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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2016

Ai, Guo, Yiling Dai, Wenfeng Mao, Hui Zhao, Yanbao Fu, Xiangyun Song, Yunfei En, Vincent S Battaglia, Venkat Srinivasan, and Gao Liu."Biomimetic Ant-Nest Electrode Structures for High Sulfur Ratio Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."Nano Letters 16.9 (2016) 5365 - 5372. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Qing Yang, Neslihan Yuca, Min Ling, Kenneth Higa, Vincent S Battaglia, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Venkat Srinivasan, and Gao Liu."A Convenient and Versatile Method To Control the Electrode Microstructure toward High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries."Nano Letters 16.7 (2016) 4686 - 4690. DOI

Mao, Jing, Kehua Dai, Minjie Xuan, Guosheng Shao, Ruimin Qiao, Wanli Yang, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Effect of Chromium and Niobium Doping on the Morphology and Electrochemical Performance of High-Voltage Spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ Cathode Material."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.14 (2016) 9116 - 9124. DOI

Feng, Yan, Yuliang Zhang, Yuzhen Wei, Xiangyun Song, Yanbo Fu, and Vincent S Battaglia."A ZnS nanocrystal/reduced graphene oxide composite anode with enhanced electrochemical performances for lithium-ion batteries."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18.44 (2016) 30630 - 30642. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Allen Du, Min Ling, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive polymer binder for nano-silicon/graphite composite electrode in lithium-ion batteries towards a practical application."Electrochimica Acta 209 (2016) 159 - 162. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Yanbao Fu, Min Ling, Zhe Jia, Xiangyun Song, Zonghai Chen, Jun Lu, Khalil Amine, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder-Enabled SiO–Sn_x Co_yC_zAnode for High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.21 (2016) 13373 - 13377. DOI

Ai, Guo, Zhihui Wang, Yiling Dai, Wenfeng Mao, Hui Zhao, Yanbao Fu, Yunfei En, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Improving the over-all performance of Li-S batteries via electrolyte optimization with consideration of loading condition."Electrochimica Acta 218 (2016) 1 - 7. DOI

Ai, Guo, Zhihui Wang, Hui Zhao, Wenfeng Mao, Yanbao Fu, Ran Yi, Yue Gao, Vincent S Battaglia, Donghai Wang, Sergey Lopatin, and Gao Liu."Scalable process for application of stabilized lithium metal powder in Li-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 309 (2016) 33 - 41. DOI

Mao, Jing, Mengze Ma, Panpan Liu, Junhua Hu, Guosheng Shao, Vincent S Battaglia, Kehua Dai, and Gao Liu."The effect of cobalt doping on the morphology and electrochemical performance of high-voltage spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄cathode material."Solid State Ionics 292 (2016) 70 - 74. DOI

2015

Feng, Caihong, Le Zhang, Menghuan Yang, Xiangyun Song, Hui Zhao, Zhe Jia, Kening Sun, and Gao Liu."One-Pot Synthesis of Copper Sulfide Nanowires/Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites with Excellent Lithium-Storage Properties as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.29 (2015) 15726 - 15734. DOI

Park, Sang-Jae, Hui Zhao, Guo Ai, Cheng Wang, Xiangyun Song, Neslihan Yuca, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Side-Chain Conducting and Phase-Separated Polymeric Binders for High-Performance Silicon Anodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries."Journal of the American Chemical Society 137.7 (2015) 2565 - 2571. DOI

Lucas, Ivan T, A S McLeod, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, D S Middlemiss, Clare P Grey, D N Basov, and Robert Kostecki."IR Near-Field Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Li_xFePO₄ Microcrystals."Nano Letters 15.1 (2015) 1 - 7. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Neslihan Yuca, Ziyan Zheng, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Guerfi Abdelbast, Karim Zaghib, and Gao Liu."High Capacity and High Density Functional Conductive Polymer and SiO Anode for High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.1 (2015) 862 - 866. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Yang Wei, Ruimin Qiao, Chenhui Zhu, Ziyan Zheng, Min Ling, Zhe Jia, Ying Bai, Yanbao Fu, Jinglei Lei, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, Phillip B Messersmith, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder for High-Tap-Density Nanosilicon Material for Lithium-Ion Battery Negative Electrode Application."Nano Letters 15.12 (2015) 7927 - 7932. DOI

Ai, Guo, Yiling Dai, Yifan Ye, Wenfeng Mao, Zhihui Wang, Hui Zhao, Yulin Chen, Junfa Zhu, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Jinghua Guo, Venkat Srinivasan, and Gao Liu."Investigation of surface effects through the application of the functional binders in lithium sulfur batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 28-37. DOI

Vogl, Ulrike S, Simon F Lux, Prodip K Das, Adam Z Weber, Tobias Placke, Robert Kostecki, and Martin Winter."The Mechanism of SEI Formation on Single Crystal Si(100), Si(110) and Si(111) Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 162.12 (2015) A2281 - A2288. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Cheng Hao Wu, Angelique Jarry, Wei Chen, Yifan Ye, Junfa Zhu, Robert Kostecki, Kristin A Persson, Jinghua Guo, Miquel Salmeron, Guoying Chen, and Marca M Doeff."Interrelationships among Grain Size, Surface Composition, Air Stability, and Interfacial Resistance of Al-Substituted LiLa...."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.32 (2015) 17649 - 17655. DOI

Ayache, Maurice, Dongyoun Jang, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, and Robert Kostecki."Near-Field IR Nanoscale Imaging of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase on a HOPG Electrode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 162.13 (2015) A7078 - A7082. DOI

Mao, Wenfeng, Yanbao Fu, Hui Zhao, Guo Ai, Yiling Dai, Dechao Meng, Xin-he Zhang, Deyang Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Zhi-yuan Tang."Rational Design and Facial Synthesis of Li₃V₂(PO₄)₃@C Nanocomposites Using Carbon with Different Dimensions for Ultrahigh-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (2015) 12057-12066. DOI

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, I Orue, Izaskun Gil de Muro, Luis Lezama, Marca M Doeff, and Teófilo Rojo."Effect of Carbon Coating on the Physicochemical and Electrochemical Properties of Fe₂O₃ Nanoparticles for Anode Application in High Performance Lithium Ion Batteries."Inorganic Chemistry 54.11 (2015) 5239–5248. DOI

Ling, Min, Yanan Xu, Hui Zhao, Xingxing Gu, Jingxia Qiu, Sheng Li, Mingyan Wu, Xiangyun Song, Cheng Yan, Gao Liu, and Shanqing Zhang."Dual-functional gum arabic binder for silicon anodes in lithium ion batteries."Nano Energy 12 (2015) 178-185. DOI

Ayache, Maurice, Simon F Lux, and Robert Kostecki."IR Near-Field Study of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase on a Tin Electrode."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (2015) 1126-1129. DOI

Park, Joong Sun, Lei Cheng, Vassilia Zorba, Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Jung Hoon Park, Ji-Won Son, and Wan-Shick Hong."Effects of Crystallinity and Impurities on the Electrical Conductivity of Li-La-Zr-O Thin Films."Thin Solid Films 576 (2015) 55-60. DOI

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, Izaskun Gil de Muro, Luis Lezama, Chunjoong Kim, Marca M Doeff, Jordi Cabana, and Teófilo Rojo."High-Voltage Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Freeze-Dried LiMn_0.8Fe_0.1M_0.1PO₄/C (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) Nanocomposites."Inorganic Chemistry 54.6 (2015) 2671–2678. DOI