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)

2017

Stanislavchuk, T N, D S Middlemiss, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, Y Janssen, R Basistyy, A A Sirenko, Peter G Khalifah, Clare P Grey, and Robert Kostecki."Infrared-active optical phonons in LiFePO₄ single crystals."Journal of Applied Physics 122.4 (2017) 045107. DOI

Ma, Chuze, Judith Alvarado, Jing Xu, Raphaële J Clément, Moses Kodur, Wei Tong, Clare P Grey, and Ying Shirley Meng."Exploring Oxygen Activity in the High Energy P2-Type Na _0.78Ni _0.23Mn _0.69O ₂Cathode Material for Na-Ion Batteries."Journal of the American Chemical Society 139.13 (2017) 4835 - 4845. DOI

2016

Dunstan, Matthew T, Anubhav Jain, Wen Liu, Shyue Ping Ong, Tao Liu, Jeongjae Lee, Kristin A Persson, Stuart A Scott, John S Dennis, and Clare P Grey."Large scale computational screening and experimental discovery of novel materials for high temperature CO ₂ capture."Energy & Environmental Science 9.4 (2016) 1346 - 1360. DOI

2015

Lucas, Ivan T, A S McLeod, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, D S Middlemiss, Clare P Grey, D N Basov, and Robert Kostecki."IR Near-Field Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Li_xFePO₄ Microcrystals."Nano Letters 15.1 (2015) 1 - 7. DOI

2014

Duncan, Hugues, Bin Hai, Michal Leskes, Clare P Grey, and Guoying Chen."Relationships between Mn³⁺ Content, Structural Ordering, Phase Transformation and Kinetic Properties in LiNi_xMn_2-xO₄ Cathode Materials."Chemistry of Materials (2014). DOI

2013

Cabana, Jordi, Natasha A Chernova, Jie Xiao, Megan Roppolo, Kellie A Aldi, M. M Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P Grey."Study of the Transition Metal Ordering in Layered Na_xNi_x/2Mn_1–x/2O₂ (2/3≤x≤1) and Consequences of Na/Li Exchange."Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013) 8540-8550. DOI

2012

Cabana, Jordi, Montserrat Casas-Cabanas, Fredrick O Omenya, Natasha A Chernova, Dongli Zeng, M. M Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P Grey."Composition-structure relationships in the Li-ion battery electrode material LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 2952-2964. DOI

Aldi, Kellie A, Jordi Cabana, Paul J Sideris, and Clare P Grey."Investigation of cation ordering in triclinic sodium birnessite via ²³Na MAS NMR spectroscopy."American Mineralogist 97 (2012) 883-889. DOI

Upreti, Shailesh, Natasha A Chernova, Jie Xiao, Joel K Miller, Olga V Yakubovich, Jordi Cabana, Clare P Grey, Vincent L Chevrier, Gerbrand Ceder, Janice L Musfeldt, and M. M Stanley Whittingham."Crystal structure, physical properties, and electrochemistry of copper substituted LiFePO₄ single crystals."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 166-173. DOI

2011

Cabana, Jordi, Junichi Shirakawa, Masanobu Nakayama, Masataka Wakihara, and Clare P Grey."Effect of ball-milling and lithium insertion on the lithium mobility and structure of Li3Fe2 (PO4)3."Journal of Material Chemistry 21.27 (2011) 10012-10020. DOI

2010

Cabana, Jordi, and Clare P Grey."Lithium Ion Batteries for Transportation and Electrical Energy Storage Applications: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Structure and Function."Energy Production and Storage: Inorganic Chemical Strategies for a Warming World (2010) 375-391.

Cabana, Jordi, Christopher S Johnson, Xiao-Qing Yang, Kyung-Yoon Chung, Won-Sub Yoon, Sun-Ho Kang, Michael M Thackeray, and Clare P Grey."Structural complexity of layered-spinel composite electrodes for Li-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Research 25.8 (2010) 1601-1616.

Cabana, Jordi, Costana M Ionica-Bousquet, Clare P Grey, and M. M Rosa Palacín."High rate performance of lithium manganese nitride and oxynitride as negative electrodes in lithium batteries."Electrochemistry Communications 12 (2010) 315-318. DOI

Zeng, Dongli, Jordi Cabana, Won-Sub Yoon, and Clare P Grey."Investigation of the Structural Changes in Li[Ni_yMn_yCo_{(1- 2y)}]O₂ (y=0.05) upon Electrochemical Lithium Deintercalation."Chemistry of Materials 22 (2010) 1209-1219. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Junichi Shirakawa, Guoying Chen, Thomas J Richardson, and Clare P Grey."MAS NMR Study of the Metastable Solid Solution Found in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Chemistry of Materials 22.3 (2010) 1249-1262. DOI