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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2018

Ruan, Yanli, Xiangyun Song, Yanbao Fu, Chengyu Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Structural evolution and capacity degradation mechanism of LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 cathode materials."Journal of Power Sources 400 (2018) 539 - 548. DOI

Wei, Chenxi, Yan Zhang, Sang-Jun Lee, Linqin Mu, Jin Liu, Chenxu Wang, Yang Yang, Marca M Doeff, Piero Pianetta, Dennis Nordlund, Xi-Wen Du, Yangchao Tian, Kejie Zhao, Jun-Sik Lee, Feng Lin, and Yijin Liu."Thermally driven mesoscale chemomechanical interplay in Li _0.5 Ni _0.6Mn _0.2Co _0.2O ₂ cathode materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6.45 (2018) 23055 - 23061. DOI

Spernjak, Dusan, Rangachary Mukundan, Rodney L Borup, Liam G Connolly, Benjamin I Zackin, Vincent De Andrade, Michael Wojcik, Dilworth Y Parkinson, David L Jacobson, Daniel S Hussey, Karren L More, Thomas Chan, Adam Z Weber, and Iryna V Zenyuk."Enhanced Water Management of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Additive-Containing Microporous Layers."ACS Applied Energy Materials (2018). DOI

Ye, Weike, Chi Chen, Shyam S Dwaraknath, Anubhav Jain, Shyue Ping Ong, and Kristin A Persson."Harnessing the Materials Project for machine-learning and accelerated discoveryAbstract."MRS Bulletin 43.9 (2018) 664 - 669. DOI

Kim, Bae-Jung, Xi Cheng, Daniel F Abbott, Emiliana Fabbri, Francesco Bozza, Thomas Graule, Ivano E Castelli, Luke Wiles, Nemanja Danilovic, Katherine E Ayers, Nicola Marzari, and Thomas J Schmidt."Highly Active Nanoperovskite Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: Insights into Activity and Stability of Ba _0.5Sr_0.5Co _0.8Fe_0.2O _2+δ and PrBaCo₂O_5+δ."Advanced Functional Materials 28.45 (2018) 1804355. DOI

Wenzel, George, Matias Negrete-Pincetic, Daniel E Olivares, Jason S MacDonald, and Duncan S Callaway."Real-Time Charging Strategies for an Electric Vehicle Aggregator to Provide Ancillary Services."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9.5 (2018) 5141 - 5151. DOI

Tesfaye, Meron, Douglas I Kushner, Bryan D McCloskey, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Thermal Transitions in Perfluorosulfonated Ionomer Thin-Films."ACS Macro Letters (2018) 1237 - 1242. DOI

Kan, Wang Hay, Biao Deng, Yahong Xu, Alpesh Khushalcha Shukla, Tao Bo, Shuo Zhang, Jin Liu, Piero Pianetta, Bao-Tian Wang, Yijin Liu, and Guoying Chen."Understanding the Effect of Local Short-Range Ordering on Lithium Diffusion in Li_1.3Nb_0.3Mn_0.4O₂ Single-Crystal Cathode."Chem 4.9 (2018) 2108 - 2123. DOI

Abreu, C, D Rua, P Machado, J A. Pecas Lopes, and Miguel Heleno."Advanced Energy Management for Demand Response and Microgeneration Integration."2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC)2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) (2018). DOI

Tucker, Michael C."Dynamic-temperature operation of metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 395 (2018) 314 - 317. DOI

Guo, Yijun, Manish K Mishra, Futianyi Wang, Joseph Jankolovits, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z Weber, Ant Van Dyk, Kebede Beshah, James C Bohling, John A Roper III, Clayton J Radke, and Alexander Katz."Hydrophobic Inorganic Oxide Pigments via Polymethylhydrosiloxane Grafting: Dispersion in Aqueous Solution at Extraordinarily High Solids Concentrations."Langmuir (2018). DOI

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, and Venkat Srinivasan."Impact of External Pressure and Electrolyte Transport Properties on Lithium Dendrite Growth."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.11 (2018) A2654 - A2666. DOI

