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

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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1996

Ridgway, Paul L, Frank R McLarnon, and John S Newman."Sodium/Phosphorus-Sulfur Cells I. Cell Performance."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143.2 (1996) 406-411. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Sodium/Phosphorus-Sulfur Cells I. Cell Performance."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143 (1996) 406-412. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Sodium/Phosphorus-Sulfur Cells II. Phase Equilibria."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143 (1996) 412-417. DOI

Taucher, Waltraud, Thomas C Adler, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Development of lightweight nickel electrodes for zinc/nickel oxide cells."Journal of Power Sources 58.1 (1996) 93-97. DOI

Xu, Xianfan, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Richard E Russo."Nanosecond time resolved thermal emission measurements during pulse excimer laser interaction with materials."Applied Physics A 62.1 (1996) 51-59. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Charles Z Deng, Shi-Jie Wen, and Elton J Cairns."Electrochemical Behavior of Li_xMn₂O₄ and Li_xCoO₂ Thin Films Produced with Pulsed Laser Deposition."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 143.6 (1996) 1821-1827.

Wen, Shi-Jie, Thomas J Richardson, L Ma, Kathryn A Striebel, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."FTIR Spectroscopy of Metal Oxide Insertion Electrodes: A New Diagnostic Tool for Analysis of Capacity Fading in Secondary LiMn₂O₄ Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 143.6 (1996) L136-L138. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Manuel Caetano, and Mark A Shannon."Fundamental characteristics of laser-material interactions ( ablation ) in noble gases at atmospheric pressure using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy."Appl.Surf.Sci. 96-98 (1996) 144-148.

Reade, Ronald P, and Richard E Russo."Ion-Assisted Pulsed-Laser Deposition for the Fabrication of Y-Ba-Cu-O Multilayer Structures Using Oriented Intermediate Layers of YSZ and CeO₂."Applied Surface Science 96-8 (1996) 726-730.

Spear, Jonathan D, and Richard E Russo."Low noise position sensor for optical probe beam deflection measurements."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 67 (1996) 2481-2484.

1995

Shannon, Mark A, Xianglei Mao, Alberto J Fernández, Wing-Tat Chan, and Richard E Russo."Laser Ablation Mass Removal versus Incident Power Density during Solid Sampling for Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy."Analytical Chemistry 67.24 (1995) 4522-4529. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Steady-state model for an oxygen fuel cell electrode with an aqueous carbonate electrolyte."Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 34 (1995) 3632-3639. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Steven J Visco, Ma Yanping, Marcus Y Peng, Lei Ding, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Thin film solid state sodium batteries for electric vehicles."Electrochimica Acta 40 (1995) 2205-2210. DOI

Longtin, Jon P, Chang-Lin Tien, Marvin M Kilgo, and Richard E Russo."Temperature measurements during high-intensity laser-liquid interactions."Experimental Heat Transfer 8.4 (1995) 241-255. DOI

Hunt, Arlon J, Michael R Ayers, and Wanqing Cao."Aerogel composites using chemical vapor infiltration."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 185.3 (1995) 227-232. DOI

Reade, Ronald P, Paul H Berdahl, Leonard W Schaper, and Richard E Russo."Multilayer YBaCuO structures using ion-assisted intermediate layers."IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductvity 5.2 (1995) 2007-2010. DOI

Ma, Yanping, Marc Doyle, Thomas F Fuller, Marca M Doeff, Lutgard C De Jonghe, and John S Newman."The measurement of a complete set of transport properties for a concentrated solid polymer electrolyte solution."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 142 (1995) 1859-1868. DOI

Brisard, Gessie M, James D Rudnicki, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Application of probe beam deflection to study the electrooxidation of copper in alkaline media."Electrochimica Acta 40.7 (1995) 859-865. DOI

Grant, Patrick M, Richard E Whipple, Fernando Bazan, James L Brunk, Kai M Wong, Richard E Russo, and Brian D Andresen."Search for evidence of nuclear involvement in the fatal explosion of a "cold fusion" experiment."Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 193.1 (1995) 165-169. DOI

Rauhe, Bruce R, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Direct anodic oxidation of methanol on supported platinum/ruthenium catalyst in aqueous cesium carbonate."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 142 (1995) 1073-1084. DOI

Jorné, Jacob, Thomas C Adler, and Elton J Cairns."Visual observations of early shape changes in a zinc/nickel oxide cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 142 (1995) 771-774. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Lei Ding, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Electrochemical Characterization of Orthorhombic NaXMnO₂ for Alkali Metal Polymer Batteries."1995 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 393 (1995). DOI

Battaglia, Vincent S, and John S Newman."Modeling of a growing oxide film: The iron/iron oxide system."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 142.5 (1995) 1423-1430. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L, and Richard E Russo."Core-based intrinsic fiber-optic absorption sensor for the detection of volatile organic compounds."Applied Spectroscopy 49.3 (1995) 379-385.