Energy Technologies Area

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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.
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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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1994

Battaglia, Vincent S, and John S Newman."Magnetic Field Effects in High-Power Batteries II. Time Constant of a Radial Circuit Terminated by a Cylindrical Cell with Inductance."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 708-713. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A, Nenad Marković, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."Carbon monoxide electrooxidation on well-characterized platinum-ruthenium alloys."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 98.2 (1994) 617-625. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Marcus Y Peng, Yanping Ma, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Orthorhombic Na_xMnO₂ as a Cathode Material for Secondary Sodium and Lithium Polymer Batteries."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) L145-L147. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Laboratory-scale evaluation of secondary alkaline zinc batteries for electric vehicles."Journal of Power Sources 47 (1994) 1-11. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A, Nenad Marković, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."Temperature-Dependent Methanol Electro-Oxidation on Well-Characterized Pt-Ru Alloys."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 141.7 (1994) 1795-1803. DOI

Dorda, Andreas A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."The effect of zinc ions on the platinum electrode in alkaline solutions."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 364 (1994) 71-77. DOI

1993

Rudnicki, James D, Gessie M Brisard, Hubert A Gasteiger, Richard E Russo, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Effect of the supporting electrolyte and beam diameter on probe beam deflection experiments."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 362.1-2 (1993) 55-69. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Yanping Ma, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Electrochemical insertion of sodium into carbon."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 140 (1993) L169-L170. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A, Nenad Marković, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."Methanol electrooxidation on well-characterized platinum-ruthenium bulk alloys."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 97 (1993) 12020-12029. DOI

Ma, Yanping, Marca M Doeff, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Rechargeable Na/Na_xCoO₂ and Na₁₅Pb₄/Na x CoO₂ Polymer Electrolyte Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 140.10 (1993) 2726-2733. DOI

Lessner, Philip M, Frank R McLarnon, Jack Winnick, and Elton J Cairns."The Dependence of Aqueous Sulfur-Polysulfide Redox Potential on Electrolyte Composition and Temperature."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 140 (1993) 1847-1849. DOI

Visco, Steven J, Meilin Liu, Marca M Doeff, Yanping Ma, Carl M Lampert, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Polyorganodisulfide electrodes for solid-state batteries and electrochromic devices."Solid State Ionics 60.1-3 (1993) 175-187. DOI

1992

Doeff, Marca M, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."The use of redox polymerization electrodes in lithium batteries with liquid electrolytes."Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 22 (1992) 307-309. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, M M Lerner, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."The use of polydisulfides and copolymeric disulfides in the Li/PEO/SRPE battery system."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 139 (1992) 2077-2081. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Thin film rechargeable room temperature batteries using solid redox polymerization electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 139 (1992) 1808-1812. DOI

Cairns, Elton J."A new mandate for energy conversion: zero emission (electric) vehicles."IEEE 35th International Power Sources Symposium, 22-25 June 1992 (1992) 310-313. DOI

Chen, Jenn-Shing, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Investigation of low-zinc-solubility electrodes and electrolytes in zinc/silver oxide cells."Journal of Power Sources 39 (1992) 333-348. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Jan Augustynski."Unusually strong cathodic photoeffect at silver in contact with aqueous solutions containing carbon dioxide."Chemical Physics Letters 194 (1992) 386-390.

1991

Weaver, Jeffrey K, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Experimental and Theoretical Study of Concentration Distributions in a Model Pore Electrode I. Measurement of Two-Dimensional Concentration Gradients in a Zinc Model Pore."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 138 (1991) 2572-2579. DOI

Haas, Otto, James D Rudnicki, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Mechanistic investigations of redox polymer-coated electrodes using probe-beam deflection and cyclic voltammetry."Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 87.7 (1991) 939-945. DOI

1990

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Fuel Cell Cathode Studies in Aqueous K₂CO₃ and KOH."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 3360-3367. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Oxygen Reduction on Pt in Aqueous K₂CO₃ and KOH."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 3351-3359. DOI

Isaacson, Mark J, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Zinc Electrode Rest Potentials in Concentrated KOH-K₂Zn(OH)₄ Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2361-2364. DOI

Isaacson, Mark J, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Current Density and ZnO Precipitation-Dissolution Distributions in Zn-ZnO Porous Electrodes and Their Effect on Material Redistribution: A Two-Dimensional Mathematical Model."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2014-2021. DOI

Lerner, M M, Steven J Visco, M Ue, Marca M Doeff, and L C Dejonghe."Preparation and Discharge Characteristics of Solid Redox Polymerization Electrodes Employing Disulfide Polymers and Copolymers."1990 MRS Fall Meeting 210 (Symposium L – Solid State Ionics II) (1990). DOI