Kim, Haegyeom, Dong-Hwa Seo, Alexander Urban, Jinhyuk Lee, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Shou-Hang Bo, Tan Shi, Joseph K Papp, Bryan D McCloskey, and Gerbrand Ceder."Stoichiometric Layered Potassium Transition Metal Oxide for Rechargeable Potassium BatteriesStoichiometric Layered Potassium Transition Metal Oxide for Rechargeable Potassium Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 30.18 (2018) 6532 - 6539. DOI

Kim, Youngsang, Erin B Creel, Elizabeth R Corson, Bryan D McCloskey, Jeffrey J Urban, and Robert Kostecki."Surface-Plasmon-Assisted Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO₂ and NO₃⁻on Nanostructured Silver Electrodes."Advanced Energy Materials 8.22 (2018) 1800363. DOI

Gerhardt, Michael R, Andrew A Wong, and Michael J Aziz."The Effect of Interdigitated Channel and Land Dimensions on Flow Cell Performance."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.11 (2018) A2625 - A2643. DOI

Winter, I S, J Montoya, Kristin A Persson, and D C Chrzan."Ab initio calculation of thermal expansion with application to understanding Invar behavior in gum metal."Physical Review Materials 2.7 (2018). DOI

Hutchison, Danielle C, Rebecca D Stern, Morgan R Olsen, Lev N Zakharov, Kristin A Persson, and May Nyman."Alkyltin clusters: the less symmetric Keggin isomers."Dalton Transactions 47.29 (2018) 9804 - 9813. DOI

Steinbach, Andrew J, Jeffrey S Allen, Rodney L Borup, Daniel S Hussey, David L Jacobson, Andrei Komlev, Anthony Kwong, James C MacDonald, Rangachary Mukundan, Matt J Pejsa, Michael Roos, Anthony D Santamaria, James M Sieracki, Dusan Spernjak, Iryna V Zenyuk, and Adam Z Weber."Anode-Design Strategies for Improved Performance of Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Ultra-Thin Electrodes."Joule 2.7 (2018) 1297 - 1312. DOI

Moreira, Alexandre, Bruno Fanzeres, and Goran Strbac."Energy and reserve scheduling under ambiguity on renewable probability distribution."Electric Power Systems Research 160 (2018) 205 - 218. DOI

Hahn, Nathan T, Trevor J Seguin, Ka-Cheong Lau, Chen Liao, Brian J Ingram, Kristin A Persson, and Kevin R Zavadil."Enhanced Stability of the Carba- closo -dodecaborate Anion for High-Voltage Battery Electrolytes through Rational Design."Journal of the American Chemical Society 140.35 (2018) 11076 - 11084. DOI

Latimer, Katherine, Shyam S Dwaraknath, Kiran Mathew, Donald Winston, and Kristin A Persson."Evaluation of thermodynamic equations of state across chemistry and structure in the materials project."npj Computational Materials 4.1 (2018). DOI

Liu, Niantao, Xamxikamar Mamat, Ruyuan Jiang, Wei Tong, Yudai Huang, Dianzeng Jia, Yongtao Li, Lei Wang, Thomas Wågberg, and Guangzhi Hu."Facile high-voltage sputtering synthesis of three-dimensional hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped carbon coated Si composite for high performance lithium-ion batteries."Chemical Engineering Journal 343 (2018) 78 - 85. DOI

Mathew, Kiran, Chen Zheng, Donald Winston, Chi Chen, Alan Dozier, John J Rehr, Shyue Ping Ong, and Kristin A Persson."High-throughput computational X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Scientific Data 5 (2018) 180151. DOI

Berlinger, Sarah A, Bryan D McCloskey, and Adam Z Weber."Inherent Acidity of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomer Dispersions and Implications for Ink Aggregation."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122.31 (2018) 7790 - 7796. DOI

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Miguel Heleno, and Nicholas DeForest."ROMDST - An Optimal Design Support Tool for Remote, Resilient, and Reliable Microgrids, Phase II - Final Report." (2018).