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)

2021

Lee, Rung-Chuan, Joseph Franklin, Chixia Tian, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, and Robert Kostecki."The origin of impedance rise in Ni-Rich positive electrodes for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 498 (2021) 229885. DOI

2020

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Wang Hay Kan, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Hao Shen, Kai Chen, Yijin Liu, and Marca M Doeff."Distinct Surface and Bulk Thermal Behaviors of LiNi_0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂ Cathode Materials as a Function of State of Charge."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.10 (2020) 11643 - 11656. DOI

2018

Mu, Linqin, Qingxi Yuan, Chixia Tian, Chenxi Wei, Kai Zhang, Jin Liu, Piero Pianetta, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Feng Lin."Propagation topography of redox phase transformations in heterogeneous layered oxide cathode materials."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Dennis Nordlund, Feng Lin, Jin Liu, Zhihong Sun, Yijin Liu, and Marca M Doeff."Charge Heterogeneity and Surface Chemistry in Polycrystalline Cathode Materials."Joule 2.3 (2018) 464 - 477. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Dennis Nordlund, Huolin L Xin, Yahong Xu, Yijin Liu, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Feng Lin, and Marca M Doeff."Depth-Dependent Redox Behavior of LiNi _0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.3 (2018) A696 - A704. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Feng Lin, and Marca M Doeff."Electrochemical Characteristics of Layered Transition Metal Oxide Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries: Surface, Bulk Behavior, and Thermal Properties."Accounts of Chemical Research 51.1 (2018) 89 - 96. DOI

2017

Lin, Feng, Yijin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lei Cheng, Andrej Singer, Oleg G Shpyrko, Huolin L Xin, Nobumichi Tamura, Chixia Tian, Tsu-Chien Weng, Xiao-Qing Yang, Ying Shirley Meng, Dennis Nordlund, Wanli Yang, and Marca M Doeff."Synchrotron X-ray Analytical Techniques for Studying Materials Electrochemistry in Rechargeable Batteries."Chemical Reviews 117.21 (2017) 13123 - 13186. DOI

Niu, Kaiyang, You Xu, Haicheng Wang, Rong Ye, Huolin L Xin, Feng Lin, Chixia Tian, Yanwei Lum, Karen C Bustillo, Marca M Doeff, Marc T.M Koper, Joel W Ager, Rong Xu, and Haimei Zheng."A spongy nickel-organic CO ₂reduction photocatalyst for nearly 100% selective CO production."Science Advances 3.7 (2017) e1700921. DOI

Evans, Tyler, Daniela Molina Piper, Huaxing Sun, Timothy Porcelli, Seul Cham Kim, Sang Sub Han, Yong Seok Choi, Chixia Tian, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Chunmei Ban, Sung-Jin Cho, Kyu Hwan Oh, and Se-Hee Lee."In Situ Engineering of the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface for Stabilized Overlithiated Cathodes."Advanced Materials 29.10 (2017) 1604549. DOI