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)

2007

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, Vincent S Battaglia, Amanda S Simens, Andrew M Minor, and Xiangyun Song."Optimization of Acetylene Black Conductive Additive and Polyvinylidene Difluoride Composition for High Power Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Cells."ECS Transactions 6.14 (2007) 45-56. DOI

2006

Liu, Gao, Melanie T Reinhout, Brian Mainguy, and Gregory L Baker."Synthesis, structure, and ionic conductivity of self-assembled amphiphilic poly(methacrylate) comb polymers."Macromolecules 39 (2006) 4726-4734.

2005

Brena, B, Guorong V Zhuang, A Augustsson, Gao Liu, J Nordgren, Jinghua Guo, Philip N Ross, and Y Luo."Conformation dependence of electronic structures of poly(ethylene oxide)."Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (2005) 7907-7914. DOI

Liu, Gao, and Thomas J Richardson."Sb-Cu-Li electrochromic mirrors."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 86 (2005) 113-121. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Guorong V Zhuang, Thomas J Richardson, Gao Liu, and Philip N Ross."Anodic polymerization of vinyl ethylene carbonate in Li-ion battery electrolyte."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 8.7 (2005) A344-A347. DOI

2004

Federspiel, Clifford C, William J Fisk, Phillip N Price, Gao Liu, David Faulkner, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Douglas P Sullivan, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker Performance and Ventilation in a Call Center: Analyses of Work Performance Data for Registered Nurses."Indoor Air 14.Supplement s8 (2004) 41-50. DOI

Liu, Gao, Craig L Reeder, Xiao-Guang Sun, and John B Kerr."Diffusion coefficients in trimethyleneoxide containing comb branch polymer electrolytes."Solid State Ionics 175.1-4 (2004) 781-783. DOI

Liu, Gao, Melanie T Reinhout, and Gregory L Baker."Nanoscale lithium ion conducting polyethylene oxide with self-attached insulating layers."Solid State Ionics 175 (2004) 721-724.

Sun, Xiao-Guang, Gao Liu, Jiangbing Xie, Yongbong Han, and John B Kerr."New gel polyelectrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries."Solid State Ionics 175.1-4 (2004) 713-716. DOI

Liu, Gao, John B Kerr, and Stephen G Johnson."Dark spot formation relative to ITO surface roughness for polyfluorene devices."Synthetic Metals 144.1 (2004) 1-6. DOI

Sun, Xiao-Guang, John B Kerr, Craig L Reeder, Gao Liu, and Yongbong Han."Network Single Ion Conductors Based on Comb-Branched Polyepoxide Ethers and Lithium Bis(allylmalonato)borate."Macromolecules 37.14 (2004) 5133-5135. DOI

Kerr, John B, Yongbong Han, Gao Liu, Craig L Reeder, Jiangbing Xie, and Xiao-Guang Sun."Interfacial behavior of polymer electrolytes."Electrochimica Acta 50 (2004) 235-242. DOI

2003

Kerr, John B, Gao Liu, Larry A Curtiss, and Paul C Redfern."Towards room-temperature performance for lithium-polymer batteries."Electrochimica Acta 48 (2003) 2305-2309.

Fisk, William J, Phillip N Price, David Faulkner, Douglas P Sullivan, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Clifford C Federspiel, Gao Liu, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker productivity and ventilation rate in a call center: Analyses of time-series data for a group of registered nurses." (2003).

2002

Kerr, John B, Steven E Sloop, Gao Liu, Yongbong Han, Jun Hou, and Shanger Wang."From molecular models to system analysis for lithium battery electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 110 (2002) 389-400. DOI

Federspiel, Clifford C, Gao Liu, Maureen Lahiff, David Faulkner, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, William J Fisk, Phillip N Price, and Douglas P Sullivan."Worker Performance and Ventilation: Analyses of Individual Data for Call-Center Workers."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 1 (2002) 796-801.