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)

2019

Petrovick, John G., Douglas I. Kushner, Meron Tesfaye, Nemanja Danilovic, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Mass-Transport Resistances of Acid and Alkaline Ionomer Layers: A Microelectrode Study Part 1 - Microelectrode Development."ECS Transactions 92.8 (2019) 77 - 85. DOI

2018

Guo, , Yijun, Manish K. Mishra, Futianyi Wang, Joseph Jankolovits, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z. Weber, Ant Van Dyk, Kebede Beshah, James C. Bohling, John A. Roper III, Clayton J. Radke, and Alexander Katz."Hydrophobic Inorganic Oxide Pigments via Polymethylhydrosiloxane Grafting: Dispersion in Aqueous Solution at Extraordinarily High Solids Concentrations."Langmuir (2018). DOI

2017

Crothers, Andrew R., Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Nano- and Mesoscale Ion and Water Transport in Perfluorosulfonic-Acid Membranes."ECS Transactions 80.8 (2017) 593 - 604. DOI

Crothers, Andrew R., Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Impact of Nano- and Mesoscales on Macroscopic Cation Conductivity in Perfluorinated-Sulfonic-Acid Membranes."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121.51 (2017) 28262 - 28274. DOI

2016

Jankolovits, , Joseph, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z. Weber, Antony Van Dyk, James C. Bohling, John A. Roper, Clayton J. Radke, and Alexander Katz."Stable Aqueous Dispersions of Hydrophobically Modified Titanium Dioxide Pigments through Polyanion Adsorption: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application in Coatings."Langmuir 32.8 (2016) 1929 - 1938. DOI

2014

Dursch, Thomas J., Gregory J Trigub, Roger Lujan, J. F. Liu, Rangachary Mukundan, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Ice-Crystallization Kinetics in the Catalyst Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.3 (2014) F199 - F207. DOI

2013

Dursch, Thomas J., Gregory J Trigub, J. F. Liu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Non-isothermal melting of ice in the gas-diffusion layer of a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 67 (2013) 896-901. DOI

Dursch, Thomas J., Monica A. Ciontea, Gregory J Trigub, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Pseudo-isothermal ice-crystallization kinetics in the gas-diffusion layer of a fuel cell from differential scanning calorimetry."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 60 (2013) 450 - 458. DOI

2012

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

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