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

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2014

Oh, Yuhong, Seunghoon Nam, Sungun Wi, Joonhyeon Kang, Taehyun Hwang, Sangheon Lee, Helen H Park, Jordi Cabana, Chunjoong Kim, and Byungwoo Park."Effective wrapping of graphene on individual Li₄Ti₅O₁₂ grains for high-rate Li-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2 (2014) 2023-2027. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zitao Li, Yuchun Zhai, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Microsized single-crystal spinel LAMO for high-power lithium ion batteries synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 248 (2014) 22-27. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Joong Sun Park, Huaming Hou, Vassilia Zorba, Guoying Chen, Thomas J Richardson, Jordi Cabana, Richard E Russo, and Marca M Doeff."Effect of microstructure and surface impurity segregation on the electrical and electrochemical properties of dense Al-substituted Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2.1 (2014) 172-181. DOI

Syzdek, Jaroslaw S, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Electrochemical activity of carbon blacks in LiPF_6-based organic electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 245 (2014) 739-744. DOI

Pascal, Tod A, Ulrike Boesenberg, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Eamon McDermott, Alexander Moewes, Jordi Cabana, and David G Prendergast."Finite temperature effects on the X-ray absorption spectra of lithium compounds: First-principles interpretation of X-ray Raman measurements."The Journal of Chemical Physics 140.3 (2014). DOI

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L Ridgway, Venkat Srinivasan, and Vincent S Battaglia."Measurements and Simulations of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of a Three-Electrode Coin Cell Design for Li-Ion Cell Testing."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.9 (2014) A1253 - A1260. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Sang-Jae Park, Feifei Shi, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Philip N Ross, and Gao Liu."Propylene Carbonate (PC)-Based Electrolytes with High Coulombic Efficiency for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161.1 (2014) A194-A200. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Jordi Cabana, and Mona Shirpour."Titanate Anodes for Sodium Ion Batteries."Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials 24.1 (2014) 5-14. DOI

Imholt, Laura, Simon F Lux, Hinrich W Meyer, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."The Effect of Linear Carbonates on HF Formation in LiPF₆-based Electrolytes."ECS Transactions 58.15 (2014) 1-5. DOI

2013

Song, Min-Kyu, Yuegang Zhang, and Elton J Cairns."A long-life, high-rate lithium/sulfur cell: a multifaceted approach to enhancing cell performance."Nano Letters 13 (2013) 5891-5899. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Guoying Chen, Jordi Cabana, Thomas J Richardson, Apurva Mehta, Mona Shirpour, Hugues Duncan, Chunjoong Kim, Kinson C Kam, and Thomas E Conry."Characterization of Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion and Sodium Ion Batteries using Synchrotron Radiation Techniques."Journal of Visualized Experiments (2013). DOI

Teh, Pei Fen, Stevin S Pramana, Chunjoong Kim, Chieh-Ming Chen, Cheng-Hao Chuang, Yogesh Sharma, Jordi Cabana, and Srinivasan Madhavi."Electrochemical Reactivity with Lithium of Spinel-type ZnFe_2–yCr_yO₄ (0≤ y≤ 2)."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117.46 (2013) 24213-24223. DOI

Kim, Chunjoong, Raffaella Buonsanti, Riley Yaylian, Delia J Milliron, and Jordi Cabana."Carbon-Free TiO₂ Battery Electrodes Enabled by Morphological Control at the Nanoscale."Advanced Energy Materials 3 (2013) 1286-1291. DOI

Lux, Simon F, Julie S Chevalier, Ivan T Lucas, and Robert Kostecki."HF Formation in LiPF₆-Based Organic Carbonate Electrolytes."ECS Electrochemistry Letters 2.12 (2013) A121-A123. DOI

Lin, Zhan, Caiyun Nan, Yifan Ye, Jinghua Guo, Junfa Zhu, and Elton J Cairns."High Performance Lithium/Sulfur Cells with a Bi-functionally Immobilized Sulfur Cathode."Nano Energy 9 (2013) 408-416. DOI

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Paul Albertus, Vincent S Battaglia, Aleksandar Kojic, Venkat Srinivasan, and Adam Z Weber."Optimization and Analysis of High-Power Hydrogen/Bromine-Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage."Energy Technology 1.10 (2013) 596 - 608. DOI

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, Luis Lezama, Chunjoong Kim, Marca M Doeff, Jordi Cabana, and Teófilo Rojo."Effect of Si (iv) substitution on electrochemical, magnetic and spectroscopic performance of nanosized LiMn_2-xSi_xO₄."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1.36 (2013) 10857-10862. DOI

Norberg, Nick S, Simon F Lux, and Robert Kostecki."Interfacial side-reactions at a LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ electrode in organic carbonate-based electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 34 (2013) 29-32. DOI

Nadimpalli, Siva P. V, Vijay A Sethuraman, Giovanna Bucci, Venkat Srinivasan, Allan F Bower, and Pradeep R Guduru."On plastic deformation and fracture in Si films during electrochemical lithiation/delithiation cycling."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.10 (2013) A1885-A1893. DOI

Liu, Xiaosong, Dongdong Wang, Gao Liu, Venkat Srinivasan, Zhi Liu, Zahid Hussain, and Wanli Yang."Distinct charge dynamics in battery electrodes revealed by in situ and operando soft X-ray spectroscopy."Nature communications 4 (2013). DOI

Shirpour, Mona, Jordi Cabana, and Marca M Doeff."New materials based on a layered sodium titanate for dual electrochemical Na and Li intercalation systems."Energy & Environmental Science 6.8 (2013) 2538-2547. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Natasha A Chernova, Jie Xiao, Megan Roppolo, Kellie A Aldi, M. M Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P Grey."Study of the Transition Metal Ordering in Layered Na_xNi_x/2Mn_1–x/2O₂ (2/3≤x≤1) and Consequences of Na/Li Exchange."Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013) 8540-8550. DOI

Wu, Mingyan, Xingcheng Xiao, Nenad Vukmirovic, Shidi Xun, Prodip K Das, Xiangyun Song, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Dongdong Wang, Adam Z Weber, Lin-Wang Wang, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Toward an Ideal Polymer Binder Design for High-Capacity Battery Anodes."J Am Chem Soc 135.32 (2013) 12048-56. DOI

Patel, Shrayesh N, Anna E Javier, and Nitash P Balsara."Electrochemically Oxidized Electronic and Ionic Conducting Nanostructured Block Copolymers for Lithium Battery Electrodes."ACS Nano 7 (2013) 6056-6068. DOI

Gurevitch, Inna, Raffaella Buonsanti, Alexander A Teran, Bernd Gludovatz, Robert O Ritchie, Jordi Cabana, and Nitash P Balsara."Nanocomposites of Titanium Dioxide and Polystyrene-Poly (ethylene oxide) Block Copolymer as Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160 (2013) A1611-A1617. DOI