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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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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)

2015

Zhao, Hui, Zhe Jia, Wen Yuan, Heyi Hu, Yanbao Fu, Gregory L Baker, and Gao Liu."Fumed Silica-Based Single-Ion Nanocomposite Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.34 (2015) 19335 - 19341. DOI

Ling, Min, Hui Zhao, Xingcheng Xiao, Feifei Shi, Mingyan Wu, Jingxia Qiu, Sheng Li, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, and Shanqing Zhang."Low cost and environmentally benign crack-blocking structures for long life and high power Si electrodes in lithium ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3 (2015) 2036-2042. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Fadi Asfour, Yanbao Fu, Zhe Jia, Wen Yuan, Ying Bai, Min Ling, Heyi Hu, Gregory L Baker, and Gao Liu."Plasticized Polymer Composite Single-Ion Conductors for Lithium Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.34 (2015) 19494 - 19499. DOI

Yuan, Wen, Mingyan Wu, Hui Zhao, Xiangyun Song, and Gao Liu."Baseline Si electrode fabrication and performance for the battery for Advanced Transportation Technologies Program."Journal of Power Sources 282 (2015) 223 - 227. DOI

Bai, Ying, Yang Tang, Zhihui Wang, Zhe Jia, Feng Wu, Chuan Wu, and Gao Liu."Electrochemical performance of Si/CeO₂/Polyaniline composites as anode materials for lithium ion batteries."Solid State Ionics 272 (2015) 24 - 29. DOI

Wu, Mingyan, Xiangyun Song, Xiaosong Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Manipulating the polarity of conductive polymer binders for Si-based anodes in lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3.7 (2015) 3651 - 3658. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Na_0.44MnO₂ with very fast sodium diffusion and stable cycling synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone-combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 285 (2015) 161 - 168. DOI

Xiao, Xingcheng, Weidong Zhou, Youngnam Kim, Ill Ryu, Meng Gu, Chongmin Wang, Gao Liu, Zhongyi Liu, and Huajian Gao."Regulated Breathing Effect of Silicon Negative Electrode for Dramatically Enhanced Performance of Li-Ion Battery."Advanced Functional Materials 25.9 (2015) 1426 - 1433. 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

Dai, Kehua, Zhihui Wang, Guo Ai, Hui Zhao, Wen Yuan, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Chengdong Sun, Kai Wu, and Gao Liu."The transformation of graphite electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries after cycling."Journal of Power Sources 298 (2015) 349 - 354. DOI

Yan, Xiaodong, ZhihuiWang ZhihuiWang, Min He, Zhaohui Hou, Ting Xia, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."TiO₂ Nanomaterials as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries."Energy Technology 3.8 (2015) 801 - 814. DOI

Bai, Ying, Xingzhen Zhou, Zhe Jia, Chuan Wu, Liwei Yang, Mizi Chen, Hui Zhao, Feng Wu, and Gao Liu."Understanding the combined effects of microcrystal growth and band gap reduction for Fe_(1−x)Ti_xF₃ nanocomposites as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nano Energy 17 (2015) 140 - 151. DOI

2014

Deng, Yonghong, Wen Yuan, Zhe Jia, and Gao Liu."H-and J-aggregation of Fluorene-based Chromophores."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118 (2014) 14536-14545. DOI

Feng, Caihong, Le Zhang, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Kening Sun, Feng Wu, and Gao Liu."Synthesis of copper sulfide nanowire bundles in a mixed solvent as a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 269 (2014) 550-555. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Zhihui Wang, Peng Lu, Meng Jiang, Feifei Shi, Xiangyun Song, Ziyang Zheng, Xin Zhou, Yanbao Fu, Guerfi Abdelbast, Xingcheng Xiao, Zhi Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, Karim Zaghib, and Gao Liu."Toward practical application of functional conductive polymer binder for a high-energy lithium-ion battery design."Nano Letters 14 (2014) 6704–6710. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Xin Zhou, Sang-Jae Park, Feifei Shi, Yanbao Fu, Min Ling, Neslihan Yuca, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."A polymerized vinylene carbonate anode binder enhances performance of lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 263 (2014) 288-295. DOI

Yuca, Neslihan, Hui Zhao, Xiangyun Song, Murat F Dogdu, Wen Yuan, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Xingcheng Xiao, and Gao Liu."A Systematic Investigation of Polymer Binder Flexibility on the Electrode Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (2014) 17111-17118. DOI

Zheng, Ziyan, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Shidi Xun, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Biomimetic Nanostructuring of Copper Thin Films Enhances Adhesion to the Negative Electrode Laminate in Lithium-Ion Batteries."ChemSusChem 7 (2014) 2853-2858. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Hui Zhao, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Toward high specific capacity and high cycling stability of pure tin nanoparticles with conductive polymer binder for sodium ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 263 (2014) 276-279. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yanbao Fu, Zhengcheng Zhang, Shengwen Yuan, Khalil Amine, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Application of Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP®) in graphite anode – A high efficient prelithiation method for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 260 (2014) 57 - 61. DOI

Shi, Feifei, Hui Zhao, Gao Liu, Philip N Ross, Gabor A Somorjai, and Kyriakos Komvopoulos."Identification of Diethyl 2,5-Dioxahexane Dicarboxylate and Polyethylene Carbonate as Decomposition Products of Ethylene Carbonate Based Electrolytes by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (2014) 14732-14738. DOI

Xia, Ting, Wei Zhang, Zhihui Wang, Yuliang Zhang, Xiangyun Song, James Murowchick, Vincent S Battaglia, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Amorphous carbon-coated TiO₂ nanocrystals for improved lithium-ion battery and photocatalytic performance."Nano Energy 6 (2014) 109-118. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yulin Chen, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Improving the performance of lithium–sulfur batteries using conductive polymer and micrometric sulfur powder."Journal of Materials Research 29.09 (2014) 1027-1033. DOI

Vaughey, Jack T, Gao Liu, and Ji-Guang Zhang."Stabilizing the surface of lithium metal."MRS Bulletin 39.05 (2014) 429 - 435. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yuliang Zhang, Ting Xia, James Murowchick, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Lithium-Ion Battery Performance of (001)-Faceted TiO₂ Nanosheets vs. Spherical TiO₂ Nanoparticles."Energy Technology 2.4 (2014) 376-382. DOI