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.
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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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.

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Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

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2003

Bloom, Ira, Scott A. Jones, Vincent S. Battaglia, Gary L. Henriksen, Jon P. Christophersen, Randy B. Wright, Chinh D. Ho, Jeffrey R. Belt, and Chester G. Motloch."Effect of cathode composition on capacity fade, impedance rise and power fade in high-power, lithium-ion cells."Journal of power sources 124.2 (2003) 538-550. DOI

Eriksson, Tom A., Young Joo Lee, Joel Hollingsworth, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Elton J. Cairns, Xiao-Feng Zhang, and Marca M. Doeff."Influence of substitution on the structure and electrochemistry of layered manganese oxides."Chemistry of Materials 15.23 (2003) 4456-4463. DOI

Doeff, Marca M., Yaoqin Hu, Frank R. McLarnon, and Robert Kostecki."Effect of surface carbon structure on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO₄."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 6.10 (2003) A207-A209. DOI

Song, Seung-Wan, Kathryn A. Striebel, Xiangyun Song, and Elton J. Cairns."Amorphous and nanocrystalline Mg₂Si thin-film electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 119-121 (2003) 110-112. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R. McLarnon."Microprobe study of the effect of Li intercalation on the structure of graphite."Journal of power sources 119 (2003) 550-554. DOI

Sloop, Steven E., John B. Kerr, and Kim Kinoshita."The role of Li-ion battery electrolyte reactivity in performance decline and self-discharge."Journal of Power Sources 119-121 (2003) 330-337. DOI

Eriksson, Tom A., and Marca M. Doeff."A study of layered lithium manganese oxide cathode materials."Journal of Power Sources 119 (2003) 145-149. DOI

Doeff, Marca M., Joel Hollingsworth, Joongpyo Shim, Young Joo Lee, Kathryn A. Striebel, Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns."Sulfur-doped aluminum-substituted manganese oxide spinels for lithium-ion battery applications."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 150 (2003) A1060-A1066. DOI

Edman, Ludvig, and Marca M. Doeff."Thermal analysis of a solid polymer electrolyte and a subsequent electrochemical investigation of a lithium polymer battery."Solid State Ionics 158 (2003) 177-186. DOI

Song, Seung-Wan, Kathryn A. Striebel, Ronald P. Reade, Gregory A. Roberts, and Elton J. Cairns."Electrochemical studies of nanoncrystalline Mg₂Si thin film electrodes prepared by pulsed laser deposition."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 150 (2003) A121-A127. DOI

Newman, John S., and Charles Monroe."Dendrite Growth in Lithium/Polymer Systems."Electrochemical Society 150 (2003) 1377.

Roberts, Gregory A., Elton J. Cairns, and Jeffrey A. Reimer."An Electrochemical and XRD Study of Lithium Insertion into Mechanically Alloyed Magnesium Stannide."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 150.7 (2003) A912-A916. DOI

Sandstede, Gerd, Elton J. Cairns, Vladimir S. Bagotsky, Klaus Wiesener, Wolf Vielstich, Arnold Lamm, and Hubert A. Gasteiger."General scientiﬁc background before and during the beginning of fuel cell research."Handbook of Fuel Cells Fundamentals, Technology and Applications (2003) 143-219.

2002

Han, Kyoo-Seung, Seung-Wan Song, Hirofumi Fujita, Masahiro Yoshimura, Elton J. Cairns, and Soon-Ho Chang."Direct Electroplating of Lithium Cobalt Oxide Film on Platinum Substrate in 100°–200°C Aqueous Solution."Journal of the American Ceramic Society 85 (2002) 2444-2448. DOI

Shim, Joongpyo, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J. Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Kathryn A. Striebel."Electrochemical and physical analysis of a Li-ion cell cycled at elevated temperature."Journal of Power Sources 112.1 (2002) 222-230. DOI

Braun, Artur, Hongxin Wang, Uwe Bergmann, Michael C. Tucker, Weiwei Gu, Stephen P. Cramer, and Elton J. Cairns."Origin of chemical shift of manganese in lithium battery electrode materials—a comparison of hard and soft X-ray techniques."Journal of Power Sources 112.1 (2002) 231-235. DOI

Doeff, Marca M., Thomas J. Richardson, Joel Hollingsworth, Chun-Wei Yuan, and Marcela Gonzales."Synthesis and characterization of a copper-substituted manganese oxide with the Na_0.44MnO₂ structure."Journal of power sources 112 (2002) 294-297. DOI

Christophersen, Jon P., David F. Glenn, Chester G. Motloch, Randy B. Wright, Chinh D. Ho, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy testing on the Advanced Technology Development Program lithium-ion cells."Vehicular Technology Conference 3 (2002) 1851-1855. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Lenz Kroeck, Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns."The Influence of Covalence on Capacity Retention in Metal-Substituted Spinels ⁷Li NMR, SQUID, and Electrochemical Studies."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 149 (2002) A1409-A1413. DOI

Bloom, Ira, Scott A. Jones, Edward G. Polzin, Vincent S. Battaglia, Gary L. Henriksen, Chester G. Motloch, Randy B. Wright, Rudolph G. Jungst, Herbert L. Case, and Daniel H. Doughty."Mechanisms of impedance rise in high-power, lithium-ion cells."Journal of power sources 111.1 (2002) 152-159. DOI

Ben Wright, Wright, Randy Ben, Chester G. Motloch, Jeffrey R. Belt, Jon P. Christophersen, Chinh D. Ho, Roger A. Richardson, Ira Bloom, Scott A. Jones, Vincent S. Battaglia, Gary L. Henriksen, Terry Unkelhaeuser, David Ingersoll, Herbert L. Case, Susan A. Rogers, and Raymond A. Sutula."Calendar-and cycle-life studies of advanced technology development program generation 1 lithium-ion batteries."Journal of power sources 110.2 (2002) 445-470. DOI

Dees, Dennis W., Vincent S. Battaglia, and André Bélanger."Electrochemical modeling of lithium polymer batteries."Journal of power sources 110.2 (2002) 310-320. DOI

Shim, Joongpyo, Kathryn A. Striebel, and Elton J. Cairns."The lithium/sulfur rechargeable cell effects of electrode composition and solvent on cell performance."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 149 (2002) A1321-A1325. DOI

Roberts, Gregory A., Elton J. Cairns, and Jeffrey A. Reimer."Magnesium silicide as a negative electrode material for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 110.2 (2002) 424-429. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Marca M. Doeff, Thomas J. Richardson, Rita Fiñones, Elton J. Cairns, and Jeffrey A. Reimer."Hyperfine fields at the Li site in LiFePO₄-type olivine materials for lithium rechargeable batteries: A ⁷Li MAS NMR and SQUID study."Journal of the American Chemical Society 124.15 (2002) 3832-3833. DOI