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

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)

2020

Regmi, Yagya N, Xiong Peng, Julie C Fornaciari, Max Wei, Deborah J Myers, Adam Z Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."A low temperature unitized regenerative fuel cell realizing 60% round trip efficiency and 10 000 cycles of durability for energy storage applications."Energy & Environmental Science (2020). DOI

Soniat, Marielle, Meron Tesfaye, Amirhossein Mafi, Daniel J Brooks, Nicholas D Humphrey, Lien‐Chun Weng, Boris Merinov, William A Goddard, Adam Z Weber, and Frances A Houle."Permeation of CO₂ and N₂ through glassy poly(dimethyl phenylene) oxide under steady‐ and presteady‐state conditions."Journal of Polymer Science 58.9 (2020) 1207 - 1228. DOI

Kushner, Douglas I, Andrew R Crothers, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z Weber."Transport phenomena in flow battery ion-conducting membranes."Current Opinion in Electrochemistry (2020). DOI

Mahrous, Elaf, Alex Jarauta, Thomas Chan, Pavel Ryzhakov, Adam Z Weber, R. R Valéry Roy, and Marc Secanell."A particle finite element-based model for droplet spreading analysis."Physics of Fluids 32.4 (2020) 042106. DOI

Leonard, Emily, Andrew D Shum, Nemanja Danilovic, Christopher Capuano, Katherine E Ayers, Lalit M Pant, Adam Z Weber, Xianghui Xiao, Dilworth Y Parkinson, and Iryna V Zenyuk."Interfacial analysis of a PEM electrolyzer using X-ray computed tomography."Sustainable Energy & Fuels (2020). DOI

Bechtel, Simon, Tanja Vidaković-Koch, Adam Z Weber, and Kai Sundmacher."Model-Based Analysis of the Limiting Mechanisms in the Gas-Phase Oxidation of HCl Employing an Oxygen Depolarized Cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.1 (2020) 013537. DOI

Crothers, Andrew R, Robert M Darling, Ahmet Kusoglu, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Theory of Multicomponent Phenomena in Cation-Exchange Membranes: Part I. Thermodynamic Model and Validation."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.1 (2020) 013547. DOI

Crothers, Andrew R, Robert M Darling, Ahmet Kusoglu, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Theory of Multicomponent Phenomena in Cation-Exchange Membranes: Part II. Transport Model and Validation."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.1 (2020) 013548. DOI

Crothers, Andrew R, Robert M Darling, Douglas I Kushner, Mike L Perry, and Adam Z Weber."Theory of Multicomponent Phenomena in Cation-Exchange Membranes: Part III. Transport in Vanadium Redox-Flow-Battery Separators."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.1 (2020) 013549. DOI

2019

Schuler, Tobias, Anamika Chowdhury, Anna T Freiberg, Brian Sneed, Franz B Spingler, Michael C Tucker, Karren L More, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Fuel-Cell Catalyst-Layer Resistance via Hydrogen Limiting-Current Measurements."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.7 (2019) F3020 - F3031. DOI

Van Cleve, Tim, Sunilkumar Khandavalli, Anamika Chowdhury, Samantha Medina, Svitlana Pylypenko, Min Wang, Karren L More, Nancy Kariuki, Deborah J Myers, Adam Z Weber, Scott A Mauger, Michael Ulsh, and K C Neyerlin."Dictating Pt-Based Electrocatalyst Performance in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, from Formulation to Application."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11.50 (2019) 46953 - 46964. DOI

Mu, Yu-Tong, Adam Z Weber, Zhao-Lin Gu, and Wen-Quan Tao."Mesoscopic modeling of transport resistances in a polymer-electrolyte fuel-cell catalyst layer: Analysis of hydrogen limiting currents."Applied Energy 255 (2019) 113895. DOI

Weng, Lien-Chun, Alexis T Bell, and Adam Z Weber."Towards membrane-electrode assembly systems for CO₂ reduction: a modeling study."Energy & Environmental Science 12.6 (2019) 1950 - 1968. DOI

Bechtel, Simon, Antonio Sorrentino, Tanja Vidaković-Koch, Adam Z Weber, and Kai Sundmacher."Electrochemical gas phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine: Model-based analysis of transport and reaction mechanisms."Electrochimica Acta 324 (2019) 134780. DOI

Higgins, Drew, Christopher Hahn, Chengxiang Xiang, Thomas F Jaramillo, and Adam Z Weber."Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm."ACS Energy Letters 4.1 (2019) 317 - 324. DOI

Kistler, Tobias A, David Larson, Karl Walczak, Peter Agbo, Ian D Sharp, Adam Z Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Integrated Membrane-Electrode-Assembly Photoelectrochemical Cell under Various Feed Conditions for Solar Water Splitting."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.5 (2019) H3020 - H3028. DOI

Chowdhury, Anamika, Robert M Darling, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling Water Uptake and Pt Utilization in High Surface Area Carbon."ECS Transactions 92.8 (2019) 247 - 259. DOI

Lian, Hao-Yu, Jing-Lin Liu, Xiao-Song Li, Xiaobing Zhu, Adam Z Weber, and Ai-Min Zhu."Plasma chain catalytic reforming of methanol for on-board hydrogen production."Chemical Engineering Journal 369 (2019) 245 - 252. DOI

Chintam, Kavitha, Michael R Gerhardt, Andrew M Baker, Derek Richard, Mahlon S Wilson, James Raymond Flesner, Tommy Rockward, Daniel S Hussey, Jacob M LaManna, David L Jacobson, Jon Rau, Adam Z Weber, and Rodney L Borup."Imaging and Modeling of Passive Water Management in a Miniature Fuel Cell."ECS Transactions 92.8 (2019) 395 - 409. DOI

Stanislaw, Lauren N, Michael R Gerhardt, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling Electrolyte Composition Effects on Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolyzer Performance."ECS Transactions 92.8 (2019) 767 - 779. DOI

Ehlinger, Victoria M, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling Coupled Durability and Performance in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Membrane Effects."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.7 (2019) F3255 - F3267. DOI

Petrovick, John G, Douglas I Kushner, Meron Tesfaye, Nemanja Danilovic, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Mass-Transport Resistances of Acid and Alkaline Ionomer Layers: A Microelectrode Study Part 1 - Microelectrode Development."ECS Transactions 92.8 (2019) 77 - 85. DOI

Ulsh, Michael, Annalisa DeBari, Jacob M Berliner, Iryna V Zenyuk, Peter Rupnowski, Larissa Matvichuk, Adam Z Weber, and Guido Bender."The development of a through-plane reactive excitation technique for detection of pinholes in membrane-containing MEA sub-assemblies."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44.16 (2019) 8533 - 8547. DOI

García-Salaberri, Pablo A, Iryna V Zenyuk, Gisuk Hwang, Marcos Vera, Adam Z Weber, and Jeff T Gostick."Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study."Electrochimica Acta 295 (2019) 861 - 874. DOI

Gerhardt, Michael R, Lalit M Pant, and Adam Z Weber."Along-the-Channel Impacts of Water Management and Carbon-Dioxide Contamination in Hydroxide-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cells: A Modeling Study."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.7 (2019) F3180 - F3192. DOI