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)

2013

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z Weber."Role of Chemical-Mechanical Energies in Understanding Structure and Properties of Aged and Degraded Membranes."ECS Transactions 50.2 (2013) 961 - 965. DOI

Modestino, Miguel A, Devproshad K Paul, Shudipto Dishari, Stephanie A Petrina, Frances I Allen, Michael A Hickner, Kunal Karan, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z Weber."Self-Assembly and Transport Limitations in Confined Nafion Films."Macromolecules 46.3 (2013) 867 - 873. DOI

Fairweather, Joseph, Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z Weber, David Harvey, Silvia Wessel, Daniel S Hussey, David L Jacobson, Kateryna Artyushkova, Rangachary Mukundan, and Rodney L Borup."Effects of Cathode Corrosion on Through-Plane Water Transport in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) F980 - F993. DOI

2012

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Alexander Hexemer, Ruichun Jiang, Craig S Gittleman, and Adam Z Weber."Effect of compression on PFSA-ionomer morphology and predicted conductivity changes."Journal of Membrane Science 421-422 (2012) 283 - 291. DOI

Hussey, Daniel S, Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z Weber, Rangachary Mukundan, Joseph Fairweather, Eric L Brosha, John Davey, Jacob S Spendelow, David L Jacobson, and Rodney L Borup."Accurate measurement of the through-plane water content of proton-exchange membranes using neutron radiography."Journal of Applied Physics 112.10 (2012) 104906. DOI

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Paul L Ridgway, Adam Z Weber, Sophia Haussener, Vincent S Battaglia, and Venkat Srinivasan."High performance hydrogen/bromine redox flow battery for grid-scale energy storage."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.11 (2012) A1806-A1815. DOI

Haussener, Sophia, Chengxiang Xiang, Joshua M Spurgeon, Shane Ardo, Nathan S Lewis, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling, simulation, and design criteria for photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems."Energy & Environmental Science 5.12 (2012) 9922-9935. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Suchol Savagatrup, Kyle Clark, and Adam Z Weber."Role of Mechanical Factors in Controlling the Structure–Function Relationship of PFSA Ionomers."Macromolecules 45.18 (2012) 7467 - 7476. DOI

Aieta, Niccolo V, Prodip K Das, Andrew Perdue, Guido Bender, Andrew M Herring, Adam Z Weber, and Michael J Ulsh."Applying infrared thermography as a quality-control tool for the rapid detection of polymer-electrolyte-membrane-fuel-cell catalyst-layer-thickness variations."Journal of Power Sources 211 (2012) 4 - 11. DOI

Modestino, Miguel A, Ahmet Kusoglu, Alexander Hexemer, Adam Z Weber, and Rachel A Segalman."Controlling Nafion Structure and Properties via Wetting Interactions."Macromolecules 45.11 (2012) 4681 - 4688. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Adam Z Weber, Kirt A Page, Christopher L Soles, and James Runt."Water Transport and Sorption in Nafion Membrane."Polymers for Energy Storage and Delivery: Polyelectrolytes for Batteries and Fuel Cells 1096 (2012) 175 - 199. DOI

Zhu, Xiaobing, John B Kerr, Qinggang He, Gisuk Hwang, Zulima Martin, Kyle Clark, Adam Z Weber, and Nana Zhao."Bridge to Fuel Cell Molecular Catalysis: 3D Non-Platinum Group Metal Catalyst in MEAs."ECS Transactions 45.2 (2012) 143 - 152. DOI

Weber, Adam Z."Macroscopic Modeling of the Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layer."ECS Transactions 45.2 (2012) 71 - 83. DOI

Das, Prodip K, Adam Grippin, Anthony Kwong, and Adam Z Weber."Liquid-Water-Droplet Adhesion-Force Measurements on Fresh and Aged Fuel-Cell Gas-Diffusion Layers."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.5 (2012) B489. DOI

Hwang, Gisuk, and Adam Z Weber."Effective-Diffusivity Measurement of Partially-Saturated Fuel-Cell Gas-Diffusion Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.11 (2012) F683 - F692. DOI

Dursch, Thomas J, Monica A Ciontea, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Isothermal Ice Crystallization Kinetics in the Gas-Diffusion Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Langmuir 28.2 (2012) 1222 - 1234. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Miguel A Modestino, Alexander Hexemer, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z Weber."Subsecond Morphological Changes in Nafion during Water Uptake Detected by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering."ACS Macro Letters 1.1 (2012) 33 - 36. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Anthony Kwong, Kyle Clark, Haluna P Gunterman, and Adam Z Weber."Water Uptake of Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) F530 - F535. DOI

Weber, Adam Z, Sivagaminathan Balasubramanian, Prodip K Das, and Sundmacher Kai."Chapter 2 - Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."Advances in Chemical EngineeringFuel Cell EngineeringProton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 41 (2012) 65 - 144. DOI

2011

Weber, Adam Z, Matthew M Mench, Jeremy P Meyers, Philip N Ross, Jeffrey T Gostick, and Qinghua Liu."Redox Flow Batteries: a Review."J. Appl. Electrochem 41.10 (2011) 1137-1164. DOI

Gunterman, Haluna P, Anthony Kwong, Jeffrey T Gostick, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z Weber."Water Uptake in PEMFC Catalyst Layers."220th ECS Meeting 41 (2011) 647. DOI

Yoon, Wonseok, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling Low-Platinum-Loading Effects in Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158.8 (2011) B1007-1018. DOI

Hwang, Gisuk, Massoud Kaviany, Jeffrey T Gostick, Brian L Kienitz, Adam Z Weber, and Moo Hwan Kim."Role of Water States on Water Uptake and Proton Transport in Nafion using Molecular Simulations and Bimodal Network."Polymer 52.12 (2011) 2584-2593. DOI

Mukundan, Rangachary, Greg James, John Davey, Torraco Langlois, Wonseok Yoon, Adam Z Weber, and Rodney L Borup."Accelerated Testing Validation."ECS Trans. 41 (2011).

Nobuaki, Nonoyama, Okazaki Shinobu, Adam Z Weber, Ikogi Yoshihiro, and Yoshida Toshihiko."Analysis of Oxygen-Transport Diffusion Resistance in Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cells."J. Electrochem. Society 158 (2011).