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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Berlinger, Sarah A., Anamika Chowdhury, Tim Van Cleve, Aaron He, Nicholas Dagan, Kenneth C. Neyerlin, Bryan D. McCloskey, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Impact of Platinum Primary Particle Loading on Fuel Cell Performance: Insights from Catalyst/Ionomer Ink Interactions."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.32 (2022) 36731 - 36740. DOI

2021

Chowdhury, , Anamika, Ashley Bird, Jiangjin Liu, Iryna V. Zenyuk, Ahmet Kusoglu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Linking Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomer Chemistry and High-Current Density Performance in Fuel-Cell Electrodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13.36 (2021) 42579 - 42589. DOI

2020

Katzenberg, , Adlai, Anamika Chowdhury, Minfeng Fang, Adam Z. Weber, Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Miguel A. Modestino."Highly Permeable Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid Ionomers for Improved Electrochemical Devices: Insights into Structure–Property Relationships."Journal of the American Chemical Society 142.8 (2020) 3742 - 3752. 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

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

Conde, , Julio J., M. Antonia Folgado, P. Ferreira-Aparicio, Antonio M. Chaparro, Anamika Chowdhury, Ahmet Kusoglu, David Cullen, and Adam Z. Weber."Mass-transport properties of electrosprayed Pt/C catalyst layers for polymer-electrolyte fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 427 (2019) 250 - 259. DOI

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