷Li and ³¹P magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance of LiFePO₄-type materials."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 5 (2002) A95-A98. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."A ⁷Li NMR study of capacity fade in metal-substituted lithium manganese oxide spinels."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 149 (2002) A574-A585. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R McLarnon."Degradation of LiNi_0.8Co_0.2O₂ Cathode Surfaces in High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 5.7 (2002) A164-A166. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, E Sakai, and Elton J Cairns."Impedance Studies of the Thin Film LiMn₂O₄/Electrolyte Interface."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 149 (2002) A61-A68. DOI

2001

Shim, Joongpyo, Chang-Rae Lee, Hong-Ki Lee, Ju-Seong Lee, and Elton J Cairns."Electrochemical characteristics of Pt-WO₃/C and Pt-TiO₂/C electrocatalysts in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell."Journal of Power Sources 102.1-2 (2001) 172-177. DOI

Zhang, Xuerong, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, James K Pugh, and Philip N Ross."Electrochemical and infrared studies of the reduction of organic carbonates."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148.12 (2001) A1341-A1345. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."A ⁷Li Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Metal-Substituted Lithium Manganese Oxide Spinels."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A951-A959. DOI

Srinivasan, Venkat, John W Weidner, and John S Newman."Hysteresis During Cycling of Nickel Hydroxide Active Material."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 148.9 (2001) A969-A980. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Abraham Anapolsky, Ludvig Edman, Thomas J Richardson, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."A high-rate manganese oxide for rechargeable lithium battery applications."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A230-A236. DOI

Braun, Artur, Soenke Seifert, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."In situ anomalous small angle X-ray scattering and absorption on an operating rechargeable lithium ion battery cell."Electrochemistry Communications 3.3 (2001) 136-141. DOI

Rush, Benjamin M, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Nuclear magnetic resonance and voltammetry studies of carbon monoxide adsorption and oxidation on a carbon-supported platinum fuel cell electrocatalyst."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A137-A148. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Xiangyun Song, Kim Kinoshita, and Frank R McLarnon."Nanoscale fabrication and modification of selected battery materials."International Workshop on Electrochemical Systems: Interfaces, Phenomena, and Nanostructures in Lithium Batteries 2000 (2001) 175-183.

Kostecki, Robert, Xiangyun Song, and Kim Kinoshita."Carbon microstructures for electrochemical studies." (2001).

2000

Horne, Craig R, Uwe Bergmann, Melissa M Grush, Rupert C.C Perera, David L Ederer, Thomas A Callcott, Elton J Cairns, and Stephen P Cramer."Electronic Structure of Chemically-Prepared Li_xMn₂O₄ Determined by Mn X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopies."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104 (2000) 9587-9596. DOI

Edman, Ludvig, Anders Ferry, and Marca M Doeff."Slow recrystallization in the polymer electrolyte system poly(ethylene oxide) _n–LiN (CF₃SO₂)2."Journal of Materials Research 15 (2000) 1950-1954. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."A ⁷Li NMR study of lithium insertion into lithium manganese oxide spinel."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 3 (2000) 463-466. DOI

Thomas, Karen E, Steven E Sloop, John B Kerr, and John S Newman."Comparison of lithium-polymer cell performance with unity and nonunity transference numbers."Journal of Power Sources 89.2 (2000) 132-138. DOI

Marmorstein, D, Ted H Yu, Kathryn A Striebel, Frank R McLarnon, Jun Hou, and Elton J Cairns."Electrochemical performance of lithium/sulfur cells with three different polymer electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 89.2 (2000) 219-226. DOI

Buriez, Olivier, Yongbong Han, Jun Hou, John B Kerr, Jun Qiao, Steven E Sloop, Minmin Tian, and Shanger Wang."Performance limitations of polymer electrolytes based on ethylene oxide polymers."Journal of Power Sources 89.2 (2000) 149-155. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Ludvig Edman, Steven E Sloop, John B Kerr, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Transport properties of binary salt polymer electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 89 (2000) 227-231. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R McLarnon."Nanometer-scale electrochemical lithography on the spinel oxide LiMn₂O₄."Applied Physics Letters 76.18 (2000) 2535-2537. DOI

Edman, Ludvig, Marca M Doeff, Anders Ferry, John B Kerr, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Transport properties of the solid polymer electrolyte system P (EO) n LiTFSI."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104 (2000) 3476-3480. DOI

Grush, Melissa M, Craig R Horne, Rupert C.C Perera, David L Ederer, Stephen P Cramer, Elton J Cairns, and Thomas A Callcott."Correlating Electronic Structure with Cycling Performance of Substituted LiMn₂O₄ Electrode Materials: A Study Using the Techniques of Soft X-ray Absorption and Emission."Chemistry of Materials 12.3 (2000) 659-664. DOI

Bidoia, Ederio D, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Investigation of anion adsorption on platinum electrodes in aqueous media by probe beam deflection."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 482.1 (2000) 75-80. DOI