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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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1997

Richardson, Thomas J, Shi-Jie Wen, Kathryn A Striebel, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."FTIR spectroscopy of metal oxide insertion materials: Analysis of LixMn2O4 spinel electrodes."Materials Research Bulletin 32.5 (1997) 609-618. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Anders Ferry, Yanping Ma, Lei Ding, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Effect of electrolyte composition on the performance of sodium/polymer cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 144 (1997) L20-L22. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R McLarnon."In Situ Raman Investigation of Hydrous Nickel Oxide Films with Various Additives in Concentrated Alkaline Electrolytes."Symposium on Electrode Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage IV 97 (1997).

Mao, Xianglei, and Richard E Russo."Observation of plasma shielding by measuring transmitted and reflected laser pulse temporal profiles."Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 64.1 (1997) 1-6. DOI

Black, Douglas R, Brett C Singer, Robert A Harley, Philip T Martien, and Amir K Fanai."A fuel-based motor vehicle emission inventory for the San Francisco Bay Area."90th Annual Meeting of the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1997).

Keeney, Kevin, and James E Braun."Application of Building Precooling to Reduce Peak Cooling Requirements."ASHRAE Transactions 103.1 (1997) 463-469.

Russo, Richard E, John C Miller, and Marcel Dekker."Laser Ablation for Chemical Analysis."Laser Ablation: Fundamentals and Applications (1997).

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Laser Heating of Metal Targets Including the Influence of the Background Pressure."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 351 (1997) 63-73.

Shannon, Mark A, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Monitoring laser-energy coupling to solid materials: Plasma-shielding and phase change."Materials Science and Engineering B-Solid State Materials for Advanced Technology 45 (1997) 172-179.

Striebel, Kathryn A, Shi-Jie Wen, Dania I Ghantous, and Elton J Cairns."Novel Nanodisperse Composite Cathode for Rechargeable Lithium/Polymer Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 144.5 (1997) 1680-1685. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, and Richard E Russo."Optimization and calibration of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry by measuring vertical spatial intensity profiles."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 12.2 (1997) 177-182. DOI

Einarsdotter, Kristin, Babak Sadigh, Goran Grimvall, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, and Kristin A Persson."Phonon Instabilities in fcc and bcc Tungsten."Physical Review Letters 79.11 (1997) 2073 - 2076. DOI

Lee, Churl Kyoung, Kathryn A Striebel, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Thermal Treatment of La_0.6Ca_0.4CoO₃ Perovskites for Bifunctional Air Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 144.11 (1997) 3801-3806. DOI

Cairns, Elton J, Craig R Horne, B.J.R Weiss, Melissa M Grush, Stephen P Cramer, O Savadogo, and Pierre R Roberge."X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Investigations of Li_xMn₂O₄."New Materials for Fuel Cell and Modern Battery Systems II (1997).

1996

Stallworth, P, S Greenbaum, Yanping Ma, Lei Ding, Marca M Doeff, and Steven J Visco."²³Na-NMR studies of Na_xCoO₂ cathode materials."Solid State Ionics 86-88 (1996) 797-803. DOI

Yahnke, Mark S, Benjamin M Rush, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Quantitative solid-state NMR spectra of CO adsorbed from aqueous solution onto a commercial electrode."Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (1996) 12250-12251. DOI

Bédat, Benoit, and Robert K Cheng."Effects of buoyancy on premixed flame stabilization."Combustion and Flame 107.1-2 (1996) 13-26. DOI

Caetano, Manuel, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation solid sampling: Vertical spatial emission intensity profiles in inductively coupled plasma."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 51.12 (1996) 1473-1485. DOI

Shannon, Mark A, Boris Rubinsky, and Richard E Russo."Mechanical stress power measurements during high-power laser ablation."Journal of Applied Physics 80.8 (1996) 4665-4672. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Thomas J Richardson, and Larry Kepley."Lithium Insertion Processes of Orthorhombic Na_xMnO₂-Based Electrode Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 143 (1996) 2507-2516. DOI

Wen, Shi-Jie, Thomas J Richardson, Dania I Ghantous, Kathryn A Striebel, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."FTIR characterization of PEO + LiN(CF₃SO₂)₂ electrolytes."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 408.1-2 (1996) 113-118. DOI

Deng, Zhongyi, Jonathan D Spear, James D Rudnicki, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Infrared photothermal deflection spectroscopy: A new probe for the investigation of electrochemical interfaces."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143.5 (1996) 1514-1521. DOI

Jeong, Sungho, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Laser heating of a cavity versus a plane surface for metal targets utilizing photothermal deflection measurements."Journal of Applied Physics 80.4 (1996) 1996-2002. DOI

Shannon, Mark A, and Richard E Russo."Monitoring stress power during high-power pulsed laser-material interactions."Applied Surface Science 96-98 (1996) 149-153.

Mao, Xianglei, Wing-Tat Chan, Manuel Caetano, Mark A Shannon, and Richard E Russo."Preferential vaporization and plasma shielding during nano-second laser ablation."Applied Surface Science 96-98 (1996) 126-130. DOI