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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.
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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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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

Besli, Münir M, Camille Usubelli, Michael Metzger, Vikram Pande, Katherine Harry, Dennis Nordlund, Sami Sainio, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, and Saravanan Kuppan."Effect of Liquid Electrolyte Soaking on the Interfacial Resistance of Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ for All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.18 (2020) 20605 - 20612. DOI

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

2019

Alvarado, Judith, Chenxi Wei, Dennis Nordlund, Thomas Kroll, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yangchao Tian, Yijin Liu, and Marca M Doeff."Thermal stress-induced charge and structure heterogeneity in emerging cathode materials."Materials Today (2019). DOI

Pan, Taijun, Judith Alvarado, Jian Zhu, Yuan Yue, Huolin L Xin, Dennis Nordlund, Feng Lin, and Marca M Doeff."Structural Degradation of Layered Cathode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries Induced by Ball Milling."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.10 (2019) A1964 - A1971. DOI

Besli, Münir M, Alpesh K Shukla, Chenxi Wei, Michael Metzger, Judith Alvarado, Julian Boell, Dennis Nordlund, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Christina Johnston, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Saravanan Kuppan."Thermally-driven mesopore formation and oxygen release in delithiated NCA cathode particles."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.20 (2019) 12593 - 12603. DOI

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Evgeny Gorelov, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Electronic structure changes upon lithium intercalation into graphite – Insights from ex situ and operando x-ray Raman spectroscopy."Carbon 143 (2019) 371 - 377. DOI

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Evgeny Gorelov, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Electronic structure changes upon lithium intercalation into graphite – Insights from ex situ and operando x-ray Raman spectroscopy."Carbon 143 (2019) 371 - 377. DOI

Besli, Münir M, Camille Usubelli, Michael Metzger, Sondra Hellstrom, Sami Sainio, Dennis Nordlund, Jake Christensen, Gerhard Schneider, Marca M Doeff, and Saravanan Kuppan."Long-term chemothermal stability of delithiated NCA in polymer solid-state batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.47 (2019) 27135 - 27147. DOI

2018

Wei, Chenxi, Yan Zhang, Sang-Jun Lee, Linqin Mu, Jin Liu, Chenxu Wang, Yang Yang, Marca M Doeff, Piero Pianetta, Dennis Nordlund, Xi-Wen Du, Yangchao Tian, Kejie Zhao, Jun-Sik Lee, Feng Lin, and Yijin Liu."Thermally driven mesoscale chemomechanical interplay in Li _0.5 Ni _0.6Mn _0.2Co _0.2O ₂ cathode materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6.45 (2018) 23055 - 23061. DOI

Mu, Linqin, Ruoqian Lin, Rong Xu, Lili Han, Sihao Xia, Dimosthenis Sokaras, James D Steiner, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, Kejie Zhao, Huolin L Xin, and Feng Lin."Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials."Nano Letters 18.5 (2018) 3241 - 3249. 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

Xu, Jing, Meiling Sun, Ruimin Qiao, Sara E Renfrew, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Sooyeon Hwang, Dennis Nordlund, Dong Su, Khalil Amine, Jun Lu, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Elucidating anionic oxygen activity in lithium-rich layered oxides."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

2017

Yi, Tanghong, Wei Chen, Lei Cheng, Ryan D Bayliss, Feng Lin, Michael R Plews, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Kristin A Persson, and Jordi Cabana."Investigating the Intercalation Chemistry of Alkali Ions in Fluoride Perovskites."Chemistry of Materials 29.4 (2017) 1561 - 1568. DOI

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

Ludwig, Jennifer, Stephan Geprägs, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, and Tom Nilges."Co ₁₁ Li[(OH) ₅O][(PO ₃OH)(PO ₄) ₅], a Lithium-Stabilized, Mixed-Valent Cobalt(II,III) Hydroxide Phosphate Framework."Inorganic Chemistry 56.18 (2017) 10950 - 10961. DOI

Kuppan, Saravanan, Alpesh Khushalcha Shukla, Daniel Membreno, Dennis Nordlund, and Guoying Chen."Revealing Anisotropic Spinel Formation on Pristine Li- and Mn-Rich Layered Oxide Surface and Its Impact on Cathode Performance."Advanced Energy Materials 7.11 (2017) 1602010. DOI

Ludwig, Jennifer, Carlos Alarcón-Suesca, Stephan Geprägs, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Inés Puente Orench, and Tom Nilges."Direct synthesis and characterization of mixed-valent Li _0.5−δCoPO ₄, a Li-deficient derivative of the Cmcm polymorph of LiCoPO ₄."RSC Advances 7.45 (2017) 28069 - 28081. DOI

Ludwig, Jennifer, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, and Tom Nilges."Synthesis and characterization of metastable, 20 nm-sized Pna 2 1 -LiCoPO 4 nanospheres."Journal of Solid State Chemistry 248 (2017) 9 - 17. DOI

Ma, Yulin, Yan Zhou, Chunyu Du, Pengjian Zuo, Xinqun Cheng, Lili Han, Dennis Nordlund, Yunzhi Gao, Geping Yin, Huolin L Xin, Marca M Doeff, Feng Lin, and Guoying Chen."A New Anion Receptor for Improving the Interface between Lithium- and Manganese-Rich Layered Oxide Cathode and the Electrolyte."Chemistry of Materials 29.5 (2017) 2141 - 2149. DOI

Fang, Xin, Feng Lin, Dennis Nordlund, Matthew Mecklenburg, Mingyuan Ge, Jiepeng Rong, Anyi Zhang, Chenfei Shen, Yihang Liu, Yu Cao, Marca M Doeff, and Chongwu Zhou."Atomic Insights into the Enhanced Surface Stability in High Voltage Cathode Materials by Ultrathin Coating."Advanced Functional Materials 27.7 (2017) 1602873. 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

2015

He, K, Huolin L Xin, K Zhao, X Yu, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, J Li, Y Jiang, C A Cadigan, R M Richards, Marca M Doeff, Xiao-Qing Yang, E A Stach, J Li, Feng Lin, and D Su."Transitions from Near-Surface to Interior Redox upon Lithiation in Conversion Electrode Materials."Nano Lett 15 (2015) 1437-44. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Zahid Hussain, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Revealing and suppressing surface Mn(II) formation of Na_0.44MnO₂ electrodes for Na-ion batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 186 - 195. DOI