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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.

Doug Kushner

Doug Kushner

Materials Project Scientist/Engineer

(510) 486-5850

DKushner@lbl.gov

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Awards

2020 R&D 100 Award: Microelectrode Cell - October 05th 2020

A Tool to Accelerate Electrochemical and Solid-State Innovation

Berkeley Lab scientists invented a microelectrode cell to analyze and test electrochemical systems with solid electrolytes. Thanks to significant cost and performance advantages, this tool can accelerate development of critical applications such as energy storage and conversion (fuel cells, batteries, electrolyzers), carbon capture, desalination, and industrial decarbonization.

Solid electrolytes have been displacing liquid electrolytes as the focus of electrochemical innovation because of their performance, safety, and cost advantages. However, the lack of effective methods and equipment for studying solid electrolytes has hindered advancement of the technologies that employ them. This microelectrode cell meets the testing needs, and is already being used by Berkeley Lab scientists.

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https://appliedenergyscience.lbl.gov/news/article/energy-technologies-area-2020-rd100

Spot: Douglas Kushner - October 25th 2019

For the development of a novel microelectrode setup.

Publications

2023

Anion exchange membranes: The effect of reinforcement in water and electrolyte

Authors: Luo, , Xiaoyan; Douglas I. Kushner, and Ahmet Kusoglu.

11/2023

2021

Method—Using Microelectrodes to Explore Solid Polymer Electrolytes

Authors: Petrovick, John G.; Grace C. Anderson; Douglas I. Kushner; Nemanja Danilovic, and Adam Z. Weber.

05/2021

Anion Exchange Ionomers: Impact of Chemistry on Thin‐Film Properties

Authors: Luo, , Xiaoyan; Douglas I. Kushner; Jonathan Li; Eun Joo Park; Yu Seung Kim, and Ahmet Kusoglu.

03/2021

2020

Supported Oxygen Evolution Catalysts by Design: Toward Lower Precious Metal Loading and Improved Conductivity in Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers

Authors: Regmi, Yagya N.; Eden Tzanetopoulos; Guosong Zeng; Xiong Peng; Douglas I. Kushner; Tobias A. Kistler; Laurie A. King, and Nemanja Danilovic.

10/2020

2019

Mass-Transport Resistances of Acid and Alkaline Ionomer Layers: A Microelectrode Study Part 1 - Microelectrode Development

Authors: Petrovick, John G.; Douglas I. Kushner; Meron Tesfaye; Nemanja Danilovic; Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber.

03/2019

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