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)

2001

Braun, Artur, Soenke Seifert, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Stephen P. Cramer, and Elton J. Cairns."In situ anomalous small angle X-ray scattering and absorption on an operating rechargeable lithium ion battery cell."Electrochemistry Communications 3.3 (2001) 136-141. DOI

Rush, Benjamin M., Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns."Nuclear magnetic resonance and voltammetry studies of carbon monoxide adsorption and oxidation on a carbon-supported platinum fuel cell electrocatalyst."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A137-A148. DOI

2000

Horne, Craig R., Uwe Bergmann, Melissa M. Grush, Rupert C.C. Perera, David L. Ederer, Thomas A. Callcott, Elton J. Cairns, and Stephen P. Cramer."Electronic Structure of Chemically-Prepared Li_xMn₂O₄ Determined by Mn X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopies."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104 (2000) 9587-9596. DOI

Marmorstein, D., Ted H. Yu, Kathryn A. Striebel, Frank R. McLarnon, Jun Hou, and Elton J. Cairns."Electrochemical performance of lithium/sulfur cells with three different polymer electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 89.2 (2000) 219-226. DOI

Marmorstein, Diana, Ted H. Yu, Kathryn A. Striebel, Frank R. McLarnon, Jun Hou, and Elton J. Cairns."Electrochemical performance of lithium/sulfur cells with three different polymer electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 89.2 (2000) 219-226. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns."A ⁷Li NMR study of lithium insertion into lithium manganese oxide spinel."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 3 (2000) 463-466. DOI

Grush, Melissa M., Craig R. Horne, Rupert C.C. Perera, David L. Ederer, Stephen P. Cramer, Elton J. Cairns, and Thomas A. Callcott."Correlating Electronic Structure with Cycling Performance of Substituted LiMn₂O₄ Electrode Materials: A Study Using the Techniques of Soft X-ray Absorption and Emission."Chemistry of Materials 12.3 (2000) 659-664. DOI

Bidoia, Ederio D., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Investigation of anion adsorption on platinum electrodes in aqueous media by probe beam deflection."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 482.1 (2000) 75-80. DOI

Horne, Craig R., Uwe Bergmann, Jaekook Kim, Kathryn A. Striebel, Arumugam Manthiram, Stephen P. Cramer, and Elton J. Cairns."Structural Investigations of Li_1.5+xNa_0.5MnO_2.85I_0.12 Electrodes by Mn X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 147 (2000) 395-398. DOI

1999

Haas, Otto, and Elton J. Cairns."Electrochemical energy storage."Annual Reports Section "C" (Physical Chemistry) 95 (1999) 163-198. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A., Aline Rougier, Craig R. Horne, Ronald P. Reade, and Elton J. Cairns."Electrochemical Studies of Substituted Spinel Thin Films."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 146.12 (1999) 4339-4347. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A., Aline Rougier, Craig R. Horne, Ronald P. Reade, and Elton J. Cairns."Electrochemical Studies of Substituted Spinel Thin Films."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 146.12 (1999) 4339-4347. DOI

1998

Gee, , Becky, Craig R. Horne, Elton J. Cairns, and Jeffrey A. Reimer."Supertransferred Hyperfine Fields at ⁷Li: Variable Temperature ⁷Li NMR Studies of LiMn₂O₄-Based Spinels."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102 (1998) 10142-10149. DOI

Rougier, Aline, Kathryn A. Striebel, Shi-Jie Wen, Thomas J. Richardson, Ronald P. Reade, and Elton J. Cairns."Characterization of pulsed laser-deposited LiMn₂O₄ thin films for rechargeable lithium batteries."Applied Surface Science 134.1-4 (1998) 107-115. DOI

Adler, Thomas C., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Investigations of a New Family of Alkaline−Fluoride−Carbonate Electrolytes for Zinc/Nickel Oxide Cells."Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 37.8 (1998) 3237-3241. DOI

Perry, Michael L., John S. Newman, and Elton J. Cairns."Mass Transport in Gas-Diffusion Electrodes: A Diagnostic Tool for Fuel-Cell Cathodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 145 (1998) 5-15. DOI

Rougier, Aline, Kathryn A. Striebel, Shi-Jie Wen, and Elton J. Cairns."Cyclic Voltammetry of Pulsed Laser Deposited Li_xMn₂O₄ Thin Films."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 145.9 (1998) 2975-2980. DOI

1997

Richardson, Thomas J., Shi-Jie Wen, Kathryn A. Striebel, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."FTIR spectroscopy of metal oxide insertion materials: Analysis of LixMn2O4 spinel electrodes."Materials Research Bulletin 32.5 (1997) 609-618. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A., Shi-Jie Wen, Dania I. Ghantous, and Elton J. Cairns."Novel Nanodisperse Composite Cathode for Rechargeable Lithium/Polymer Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 144.5 (1997) 1680-1685. DOI

Lee, Churl Kyoung, Kathryn A. Striebel, Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Thermal Treatment of La_0.6Ca_0.4CoO₃ Perovskites for Bifunctional Air Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 144.11 (1997) 3801-3806. DOI

Cairns, Elton J., Craig R. Horne, B.J.R. Weiss, Melissa M. Grush, Stephen P. Cramer, O. Savadogo, and Pierre R. Roberge."X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Investigations of Li_xMn₂O₄."New Materials for Fuel Cell and Modern Battery Systems II (1997).

1996

Yahnke, , Mark S., Benjamin M. Rush, Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns."Quantitative solid-state NMR spectra of CO adsorbed from aqueous solution onto a commercial electrode."Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (1996) 12250-12251. DOI

Wen, Shi-Jie, Thomas J. Richardson, Dania I. Ghantous, Kathryn A. Striebel, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."FTIR characterization of PEO + LiN(CF₃SO₂)₂ electrolytes."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 408.1-2 (1996) 113-118. DOI

Deng, Zhongyi, Jonathan D. Spear, James D. Rudnicki, Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Infrared photothermal deflection spectroscopy: A new probe for the investigation of electrochemical interfaces."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143.5 (1996) 1514-1521. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Sodium/Phosphorus-Sulfur Cells I. Cell Performance."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143 (1996) 406-412. DOI