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)

2023

Demarteau, Jérémy, Benjamin Cousineau, Zilong Wang, Baishakhi Bose, Seokjung Cheong, Guangxu Lan, Nawa Raj Baral, Simon J Teat, Corinne D Scown, Jay D Keasling, and Brett A Helms."Biorenewable and circular polydiketoenamine plastics."Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI

2022

Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R Epstein, Peter R Christensen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai Wang, Simon J Teat, Trevor J Seguin, Christopher W Chan, Corinne D Scown, Thomas P Russell, Jay D Keasling, Kristin A Persson, and Brett A Helms."Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling enabled by variable rates of polydiketoenamine hydrolysis."Science Advances 8.29 (2022). DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Nemi Vora, Jay D Keasling, Brett A Helms, and Corinne D Scown."Lower-Cost, Lower-Carbon Production of Circular Polydiketoenamine Plastics."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.8 (2022) 2740 - 2749. DOI

2021

Vora, Nemi, Peter R Christensen, Jérémy Demarteau, Nawa Raj Baral, Jay D Keasling, Brett A Helms, and Corinne D Scown."Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer."Science Advances 7.15 (2021) eabf0187. DOI

2020

He, Changfei, Peter R Christensen, Trevor J Seguin, Eric A Dailing, Brandon M Wood, Rebecca K Walde, Kristin A Persson, Thomas P Russell, and Brett A Helms."Conformational Entropy as a Means to Control the Behavior of Poly(diketoenamine) Vitrimers In and Out of Equilibrium."Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59.2 (2020) 735 - 739. DOI

2017

Ward, Ashleigh L, Sean E Doris, Longjun Li, Mark A Hughes, Xiaohui Qu, Kristin A Persson, and Brett A Helms."Materials Genomics Screens for Adaptive Ion Transport Behavior by Redox-Switchable Microporous Polymer Membranes in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."ACS Central Science 3.5 (2017) 399 - 406. DOI

2016

Gerber, Laura C. H, Peter D Frischmann, Frank Y Fan, Sean E Doris, Xiaohui Qu, Angelique M Scheuermann, Kristin A Persson, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Brett A Helms."Three-Dimensional Growth of Li ₂ S in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Promoted by a Redox Mediator."Nano Letters 16.1 (2016) 549 - 554. DOI

2015

Frischmann, Peter D, Laura C. H Gerber, Sean E Doris, Erica Y Tsai, Frank Y Fan, Xiaohui Qu, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A Persson, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Brett A Helms."Supramolecular Perylene Bisimide-Polysulfide Gel Networks as Nanostructured Redox Mediators in Dissolved Polysulfide Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 27.19 (2015) 6765 - 6770. DOI

2014

Kaur, Sumanjeet, Nachiket Raravikar, Brett A Helms, Ravi S Prasher, and D. D Frank Ogletree."Enhanced thermal transport at covalently functionalized carbon nanotube array interfaces."Nature Communications 5 (2014) 3082. DOI

2013

Shehabi, Arman, Nicholas DeForest, Andrew McNeil, Eric R Masanet, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Georgeta Masson, Brett A Helms, and Delia J Milliron."U.S. energy savings potential from dynamic daylighting control glazings."Energy and Buildings 66 (2013) 415-423. DOI